Business Ethics After the Global Financial Crisis

Christopher Cowton is Professor of Financial Ethics and former Dean at Huddersfield Business School, University of Huddersfield, UK.James Dempsey was, from 2012 to 2015, Research Fellow on the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council major project, FinCris, on moral responsibilities in the financial crisis. He started his own business in 2016, which he endeavours to run ethically. Tom Sorell is Professor of Politics and Philosophy at the University of Warwick, UK, where he leads the Interdisciplinary Ethics Research Group. He led the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council major project, FinCris, on responsibilities in the financial crisis (2013-2016).

• 1. IntroductionChristopher Cowton, James Dempsey and Tom Sorell2. Is financialisation a vice? Perspectives from virtue ethics and Catholic Social TeachingAlejo José G. Sison and Ignacio Ferrero3. On the morality of banking, the exploitation tradition and the new challenges of the global financial crisisAdrian Walsh4. How competition harmed banking: the need for a Pelican GambitThomas Donaldson5. Contemporary laws and regulation: an argument for less law, more justiceRonald Duska and Tara Radin6. Freedom in finance: the importance of epistemic virtues and interlucent communicationBoudewijn de Bruin and Richard Endörfer7. Aristotelian lessons after the global financial crisis: banking, responsibility, culture and professional bodiesChristopher Megone8. Professional responsibility and the banksChristopher Cowton9. Liability for corporate wrongdoingJames Dempsey10. The bankers and the ‘nameless virtue’Tom Sorell11. Moralising economic desertAlexander Andersson and Joakim Sandberg