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Marino tackles business ethics in Boston Globe

By David Gonnerman '90
April 13, 2009

"Over the last half-century, Americans have developed an almost fetishistic taste for expert opinion," writes St. Olaf Professor of Philosophy Gordon Marino in "The Business of Business Ethics" in the April 11 Boston Globe. "We have of late come to bow before experts on just about everything: sex, grief, diversity, and, of course, the economy." But, he wonders, where are the business ethicists?

"If business ethicists cannot do anything to diminish the tendency toward greed," he concludes, "they ought to close up shop."

Contact David Gonnerman at 507-786-3315 or gonnermd@stolaf.edu.