Job opening: Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor of Business Ethics, with a specialization in Ethics in Finance

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EDHEC Business School in Nice, France (www.edhec.edu/en), is is recruiting an Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor of Business Ethics, with a specialization in Ethics in Finance. This position requires a strong track record in research. The successful candidate can provide evidence of publications in top-tier academic journals, is expected to actively teach in EDHEC programs at graduate and undergraduate level, and to fully participate to the EDHEC agenda in Pedagogical Innovations by implementing innovative and active learning approaches. Ability/experience in blended learning and/or e-learning is a plus.
Location will be on the Nice campus.

About EDHEC
As part of its strategic development, EDHEC is looking ahead to 2050 – a pivotal year for humanity marked by critical challenges such as reducing carbon emissions, protecting biodiversity, addressing inequality, and ensuring universal access to education. By 2050, EDHEC will be graduating students born during the current strategic cycle – young people whose world will depend on the decisions made today.
To maximize its societal impact, EDHEC has structured its plan around three strategic priorities: rethinking business models for the common good (I), equipping students to drive transformation (II), and accelerating the development of climate finance (III).
The “Generations 2050” plan (2024–2028) is backed by a €270 million investment, including €112 million dedicated to the creation of 90,000 m² of Share & Care campuses.

Qualifications
* Ph.D. degree
* Evidence of publications in top-tier international journals
* Demonstrated ability to teach in academic programs at graduate and undergraduate level
* High capacity to develop pedagogical innovation
* Energy, dynamism, conviction, open-minded, team-player
* Desire to actively engage in all areas of faculty life
* Personal and professional ethics
* Excellent communication skills
* Visibility in the media is a plus

At EDHEC, we put diversity at the heart of our practices and know the value of building an inclusive and equitable workplace. Passionate about making an impact on society, we aim to build a team of colleagues representative of the diversity in our communities, and thus strongly encourage all people to apply.
Candidates interested in applying for this position are invited to send a cover letter, a resume, a list of publications, a list of classes taught (and evaluations) and the names and contact information of two referees at Recrutementsprofs2@edhec.edu.
Inquiries can be addressed to Inge DE CLIPPELEER, Head of the Management and Humanities Department, at inge.declippeleer@edhec.edu

Applications will be considered until the positions are filled or February 28, 2026.

Call for Papers: ‘Responsible Economics: Models, Evidence, and Expertise’

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Special Issue of the Journal of Economic Methodology, Guest Editor: Caterina Marchionni, deadline: June 13th, 2025

Economics has a significant influence on our societies, shaping worldviews and public policies both intentionally and unintentionally. With this influence comes profound responsibilities. But what exactly is the nature of these responsibilities? How should they be fulfilled, and how should they be distributed among the various actors who mediate the impact of economics on society? And most importantly, how do they constrain or interact with the epistemic duties of economists?

While epistemological questions surrounding economic models, evidence, and expertise are now well-established within the philosophy of economics, discussions of the moral and social responsibilities of economists in their various roles (modellers, consultants, advisors, etc.) as well as the role of values and interests in economics have lagged behind, often fragmented across distinct areas of inquiry. This JEM special issue seeks to bridge this gap by bringing together diverse perspectives on the following themes, broadly understood:
• Economics in society: its impact and its responsibilities
• The role of responsibility in guiding economic behavior and policymaking
• Ethical issues in science communication and economic advice
• Responsible practices in economic modeling and policy-making
• Responsible evidence-based economic policy
• Responsible and trustworthy expertise
• Normative analyses of performativity of economics science
• Economics and harm: the harm caused by economics and the economics of harm
• Epistemic (in)justice in economics and economic policymaking
• Social justice and economics
• Fairness in economics and economic policy

We encourage contributions that approach these topics from a variety of disciplinary, theoretical, and methodological perspectives.
Submission Deadline: June 13th, 2025. To submit your paper, please follow the instructions below.
For information please contact caterina.marchionni@helsinki.fi

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Researcher in Financial Ethics, especially Sustainable Finance (full time, permanent)

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The University of Gothenburg, Sweden, is currently advertising a position as Researcher in Practical Philosophy with a focus on Financial Ethics. The position is full time and permanent. The researcher is expected to spend most of his or her employment on research within the projects currently active in the Financial Ethics Research Group, which primarily pertain to sustainable finance. Over time, the researcher is also expected to contribute to the development of new projects on similar or adjacent research questions.

The Financial Ethics Research Group is a long-term part of the philosophy department and consists in philosophers interested in various ethical and political issues raised by the financial system. The group is financed by a stream of external research projects. More specifically, we are currently engaged in four projects that concern the role of financial markets in sustainable development: Sustainable Finance Lab (Vinnova), Mistra Finance to Revive Biodiversity (Mistra), Science-Based Metrics for Sustainable Finance (Vinnova) and The Symbolism of Climate-Friendly Financial Decisions (Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation). Project leader is Joakim Sandberg, professor of practical philosophy.

To be eligible for this position the applicant must have completed a doctoral degree or equivalent in an area that is suitable for the job (roughly in philosophy, politics or economics). Most important in the assessment of the applicants is their scientific skill, where particular weight will be given to academic publications and paper drafts. Furthermore, priority will be given to applicants whose competence or work strengthens the Financial Ethics Research Group and contributes to its current projects.

For more information, see the following link: Göteborgs universitet | Researcher in Practical Philosophy with a focus on Financial Ethics (reachmee.com)

Applications must be received by: August 15th, 2024

Call for Applications – Workshop on Advancing the Understanding of Everyday Financial Risk through Intersectionality

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7th – 8th November 2024, Goldsmiths University of London

This interdisciplinary workshop will bring together scholars from diverse disciplines who research different experiences of financial risk in everyday life, including (but not limited to) across the axes of gender, race and socio-economic status. In many countries, the extent of financial risk faced by people in their everyday life is increasing, as public welfare systems are rolled back with individuals expected to manage shocks such as unemployment, ill health, and retirement through financial products, including insurance plans, pension schemes, mortgages and investments. There is a growing awareness that the increasing individual responsibility to manage financial risk leads to unequal outcomes, yet the intersectional dimensions of who is exposed to financial risk in their everyday lives, and the consequences of this exposure, remain underexplored. The workshop will help to advance the understanding of intersectional experiences and consequences of financialization. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Debt and credit
  • Pension provision
  • Investment and asset accumulation
  • Student debt
  • Housing
  • Practices of financial management
  • Other engagements with forms of financial risk in everyday life

The workshop will (a) provide the foundation for generating a policy brief on these topics and (b) lead to the publication of a collection of papers as a special issue in a journal such as Finance and Society, for those interested in contributing.

Early career and mid-career scholars, as well as more established scholars, from diverse disciplinary backgrounds and internationally based are encouraged to apply.  We have limited travel stipends for scholars who may not have institutional funding to be able to attend the workshop. If you want to be considered for a travel stipend, please note this when sending your application. For further information and inquiries, please contact us.

To apply to the workshop, please submit an abstract of the research you would like to present(up to 200 words) and a motivation statement for your application, explaining why you would like to join the workshop (up to 200 words) to h.james1@aston.ac.uk

Workshop participants will be expected to share their work and read others’ beforehand so that the workshop is dedicated to in-depth discussions. However, we do not require fully written papers and will provide information about potential formats for sharing work in progress.

The deadline for applications is July 1st 2024. Successful candidates will be notified by the end of June 2024. The workshop is organised by Ariane Agunsoye, Kate Padgett Walsh and Hayley James, and is funded by the ISRF Flexible Grants for Small Groups Awards (FG10).

In Conversation: Exploring the Philosophy of Money and Finance

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A new and thought-provoking interview series @ Phinance – the Philosophy and Finance Network

We are pleased to announce the launch of a new interview series: “In Conversation: Exploring the Philosophy of Money and Finance”. The series kicks off with a selection of esteemed contributors to the recently published book, The Philosophy of Money and Finance (OUP, 2024).

Each interview will be followed by a live debate, encouraging active audience participation. The sessions (interview plus debate) will be 30 minutes long.

chair: Emiliano Ippoliti (Sapienza University of Rome)

organization: Emiliano Ippoliti (Sapienza University of Rome); Joakim Sandberg (University of Gothenburg); Lisa Warenski (CUNY Graduate Center and University of Connecticut)

Interviews Schedule

1. “Cryptocurrency: Commodity or Credit?”
Asya Passinsky (Central European University in Vienna)
Interviewer: Graham Hubbs (University of Idaho)
Date: 29 May 2024, 18:00 CET
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Abstract: To this day, many theorists regard the commodity theory and the credit theory as the two main rival accounts of the nature of money. Yet cryptocurrency has revolutionized the institution of money in ways that most commodity and credit theorists could hardly have anticipated. Assuming that cryptocurrency is a new form of money, the question arises whether the commodity and credit theories can adequately account for it. This talk argues that they cannot. It first offers an interpretation of the commodity and credit theories according to which these theories uphold differing claims about the origin of money, the ontology of money, and the function of money. It then argues that thus understood, neither theory can accommodate cryptocurrency. Finally, it proposes a novel hybrid hylomorphic account of money which draws on aspects of both the commodity and credit theories, and it argues that this hybrid account can accommodate cryptocurrency.

2. “Money in the Social Contract”
Aaron James (University of California, Irvine)
Interviewer: Richard Endörfer (University of Gothenburg)
Date: 17 June 2024, 18:00 CET
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Abstract: Philosophers tend to assume that money has only an instrumental relation to state legitimacy. This discussion explains how money raises state legitimacy issues of its own. Assuming a credit/debt theory of money, the state can be seen as an active participant in a credit economy of its own making. Insofar as a state issues or recognizes a money as a means of ruling people’s lives, it is subject to promissory requirements of redemption.  This has significant implications for its legitimate and equitable management of a modern economy, the centerpiece of a social compact.

3. “Climate Change and Reflexive Law: The EU Sustainable Finance Action Plan”
Boudewijn de Bruin (University of Groningen)
Interviewer: Lisa Warenski (CUNY Graduate Center and University of Connecticut)
Date: 23 September 2024, 18:00 CET
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Abstract: This talk examines the instruments suggested by the key policy document driving sustainable finance in the European Union, the Action Plan on Financing Sustainable Growth. It uses a reflexive law approach coupled with insights from epistemology. The chapter first discusses the Action Plan and the concept of reflexive law (which focuses on such epistemic instruments as disclosure, reporting, and labelling). It discusses a number of challenges the plan faces (about, e.g., investor ignorance, long-termism, scenario analysis, accounting standards). It then introduces an alternative to reflexive law (called “epistemic law”), and argues that disclosure, reporting, and labelling improve by taking into account insights from epistemology and social science concerning the form and content of information. The talk’s recommendation is, in a slogan, to provide different information, and to provide information differently.

4. “Credit and Distributive Justice”
Marco Meyer (University of Hamburg)
Interviewer: Lisa Warenski (CUNY Graduate Center and University of Connecticut)
Date: 08 October 2024, 18:00 CET
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Abstract: The author argues that the credit system may improve distributive justice, but only indirectly, via job creation and government spending. The reason for this is that cheap credit on commercial terms is only available to people in the upper half of the wealth distribution. By contrast, the forms of credit available more widely are too expensive to make taking out credit a realistic option to escape poverty for most. However, credit can improve distributive justice indirectly, if entrepreneurs and corporations borrow for purposes that create jobs, or states spend borrowed funds on programs that address poverty or inequality. For these reasons, the author suggests that improving access to credit is less important from the perspective of distributive justice than how the credit system interacts with the tax system and labor laws.

Book Salon on Sociology and Political Economy of Finance

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Earlier this summer, Daniel Beunza and Pierre Christian-Fink organized an online “book salon” on recent sociological treatments of finance. Hosted by the Program on Law and Political Economy, Harvard Law School. They say:

Financial sociologists contribute important insights to analyses of today’s political economy. This event convenes the authors of nine recent books – all published since 2020 – into a series of panel conversations. The first panel will explore moral questions in the legal gray areas within financial markets that are variously considered to have normative import or not. The second panel will investigate how central bankers and organizers of financial markets make their projects visible to some members of society but not others. The third and final panel will ask which elements of the current financial system are roadblocks on the path to a new democratic political economy, and which ones can be leveraged to achieve a more equitable, inclusive, and sustainable society.

Participating authors: Jakob Feinig, Kimberly Kay Hoang, Simone Polillo, Donald MacKenzie, Philip Roscoe, Leon Wansleben, Fred Block and Robert Hockett, Terri Friedline, Robert Meister.

Recordings of the event are now available here: https://lpe.law.harvard.edu/events/finance-book-salon/

Profit-Seeking, Self-Interest, And Virtue

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This is a commentary on: Munger, Michael C. and Russell, Daniel C. 2018. “Can Profit Seekers be Virtuous.” In The Routledge Companion to Business Ethics, eds. E. Heath, B. Kaldis, and A. Marcoux. New York, NY: Routledge. 113–130.

Written by Santiago Mejia, Assistant Professor of Law and Ethics at Fordham University, New York.

Abstract

Michael Munger and Dan Russell lay out three conditions that are supposed to guarantee that a profit-seeker, even one who seeks extraordinary profits, can be virtuous. While their account provides a valuable starting point, it would be strengthened by recognizing that a profit-seeker can only be virtuous if she 1) uses her profits virtuously, 2) is not merely motivated by her own narrow self-interest, 3) displays virtues such as justice and beneficence in the exchanges that lead to her profits, and 4) displays virtue in other realms of her life.

“If we make money the object of man-training, we shall develop money-makers but not necessarily men…” (W.E.B Du Bois, 1903)

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Financial Ethics Workshop – Call for Abstracts

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The Financial Ethics Research Group at University of Gothenburg are pleased to invite abstract submissions for an in-person workshop. It will be held on June 2nd and 3rd at the Humanities Building, University of Gothenburg.

Confirmed speakers:
John Broome (Oxford)
Peter Dietsch (University of Victoria)
Alexander Douglas (St. Andrews)
Kate Padgett-Walsh (Iowa State)
Lisa Warenski (University of Connecticut/CUNY Graduate Center)

This workshop seeks to bring together philosophers and philosophically-minded academics from associated disciplines (e.g. finance, political science, economics, sustainability) working on questions of financial ethics. We invite submissions on all kinds of ethical or political issues raised by money and finance (broadly construed) – including topics such as sustainable finance, socially responsible investing, the ethics of debt, financial fraud, microfinance and global justice, the politics of central banking, and the philosophy of monetary systems.

To submit an abstract, please email tadhg.olaoghaire@gu.se. Abstracts should be no longer than 500 words. Abstracts should be anonymised, suitable for blind review, and include a separate title page listing author name, institution, paper title, and the author’s contact information. If accepted, talks should aim to be approximately 25-30 minutes long, not inclusive of Q&A.

We strongly encourage PhD students and early-career scholars from underrepresented backgrounds to apply. We have a limited budget for providing financial support for travel and accommodation. 

The deadline for submitting abstracts is 26th March. We aim to let applicants know whether their abstract has been accepted within 7-10 days.

For more information, please contact tadhg.olaoghaire@gu.se.

Doctoral position on biodiversity and the economy

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University of Gothenburg, Sweden, is seeking to hire a (fully salaried) doctoral candidate in the intersection of environmental and economic ethics. The candidate will join the Financial Ethics Research Group which consists of philosophers and economists dedicated to ethical and political issues raised by the financial system (in the broadest sense). More specifically, the candidate will be connected to the research program Mistra Finance to Revive Biodiversity, which is a program funded by Mistra – the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research.

The term “biodiversity” denotes the variety and variability of life on Earth, including the variety of species and ecosystems. Unfortunately, mankind’s failure to recognize the importance of and to successfully manage biodiversity has led to what is now considered a sixth mass extinction of species. The continued loss of biodiversity is eroding the foundation of all societies and economies, including our Western system of financial capitalism. Yet it has been difficult to express this loss in economic or financial terms, which may be one of the reasons why previous efforts to halt biodiversity loss have failed.

Voices are now being raised for making economic agents, such as multinational companies and financial investors, become more engaged in these efforts. After all, in financial capitalism, companies and investors command substantial stewardship over the allocation of resources which could be put to use to revive biodiversity. But in order to do so, these economic agents must be provided with both suitable knowledge and powerful incentives to consider the effects of their activities on species and ecosystems. So precisely how can this be achieved? And, more generally, is it really possible to connect environmental and economic values in a sufficiently robust manner?

This doctoral position allows the candidate to explore the topic of environmental versus economic aspects of biodiversity in greater detail. We welcome proposals that are grounded in environmental ethics or economic ethics (or both). Furthermore, the candidate is expected to propose and explore his or her own ‘twist’ or perspective on the topic, on the basis of stringent philosophical analysis and argumentation. Some examples of interesting research questions in this regard are:

  • What is the value of biodiversity? Does it have intrinsic or only instrumental value? Can this value be captured by some more specific ethical or economic theory?
  • Can and should we put a price on biodiversity? That is, can and should we use markets and economic thinking in order to protect species and ecosystems? Or would this count as “commodifying” nature in an unethical way?
  • What duties, if any, do economic agents like companies and investors have to protect biodiversity? How do such duties square with their traditional economic role?
  • What policies can the state legitimately pursue to safeguard biodiversity? Do these include substantial regulations of markets and financial flows? Should we understand biodiversity loss as a market externality?
  • To what degree should we permit investors to prioritize biodiversity over other important environmental goals, such as climate change adaption and mitigation? How much should policymakers guide investors in weighing biodiversity preservation versus other similarly important objectives?
  • To what extent can existing economic theories capture or explain the value of biodiversity? Is the mass extinction of species a failing of the economic sciences?

Applications must be received by: January 9, 2023

In order to apply for a position at the University of Gothenburg, you have to register an account in our online recruitment system. See more here: https://web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/1035/job?site=7&lang=UK&validator=9b89bead79bb7258ad55c8d75228e5b7&job_id=28014

Ethics & Trust in Finance 9th Global Prize

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Every two years, the Prize invites young professionals and academics to participate and contribute to the reflection on the importance of the benefits of a more ethical approach to banking and finance, promoting greater awareness of the need for ethics, integrity and trust in the finance sector. Since 2006, the competition has prompted a debate about many different aspects of Ethics in Finance, ranging from the role of compliance offices, ethical investment and corporate social responsibility, the contribution of micro-finance to economic development, scandals and the persistence of financial misconduct, the ethical significance of fintech and the digital transformation of finance and the transition to a more sustainable financial system, to name but a few.

Candidates are invited to submit papers that have not been previously published, examining the role of ethics and integrity in finance from many possible practical angles and disciplinary perspectives. The papers could be analytical in character or they could be proposals for practical projects. In all cases, they should meet three criteria: intellectual rigour, innovative ideas, and clear conclusions. Best papers submitted in previous editions are available in this site. The Prize aims to encourage and promote:

  • awareness of the fundamental role of ethics in the world of finance;
  • precise identification of ethical issues in financial activities and institutions, in both the public and private sectors;
  • proposals for implementation of initiatives and projects concerning teaching and regulating for ethics in finance;
  • understanding of the role of ethics to support a more sustainable financial system.

The deadline to submit your final paper for the 9th edition is set to 29 of May 2023.

For more information, please refer to https://www.ethicsinfinance.org/2022-2023-9th/