Tuesday, July 25, 2017

Cases of Unethical Business: A Malignant Mentality of Mendacity

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The book, Cases of Unethical Business: A Malignant Mentality of Mendacity , presents a number of cases of unethical conduct at American com...
Saturday, July 22, 2017

Sitting U.S. Presidents Are Not above the Law

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Imagine the following hypothetical: a U.S. president, while in office, sneaks out of the White House in a tunnel, walks a few blocks furthe...
Thursday, July 20, 2017

The Unenforceable E.U. as Poland Legislates to End its Judiciary’s Independence

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With a state government rapidly moving on legislation that would end the independence of that state’s judiciary, the E.U. Commission announ...

Essays on the E.U. Political Economy: Federalism and the Debt Crisis

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The collection of essays comprising The E.U. Political Economy looks broadly at the E.U.'s federal system, with particular attention t...
Wednesday, July 19, 2017

Referendum on Euro in Latvia: Core of Europe

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Two decades after leaving the Soviet Union, Latvia was in 2012 an E.U. state preparing to adopt the euro currency. “We want to be a part ...

The Regensburg Domspatzen: Systemic Abuse of Kids in an Established Religious Institution

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The utility from beautiful music for many does not justify the physical and sexual abuse of a relative few. Even though utilitarianism goes...
Tuesday, July 18, 2017

U.S. Senators: Falling Short in Representing their States

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Like the European Council of the E.U., the U.S. Senate has polities rather than citizens as represented members. That is to say, in both ca...
Friday, July 14, 2017

Spiritual Leadership in Business: Transcending the Ethical

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The spiritual business leader who searches for personal and profes-sional integration is the chief beneficiary of this booklet, which can a...

Essays on the Financial Crisis

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The financial crisis that peaked in the United States during the fall of 2008 is an excellent case study of what can go wrong with leadersh...

Essays on Two Federal Empires

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This collection of essays suggests that the E.U. and U.S. are both cases of modern federalism at the empire political-level and scale. Dist...
Monday, July 3, 2017

Bribery at Barclays: Can an Unethical Culture Be Changed?

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Amid the financial crisis in 2008, Barclays raised $15 billion from Qatar and other investors. The infusion of capital saved the European b...
Wednesday, June 28, 2017

E.S.G. in the Boardroom: A Recipe for Confusion

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What would business do without its faddish buzzwords? Is the bottom-line really so boring? Transformational leadership was once in vague, ...

The E.U. Goes After Google: Where Was the U.S.?

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In fining Google a record 2.4 billion euros (2.7 billion dollars) in June, 2017, for unfairly favoring its advertisers in its online shoppi...
Monday, June 26, 2017

Religion as Metaphysics: A Category Mistake

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The claim that God is real, or even that God's existence is reality, is problematic chiefly because it incurs the category mistake of t...

Hedge Fund Set to Hack Nestlé Up: A Case of Sensationalistic Over-Kill

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Does the fact that an earnings-per-share figure has not meaningfully improved over, say, five years justify an overhaul pushed by a hedge-f...