The Worden Report
Saturday, September 7, 2013

Bank Profits Hit Record as Wages Stagnate in the U.S.: A Tale of Two Cities

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In the United States, executives have been compensated much more than their own non-supervisory workers. This has been so in not only absol...
Monday, August 26, 2013

Political Protests in Wisconsin and the Middle East: A Common Denominator?

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Imagine some of the blue-collar unionists in Wisconsin's Capitol in February, 2011 suddenly "losing it," insulting officers o...
Sunday, August 25, 2013

All-You-Can-Eat Buffets: An Unethical Sandwich?

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Restaurant chains that advertise their “all you can eat” buffets, such as Golden Corral and Old Country Buffet, present us with an interest...
Friday, August 23, 2013

U.S. Justice Department Opposes American-US Air Merger: Justice as Fairness?

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After a decade of “rapid consolidation” in the U.S. airline industry, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit in mid-2013 to block t...
Sunday, August 18, 2013

Rousseau on Inequalities in Society: An Instance of Kantian Enlightenment?

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Kant defines enlightenment as “man's emergence from his inability to use one's own understanding without the guidance of another.” ...
Friday, August 16, 2013

Day of Rage

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Friday, August 16, 2013: A day of anger as proclaimed by Morsi supporters in Egypt. A day of death and carnage. A day of intransigence on b...
Sunday, August 11, 2013

Business, Government, and Society: Making Humans Less Humane?

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Richard Rinaldi , an innovative photographer in New York City, devised an interesting photo series, titled " Touching Strangers ....
Thursday, August 8, 2013

Corporate Social Responsibility and Reputational Capital: JPMorgan Facing Criminal Investigation

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After years of claiming that no criminality had been involved in the securitization and sales of subprime-mortgage-based bonds, the U.S. De...
Friday, August 2, 2013

Halliburton: Organizational Culture and Ethics

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Human beings are moral agents. Generally speaking, we have consciences and a sense of ought , which according to David Hume is not derived ...
Wednesday, July 31, 2013

The Financial Crisis: A Systemic and Ethical Analysis

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According to a study by the Dallas Federal Reserve, the financial crisis of 2007-2009 “was associated with a huge loss of economic output a...
Monday, July 29, 2013

Wall Street As More of the Economy: Unjust and Riskier?

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The financial sector, which includes banks like JPMorgan and insurance companies like AIG, had the fastest earnings growth in the Standard ...
Saturday, July 27, 2013

Obama: Egyptian Coup? What Coup?

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In late July 2013, the Obama administration decided that it was not legally required to determine whether the Egyptian military had led a...
Monday, July 22, 2013

Financial Reform: Did Congress Shoot a Blank?

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On the third anniversary of the Dodd-Frank Act, former U.S. Senator Ted Kaufman (D-DE) penned an excellent yet concise critique of the law’...
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