The review itself is in Nature and requires login, but the short article about the review is here: Robot advances raise ethical, cultural questions for society

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The link to the review is here: The invisible hand that binds us all

Willetts’s bottom line:

Like other great controversialists, Mr Nowak moves from decision matrices to emotive moral language. He says the best strategy is to be hopeful, generous and forgiving. Hopeful means you first try co-operation – your opening move should be positive. Generous means not to be as concerned where you are relative to others as to obscure your own gains from interaction even if they are more modest. Forgiving means if someone else defects, you do not defect straightaway but try to re-establish co-operation, not least because it could have been an accidental mistake.
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We cannot just offer freedom, opportunity and choice without also recognising the power of belonging, commitment and roots. But all politicians can draw inspiration and ideas from the intellectual resources of this exciting approach.

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The movie is based largely on Markopolos’s own book, No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller

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It’s a book that, despite some admirable ambitions, unfortunately doesn’t deliver on its promises.

The summary is posted on my Business Ethics blog. See: Managing for Stakeholders (Book Review)

The link to the review is here: Ethics become blurred when end justifies the means

Schachter’s bottom line:

This book is a step toward that training, bringing together a host of studies by the authors and others that probe how easy it is for us act less ethically than we would like. The book also shows how organizations can take advantage of these findings in behavioural ethics to change their informal culture and reduce the chances that they will follow the News of the World into oblivion.

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The link to the review is here: The Moral Behind All the Numbers

Koehn’s bottom line:

In many respects, the author has offered up a set of musings, many of which are energetic and enlightening in their appeal to the humanities. But the work’s contributions do not come cheap. Readers have to endure not only the absence of direction and analytic argument, but also frequent redundancies and narrative switchbacks. It all adds up to a worthy but exhausting journey.

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The link to the review is here: Book Review: Social Ethics in the Making

Strieter’s bottom line:

Dorrein’s thought-provoking book has significance for progressives of every stripe. It is particularly useful for students and scholars, but it is eminently readable and can fill an important gap in the thought of people on the Left. For those who think that American Christianity is represented only by the dangerous antics of the religious Right, it will offer hope that there are many progressive people in faith communities with whom we can find common cause.

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The link to the review is here: The Right Thing – an everyday guide to ethics in business

Thorn’s bottom line:

Throughout this book, which is a model of clarity without any preaching, there are examples of many of the ethical dilemmas we might face, in recruitment, working with and managing others, in appraisals and in commerce. It should be read by anyone in work, and I suggest, often re-read.

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The link to the review is here: REVIEW — Morality, Moral Luck and Responsibility: Fortune’s Web

Nielsen’s bottom line:

In short: Athanassoulis’ book represents a valuable and historically informed contribution to the discussion of moral luck. The discussions of Kant and Aristotle are adequate given the aim and scope of the book, but do not provide any new insights into the central doctrines of these two thinkers. But that is not necessarily a problem since exegesis is not the primary purpose of the book.
Though the notion of moral luck is not nearly as popular or central for discussions within moral philosophy as it was a decade ago, the problems raised by this concept and the question of whether contingent factors outside the agent’s own control can and should influence our moral assessment of the agent, remain as pressing as ever. Athanassoulis’ books should be read as an attempt to provide us with a better, more adequate, grasp of this question, and as such it is quite successful.

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The link to the review is here: Book review: The story of Henrietta Lacks and her special cell strain
The review begins like this:

Within our cells are codes that offer great detail on who we are, how we will respond to outside infections and stimuli and what we will pass on to our children. Information stored within our cells is very valuable, not only to the person carrying the cells but to scientists seeking to study the intricacies of these tiny particles.

Rebecca Skloot traces the story of one such cell line that gained both value and renown and also became embroiled in controversy in her remarkable work, “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.”

Causey’s bottom line:

This is therefore not a book just for ethicists, lawyers, medical researchers or urban historians. This is a chronicle that demands to be read, thought through and reckoned with by us all.

You can buy the book on Amazon, by clicking here: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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