The Credit Crisis and the Moral Responsibility of Professionals in Finance
Starting from MacIntyre’s virtue ethics, we investigate several codes of conduct of banks to identify the type of virtues that are needed to realize their mission. Based on this analysis, we define three core virtues: honesty, due care, and accuracy. We compare and contrast these codes of conduct wi...
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Journal of business ethics
Year: 2011, Volume: 103, Issue: 4, Pages: 605-619 |
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credit crisis
B financial ethics B Banking B Anglo-Saxon capitalism B MacIntyre B Virtue Ethics B Professional Ethics |
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