The Economist's Oath by George F Demartino
Economists enjoy enormous influence over the life chances of the world's inhabitants, yet do not receive, at any point in their training, any exposure to the professional ethical challenges that their work entails. This lack of attention to professional ethics means that even well-meaning economists will take actions that can cross ethical lines, to the detriment of those whom they seek to serve. The Economist's Oath seeks to initiate a serious conversation among economists interviews have been conducted, there are many opportunities for creative presentation. There is much new material available on innovative forms of presentation developed over the last decade, including interpretive dance and other public performances. 4. Legal considerations: The recent Boston College case, in which the courts have ruled that Irish police should have access to sealed oral history transcripts, has re-focused attention on the problems of protecting donorres trictions. The new edition offers case studies from the past decade. 5. Theory and Memory: As a beginner's manual, Doing Oral History has not dealt extensively with theoretical issues, on the grounds that these emerge best from practice. But the third edition includes the latest thinking about memory and provides a sample of some of the theoretical issues surrounding oral sources. It will include examples of increased studies into catastrophe and trauma, and the specialR prevent avoidable and consequential errors and could provide the communities that economists serve with a standard to which economists could be held accountable.
Of course not all economists have ignored ethical issuesAmong others, Robert Nelson (2001), Deirdre McCloskey (2006) and Paul Heyne (2008) have given thoughtful critiques of theological and ethical issues in the practice of economics. DeMartino takes those arguments a large step forward, however, arguing that economists, in their everyday practice of doing economics, are not ethical. * EH.net *
George F. DeMartino is Professor of International Economics at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780199730568 |
| ISBN 10 | 0199730563 |
| Title | The Economist's Oath |
| Author | George F Demartino |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Year published | 2011-02-03 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
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