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Congratulations to Robert Wechsler on his retirement!

Friday, March 11th, 2016
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City Ethics was in its infancy stage in the early 2000's when I got a letter in the mail. (Yes, an actual handwritten letter.)   "Do you need any help with research?" asked Rob.  "Yes", was the immediate answer and the beginning of a wonderful partnership and friendship with Rob. His first project was the compilation of municipal ethics codes with the view towards synthesizing them into a Model Code.  Not too many people could confront doing such an enormous project, but...

Larry Lessig Defends Concept of Institutional Corruption (May, 2015 Conference)

Friday, May 15th, 2015
cmiller

Larry Lessig's opening talk for the conference on Institutional Corruption (May 1, 2015) is now up on YouTube:  Opening Discussion: Lessig/Thompson    

I was there at the conference and it was a real treat to see Dennis Thompson, founder of the Harvard Ethics Center, and Larry Lessig discuss corruption and potential solutions. Larry advocates changing the system by "...

Conference on Institutional Corruption: Harvard May 1-2, 2015

Saturday, May 9th, 2015
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We have just returned from attending the final conference of the Lab on Institutional Corruption at the EJ Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard.

The kick off presentation was a discussion between Larry Lessig, Director of the Lab and Dennis Thompson, the founder of the Ethics Center at Harvard. The link to this presentation, and all others of the confererence, will be posted on this site soon.  Carla Miller, Founder of City Ethics, presented a workshop on "Innovations in Ethics...

Robert Prentice on the future of ethics training—trends

Thursday, April 30th, 2015
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Robert Prentice, McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin

(Robert has developed an excellent website for teaching ethics: 3 series and 44 videos, including teaching notes. One of the best resources in the country.)

                An important portion of the future of ethics training will be to...

Dan Ariely

Thursday, April 30th, 2015
cmiller

 

James B. Duke Professor of Psychology & Behavioral Economics at Duke University and columnist for The Wall Street Journal

One must know about Dan Ariely's work! see his TED talk: Our Buggy Moral Code. and his webpage.

 

This is an excerpt...

Institutional Corruption: Course summary for ethics professionals

Wednesday, April 29th, 2015
cmiller

Ethical Reasoning: Institutional Corruption was a course held from January 28, 2014 through May 26, 2014 at Harvard College.  It was taught by Lawrence Lessig (Law School) and William E. English.  The course consisted of 26 lectures and accompanying materials.

Course description: 

Institutions make modern life possible by organizing human interactions on a massive scale. We generally benefit from the incentives,...

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