Finance and Justice - Einzelansicht

In the aftermath of the global financial crisis 2008 many analysts asked about the moral and ethical limits of financial markets and societal risk taking. In this seminar, we will look at precisely these limits and the institutional demands that a just political economy places on regulators and policy-makers. We will discuss question relating to the ethics of risk and which risks a society ought to regulate, as well as questions regarding the relationship between individual freedom to pursue one’s economic plans and the attainment of common good.

The seminar will be held in English.

In order to access all the reading materials and to follow this course, which be held online (!), please register via moodle on the course website. The password for the course is: Crisis

Moodle registration will open on April 9th 2021.

Herzog, Lisa, ed. Just financial markets?: finance in a just society. Oxford University Press, 2017.

De Bruin, Boudewijn. Ethics and the global financial crisis. Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Linarelli, J. (2017). Luck, justice and systemic financial risk. Journal of Applied Philosophy, 34(3), 331-352.

Oberdiek, John (2009): Towards a Right Against Risking. Law and Philosophy 28, 367–392.

de Bruin, B. (2018). Moral responsibility for large-scale events: the difference between climate change and economic crises. Midwest Studies Philosophy, 42, 191-199.

Dietsch, Peter, Francois Claveau and Clément Fontan (2018). Do Central Banks Serve The People? Polity.

James, Aaron (2017). The distinctive significance of systemic risk. Ratio Juris, 30(3): 239-258.