The In-House Ethicist
The In-House Ethicist provides you new ways of thinking about the moral dilemmas we face when we're at work, out in society, or in the privacy of our own homes. Host John Paul Rollert doesn't give you feel good, cookie-cutter answers or bullet point to-do lists.
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Soon We'll All Be Influencers (opens the original)
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What will the world look like for our grandchildren a century from now? The economist John Maynard Keynes famously asked this question in his 1928 essay, "Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren," and the future he saw included a world of plenty and 15-hour work weeks. In this episode of the In-House Ethicist, John Paul Rollert follows Keynes's lead and looks another 100 years into the future. He envisions a world where brainpower will be passé and most people will struggle to climb the hei
Money On My Mind (opens the original)
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Money weighs on the minds of almost everyone from time to time, but the way a rich person tracks his stock gains and the poor man tallies his pennies is different in degree and kind. In this episode of the In-House Ethicist, John Paul Rollert takes up the different ways in which money can preoccupy us, drawing on insights of writers like John Maynard Keynes, Karl Marx, and William Shakespeare as well as his own experience cleaning dorm rooms in college.
CEO's, You Can Forget about Milton Friedman (opens the original)
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When it was first published in The New York Times in 1970, Milton Friedman's "The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits" heralded a new way of thinking about the mission of a company and helped to shift Corporate America from a stakeholder vision of capitalism to one that gave shareholders pride of place. In this episode of the In-House Ethicist, John Paul Rollert looks at some of the central claims of Friedman's essay and situates it against the backdrop of the Cold War a
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