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"When attorney effort is unobservable and certain other simplifying assumptions (such as risk neutrality) hold, it is efficient for an attorney to purchase the rights to a client's legal claim. However, the American Bar Association Model Rules of Professional Conduct prohibit this arrangement. We show that this ethical restriction, which is formally equivalent to requiring a minimum fixed fee of zero, can create economic rents for attorneys, even though they continue to compete along the contingent-fee dimension. The contingent fee is not bid down to the zero-profit level, because such a fee does not induce sufficient attorney effort. We thereby provide a political economy explanation for these restrictions"--Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas web site

We rely on NGOs to monitor the ethical practices of governments and for-profit firms and to undertake many humanitarian tasks that public and private actors will not do. While we are critical of public and private sector failures, we do not reflect enough on the credibility of the NGOs which take their place. Can we be sure that products NGOs label as child-labor free are in fact so, that the coffee labeled as 'fair trade' is farmed in sustainable ways, or that the working conditions monitored by NGOs are safe and that the wages are reasonable? Can we know that humanitarian organizations are, in fact, using our donations to alleviate human suffering rather than pursuing other goals? This book explores the problems of establishing the credibility of NGO activities as they monitor working conditions, human rights and elections and provide finance through microcredit institutions, development aid and emergency assistance

Understanding the challenges and seizing the opportunities to strengthen ethics in organizations and individuals -- A remarkable organization runs into trouble -- Making codes work -- "Your call is very important to us": finding and closing gaps -- Waking the watchdogs: overcoming silence and gaining strength from critics, whistleblowers, and bearers of bad news -- Recognizing and avoiding common stumbles over hueristics and other sources of bias -- Finding moral courage and putting it to work.

Spirituality, Ethics and Care provides guidance on how to integrate spirituality and ethics in professional and voluntary care. The author argues that the strong connections between moral meaning and spirituality are often not reflected in the health and social care literature. Using case studies and examples from everyday situations, such as end of life decisions, conjoined twins, heart conditions, social work, mental health and emergency care practice, the author provides a practical framework for incorporating spirituality into ethical decision-making and care. This book will encourage and

Nanotechnology is a field that we often hear of its name nowadays. Altough what we know about it is soo poor, we admire this field of technlogy, moreover some societies even argues that nanotechnology will cause second endustrial revolution. In addition, nanotechnology makes our basic scientific knowledge upside down and is soo powerfull that it is potent in nearly every scientific field. Thereby, it is imposible to say that nanotechnology; which is soo effective on human and human life; will not cause social and ethical outcomes. In general, the definition of nanotechnology is the reconfiguration of nanomaterials by human; there also are different definitions according to the history of nanotechnology and different point of views. First of all, in comparison to the other tehnology fields, what is the cause of excellence of nanotechnology, what human can do is to foresee the advantages and disadvantages of it, what are the roles of developed and developping countries for the progression of nanotechnology, what is the attitude of nanoethics and what is view of global politics to nanotechological research according to international regulations are all the focus of interests of this study. Last but not least, our apprehension capacity of nanotechnology, our style of adoption and evaluation of it and the way that how we locate nanotechnology in our lifes and ethical values are the other focus of interests.

Today's digital revolution is a worldwide phenomenon, with profound and often differential implications for communities around the world and their relationships to one another. This book presents a new, explicitly international theory of media ethics, incorporating non-Western perspectives and drawing deeply on both moral philosophy and the philosophy of technology. Clifford Christians develops an ethics grounded in three principles - truth, human dignity, and non-violence - and shows how these principles can be applied across a wide range of cases and domains. The book is a guide for media professionals, scholars, and educators who are concerned with the global ramifications of new technologies and with creating a more just world.

This title examines the fields of value theory, normative and applied ethics on the issue of killing animals. It addresses a number of questions: Can painless killing harm or benefit an animal and, if so, why and under what conditions? Can coming into existence harm or benefit an animal? Is killing animals morally acceptable? Should animals have the legal right to life? In addressing these questions, animal rights and animal welfare positions are articulated and debated by some of the foremost thinkers on these issues, with a distinction made between rights-based and utilitarian approaches

Intro -- Introduction -- Entre légalité et légitimité, passé et présent : les ennemis de l'éthique en France et dans le monde -- 1. Introduction -- 2. La problématique « légalité-légitimité » -- 2.1. Légalité et légitimité : deux notions distinctes -- 3. Classification des actions possibles -- 3.1. Les activités normales, évidemment conformes à l'éthique -- 3.2. Les activités partiellement ou totalement inacceptables sur le plan éthique -- 3.3. La zone incertaine -- 4. Légalité et légitimité dans le nouveau contexte global -- 4.1. Un contexte propice aux manquements à l'éthique -- 4.2. La violence légale -- 4.3. L'informalité -- 4.4. La criminalité -- 5. Conclusion : Quelles parades pour l'avenir ? -- L'éthique et la complexité de l'intervention humanitaire -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Définitions -- 2.1. La morale, la déontologie et le moralisme -- 2.2. L'éthique comme dimension de l'action -- 2.3. La complexité du contexte de l'action -- 3. Conclusion -- Le Forum Social Mondial : quel bilan ? Mirage ou rivage de la mouvance altermondialiste ? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Le forum social mondial, origines, organisation et thèmes -- 2.1. La création du FSM -- 2.2. L'organisation du FSM -- 2.3. Les thèmes du FSM -- 3. Le FSM : Rivage de la mouvance altermondialiste -- 3.1. Porto Alegre, la ville mère du FSM : Un laboratoire permanent pour les initiatives de démocratie participative -- 3.2. Vers une nouvelle citoyenneté planétaire -- 3.3. Le FSM comme forum hybride et métissé -- 4. Le FSM : Mirage de la mouvance altermondialiste ? -- 4.1. Une création impérialiste ? -- 4.2. Un apolitisme de façade ? -- 4.3. Une crise identitaire ? -- 4.4. Une parodie de démocratie participative ? -- 5. Conclusion -- Les limites éthiques de la gestion des ressources humaines -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Exploration de pratiques de gestion des ressources humaines (GRH).

Multinational Corporations in Political Environments advances and tests a theory of why foreign corporations leave host states. Theories of international business have often ignored the complexity of corporate decisions about leaving foreign countries, generally assuming that the economic and competitive reasons that prompt multinational corporations to enter host states also explain their subsequent reasons for leaving. Alternatively, this book proposes a theory of how different stakeholders' values and ethics shape multinationals' strategic leaving behaviors. Tested in South Africa when US multinationals were facing diverse pressures from stockholders, governments and consumers to leave, the research provides a prism to isolate how different stakeholders' actions influenced multinationals' behaviors.

Religious and Ethical Perspectives on Global Migration examines the complicated social ethics of migration in today's world. Editors Elizabeth W. Collier and Charles R. Strain bring the perspectives of an international group of scholars toward a theory of justice and ethical understanding for the nearly two hundred million migrants who have left their homes seeking asylum from political persecution, greater freedom and safety, economic opportunity, or reunion with family members.

People have been thinking, writing and proposing legislation about euthanasia for decades. Arguments from either side have been weighted with moral, religious, ethical, social, human and scientific issues. We too debate euthanasia, propose laws which seek to protect that which is sacred to us; life itself, dignity, control, faith, religion, pulling the favours towards and against its use. ; N/A