Learning to Live with the Killing Fields: Ethics, Politics, Relationality

How to integrate ethics, politics and innovation

Learning to live with sharks

Sharks kill around six humans per year, on average; humans kill more than 40 million sharks per year (or possibly even up to 100 million, according to some estimates). It shouldn't be all that difficult to work out which of the two is a dangerous threat and which is a victim. Yet the killing continues. Perhaps the most irrational of the various reasons for which people kill sharks is the quest ...

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The killing fields of inequality.

The article presents a multidimensional analysis of inequality, in a global perspective, distinguishing vital, existential, and material resources inequality. These dimensions are interrelated and interacting, but irreducible to each other, and have had different historical trajectories, within and between nations. Over the last half-century, the contrast between advances of existential equaliz...

Nudge politics: efficacy and ethics

Nudge politics capitalize on psychological insights on human behavior to inform central policies. The scope for such policies to bring about large improvements in individual behavior for relatively little cost has captured the imagination of governments worldwide. “Nudging” involves using choice architecture—the ways decisions are framed or presented—to modify choosers’ behavior (Thaler and Sun...