In the West, modernity presents the religion, and particularly Christianity, as a private matter that should be excluded from public life. By extension, most companies, although private institutions generally also consider religion as something confined to the conscience of each person. However, in recent years something is changed. On one hand, a right separation of […]
The Caja Madrid Black Cards: 10 Ethical Questions
Much has been said in the last three weeks of the “tarjetas opacas” (black cards) of the Caja Madrid, now Bankia, or to be precise BFA (Banco Financiero y de Ahorros), which Bankia is the financial subsidiary. In essence the issue concerns the use of opaque (for the Treasury and even for the internal auditors) […]
Bringing Ethics to Accounting, Finance and Banking
Managers, businesspeople, politicians and, of course, academics and researchers should learn from the causes of the crisis and well-known scandals, and reflect on the proper role and ethical implications of finance, banking and accounting. It would therefore be apt to analyze criticism and to present recommendations and alternatives in order to integrate ethics and efficiency, as […]
Economic Freedom in the World: Is it Ethically Significant?
In our culture figures and ranking are quite central, and the economic freedom is not an exception. There are several indexes which try to ranking countries through models nurture by statistic often taken from the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the Economist Intelligence Unit. Two of these indexes are probably the best-known worldwide. In general, their findings are not […]
