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Dropout of the Electoral College
While there are plenty of things I would like to change in this world (many have already been covered), I’m going to go with abolish the electoral college in this post.
Posted in Cases (Real World), Equality, Government
Tagged Election, Electoral College, National Popular Vote, United States
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Trashy Fines
Since most of the obvious topics (parking, food) have been hit on so far. I’ll tackle another topic, albeit one I haven’t touched on for a few years: Bucknell recycling fines.
Sad Times in Happy Valley
*Jordi, I’ll post my actual post later, just thought this was important.* We’ve talked about how to act morally, ethically, or any way you want to call acting fair and oftentimes we’re talking about salaries or outsourcing and its effects. … Continue reading
Posted in Cases (Real World), Ethics, Society, Uncategorized
Tagged Jerry Sandusky, Joe Paterno, Pennsylvania State University, The Patriot-News
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The Justice Leagues
Distributive justice is a branch of societal ethics related to whether an allocation of goods and wealth can be considered fair to society and its constituents. Three major theories proposed to answer this question are John Rawls’ Justice as Fairness, … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Cases (Real World), Equality, Ethics, Social Science
Tagged Distributive Justice, inequality, John Rawls, Michael Walzer, Robert Nozick, sports
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These Three Questions
Presented without comment.
Posted in Cases (Real World), Class, Equality, Social Science, Uncategorized
Tagged 3 Questions, Kiva, Occupy Wall Street, Tea Party
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Levees and Trains and Bridges. Oh My!
Now I’m going to be right up front about this, as a Civil Engineer, there is an inherent bias in what I’m about to write (right Jordi?).
Does Film Noir Make it Automatically Fancy?
Sunday afternoon I walked down to the Campus Theatre to take in Sunset Boulevard. Honestly, I am not sure what I took away from the movie itself. It was an odd film, but I guess that’s why it’s designated as … Continue reading
Posted in For Fun
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Wilt Chamberlain is Overrated
For a little while now, I’ve been toiling around with why I don’t like Nozick’s example of Wilt Chamberlain’s 25 cent ticket premium for distributive justice. Frankly, I think it comes down to that while basketball fans (or just the … Continue reading
Posted in Cases (Real World), Equality, Ethics, Society
Tagged Distributive Justice, Libertarianism, Premier League, Robert Nozick, Wilt Chamberlain
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The $1 CEO
This past week Meg Whitman (formerly CEO of eBay) was hired to take over as CEO of Hewlett-Packard (HP). In light of the Harvard article by former P&G CEO A.G. Lafley, I thought it was interesting when it was announced … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Cases (Real World), Equality
Tagged CEO, corporate responsibility, Corporations, Meg Whitman
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“We Have a Cruel Existence”
The words of my Dad about auditing. I thought the interpretation of the Ernst & Young audits in the Nike case by activists and the public was an interesting one. Essentially the feeling was that any audit or report brought … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Government, Society
Tagged Audits, Business, corporate responsibility, Credit Agencies, Nike
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A Billion Here, A Billion There
About an hour before our last class this story broke… Which I thought was quite relevant considering our investigations into AIG and Enron. I’m going to focus on the second Forbes article which talks about some of the pseudo-hypocrisy involving alleged … Continue reading
Posted in Cases (Real World), Class, Ethics
Tagged Ethics, Fail, finance, Money, UBS
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Conflicts of Interest
After reading the The Rise and Fall of Enron (B), it is remarkable how potential issues were just glossed over when it came senior management officials. Andrew Fastow (CFO) was the most obvious example of this in his role in … Continue reading
The Perfect Solution of All Economics
Recently, the central bankers of the Fed, IMF, and the European Central Bank took their talents to Jackson Hole, WY to try and address the world’s current economic climate. The result: blame it on the governments’. Can you blame them? … Continue reading
