Tag: McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society at Stanford University

The Bowen H. McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society at Stanford University has partnered with Boston Review to share content from its fellows and guest lecturers. The Center’s mission is to bring ethical reflection to bear on important social problems through research, teaching, and engagement.

Articles tagged with mccoy-family-center-for-ethics-in-society-at-stanford-university

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Deborah Chasman

Our Collaboration with the Stanford Ethics Center

The Bowen H. McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society at Stanford University has partnered with Boston Review to share content from its fellows and guest lecturers.

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Rob Reich

Much Ado About MOOCs

We should examine the potential of online learning with an open mind.

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Rob Reich

What Are Foundations For?

The modern foundation is an institutional oddity in a democracy. A democratic society is committed to the equality of citizens, but foundations are the voice of plutocracy.

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David V. Johnson

Lives of the Moral Saints

An Interview with Larissa MacFarquhar on extreme moral virtue.

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David B. Grusky Emmanuel Saez

Taxing Away Inequality

Emmanuel Saez and David Grusky discuss why taxation, though a blunt instrument, might be the best available solution.

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Gavin Jones

An Embarrassment of Riches

Writers of the Gilded Age unsettled the comfortable relations between failure and poverty, wealth and success.

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Debra Satz David B. Grusky Rob Reich Doug McAdam

Occupy the Future

The writers—including Nobel Laureate in Economics Kenneth Arrow and bestselling authors Paul and Anne Ehrlich—lay out what our country’s principles are, whether we’re living up to them, and what can be done to bring our institutions into better alignment with them.

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Richard White

Before Greed

There was a time when Americans valued "competency" over riches and saw wealth as the cause of poverty.

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