1. Charles Kenny on development vs. growth (intro plus 184 pp.); Felix Salmon summarizes.
2. Ethicists aren't especially ethical.
3. Reinterpreting Alan Blinder on outsourcing.
4. Titlenomics.
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Irony dictates that preference utilitarians are to be excluded from the set of unethical ethicists.
What Krugman (especially Krugman 1979, 1980) showed was that one does not need macro-level differences to generate trade. Firm-level differences will do.
For that “contribution” he got a Nobel Prize?
Looking at the ethics/ethical behaviour divide (from the student’s POV), I wonder how many ‘Intro to Ethics’ students go in thinking that it’s a self-help course.
“Legal ethics” are code-based in most states. And “businses ethics” is nothing more than following applicable laws.
After studying both, my conclusion was that “business ethicists” were PhDs who wanted to be able to charge lawyer rates, without being lawyers.
“And rapid income growth doesn’t guarantee faster progress. Two things that do increase in line with GDP per capita are consumption and pollution. But across countries, there is little or no relationship between rates of GDP per capita growth and progress in health, education or human rights.”
-Charles Kenny
Does that contradict a point you make in your textbook, that if you want to increase health outcomes, one of the best things you can do is have economic growth?
Looking at the ethics/ethical behaviour divide (from the student’s POV), I wonder how many ‘Intro to Ethics’ students go in thinking that it’s a self-help course.
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