Showing posts with label ethics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ethics. Show all posts
Tuesday, 11 July 2017

Let's not let politicians get away with crying 'immoral' to justify their prejudices

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It is always a worry when politicians start invoking morality in the promotion of their particular policy or prejudice. It doesn't matte...
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Friday, 27 January 2017

On the moral rightness of markets

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This quotation comes , via Cafe Hayek, from Pope John Paul II's encyclical Centesimus Annus from 1991: In this expanding economic commu...
Monday, 15 February 2016

Banning political campaigns with public funds - it's because it's not your money

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**** The government has told public bodies that they can't use procurement as a tool of political campaigning. There has been the predic...
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Wednesday, 23 September 2015

Ad-blockers may be convenient but they're not ethical - or unethical for that matter

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**** It had to happen didn't it . I mean the extension of the long war against commercial communication - advertising to you and I - i...
Friday, 13 February 2015

Morals, ethics and the matter of paying taxes

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As is the case with much of our national political discourse, the recent tit-for-tat over taxation is more notable for its sound and fury ...
Saturday, 15 March 2014

Why don't people complain about bad public services?

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**** Perhaps it's the futility of the exercise? Nearly half of people who complained about problems with a public service in the p...
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Tuesday, 18 June 2013

Cooperative chutzpah..

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**** It makes me smile to hear the Coop justify its bail out and fire sale: “Lets remember that the bank has always been a PLC and it a...
Saturday, 29 December 2012

Lawyers - the world's most unethical marketers?

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**** Over the past fortnight or so we have be somewhat plagued by telephone calls seeking to flog us something. And the thing that connect...
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Tuesday, 24 July 2012

Enough of the moralising - people avoid taxes because they are too high.

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**** There is no point at which paying or not paying taxes is a matter of morals. There may be some ethical questions involved – compl...
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Sunday, 6 November 2011

On corporate social responsiblity...

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I’ve always had something of a problem with “corporate social responsibility” – the idea that business has a wider duty beyond its purpose...
Monday, 19 July 2010

Does research funding make scientists unethical?

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**** Today’s Times makes a mountain from the wholly unsurprising news that big oil companies have funded research organisations and lobbyist...
Sunday, 20 June 2010

Banks, budgets and the Archbishop calling for unethical behaviour

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**** Every now and then national newspapers – in what I guess is some form of social service – hand over prominent columns to senior churchm...
Thursday, 10 June 2010

A mad economist writes (some tips on policy-making from over the pond)

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**** The Whited Sepulchre reminds us – and a welcome reminder it is to – about some economic truths that too many commenters ignore. The g...
Thursday, 15 October 2009

20 reasons why we get the MPs we deserve.

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Have you ever: 1. Inflated an insurance claim 2. Claimed expenses for something you would have paid for regardless 3. Not owned up to being ...
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