Practicing Professional Ethics in Economics and Public Policy
This volume explores the professional ethics of economists and public policy professionals. Using terms and methods familiar to the reader, the book goes beyond the typical narrative of economics and morality to walk the professional through the process o
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Practicing Professional Ethics in Economics and Public Policy
Practicing Professional Ethics in Economics and Public Policy
Elizabeth A.M. Searing • Donald R. Searing Editors
Practicing Professional Ethics in Economics and Public Policy
Editors Elizabeth A.M. Searing Department of Public Administration and Policy Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy University at Albany – State University of New York Albany, New York, USA
Donald R. Searing Syncere Systems Altamont, NY, USA
ISBN 978-94-017-7305-8 ISBN 978-94-017-7306-5 DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-7306-5
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This book is dedicated to the late Woods Bowman, A scholar, friend, and inspiration to all who knew him
Preface
As I write this, I am sitting at an inn in Chitipa, Malawi. Chitipa is the northernmost district in this African country, sharing borders with both Tanzania and Zambia; citizens here endure higher levels of poverty and restricted access to basic services even compared to the rest of Malawi, which ranked 171 out of 187 countries in the Human Development Index in 2011 (United Nations Development Programme, 2011). I am here working with a nonprofit that was formed when a large INGO pulled out after a completed project, leaving an extensive network of over 300 churches to deliver a wide swath of human services. Since then, the churches have mobilized within their own NGO and expanded the original scope beyond even the boundaries of the original project, motivated by the knowledge that they are improving their own families and neighbors. The electricity has gone out, as it is wont to do. The generator will kick in soon, which is a luxury here, but a necessary business expe
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