Showing posts with label ethics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ethics. Show all posts
Thursday, November 21, 2024

If I don't do it someone else will: markets and morals

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  Here's a paper reporting an experiment that suggests that people are more willing to ignore the negative externalities they impose on ...
Sunday, November 10, 2024

Peter Singer interview in the NYT

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  The NYT interviews the eminent philosopher: Peter Singer Wants to Shatter Your Moral Complacency   By David Marchese Q. "I think of y...
Saturday, July 6, 2024

Morals and the limits of markets, WZB Berlin, 11 - 12 July 2024

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  Here's a conference that looks interesting: Morals and the limits of markets , WZB Berlin, 11 - 12 July 2024 Organizers:  Hande Erkut ...
Saturday, June 8, 2024

The ethics of field experiments in Economics, in the Financial Times

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  The Financial Times has a column about the recent twitter (X) discussion concerning our paper  Social Media and Job Market Success: A Fiel...
Thursday, May 23, 2024

Social Media and Job Market Success: A Field Experiment on Twitter, by Qiu, Chen, Cohn, and Roth

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  Here's a new working paper on SSRN: Social Media and Job Market Success: A Field Experiment on Twitter, by Jingyi Qiu, Yan Chen, Alai...
Wednesday, April 24, 2024

The Ethical Limits of Markets by Kim Krawiec

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 Here's a new summary by one of the leading scholars of "taboo trades." Kimberly D. Krawiec, " The Ethical Limits of Mark...
Monday, January 29, 2024

"There are tradeoffs everywhere" Alfred Spector on artificial intelligence.

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  Alfred Spector has written an article called  : Gaining Benefit from AI and   Data Science: A Three-Part Framework . Among other things,...
Sunday, October 22, 2023

Markets, Virtues and Ethics

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  Do markets complement virtues, or sideline them?  Here's another entry into that discussion. Reese, A., Pies, I. Solidarity Among Stra...
Sunday, May 14, 2023

Morality in Economics, as viewed from Sociology (Georg Kanitsar in European J. of Sociology)

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Georg Kanitsar , a young sociologist, undertakes the task of looking at how economists think about morality (with a focus on experimental an...
Sunday, January 8, 2023

Moral certainties versus moral tradeoffs

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  An article and a commentary in PNAS raise the possibility that  economists and psychologists and moral philosophers concerned with morally...
Monday, September 19, 2022

Crowdsourcing organ transplant ethics

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 In Slate, an upbeat article about the ethical issues associated with deceased organ allocation and (before that) access to dialysis, and th...
Monday, June 27, 2022

A Forum on Kidneys for Sale in Iran, in Transplant International

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 Just published in Transplant International  (which is the journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation), is a paper describing...
Thursday, March 10, 2022

David Bennet Sr., who lived for two months with a transplanted pig heart, RIP

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 Xenotransplants from pigs are probably here to stay, but are also not quite here yet, and may not be for some time. Yesterday's NY Time...
Tuesday, July 27, 2021

Emergency decision making and medical ethics for breakfast

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  Saturday morning breakfast cereal (SMBC) has hidden a message for us here:
Friday, March 26, 2021

Ethical payment for research participation

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  Discussions of ethical questions turn out to have less math or data than other discussions, but more, well, discussion...  Here's our ...
Monday, March 1, 2021

Compensating challenge vaccine trial participants: further discussion in the American Journal of Bioethics

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  The AJB invites commentaries on its target articles, and the comments on our article on payments in human infection challenge trials have ...