“In Louisiana, you’ve got all these prison entrepreneurs who are mostly local sheriffs who have built these prisons, and the prisons function just like hotels. They get a payment per person per day, and if they don’t keep the beds full they’re going to lose money,” says reporter Cindy Chang. More →

January 11, 2013 | Comments

“The contracts are usually written to protect the wealthy people who are commissioning the baby,” says University of Pennsylvania ethicist Dr. Arthur Caplan. More →

August 17, 2012 | Comments

“Something like happiness, it sound frivolous, but it’s not frivolous. The purpose of society is to create a better quality of life for all the people. It’s not to create the highest amount of aggregate wealth,” says international business consultant and author David Rothkopf. More →

November 18, 2011 | Comments

Why are vulnerable borrowers being harmed rather than helped by microcredit companies? Misgivings are spreading about what was once seen as a powerful weapon in the battle against poverty. More →

January 28, 2011 | Comments

The financial crisis is a moral crisis, says religious leader Jim Wallis, and repairing the economy will require a moral reawakening. More →

January 15, 2010 | Comments

Watch more of Bob Abernethy’s interview with Jim Wallis about values, the economy, and financial reform. More →

January 15, 2010 | Comments

A community of entrepreneurial Cistercian monks in rural Wisconsin balance a life of prayer and work, charity and contemplation. They also run a multi-million-dollar ink-and-toner business.

September 11, 2009 | Comments

David Miller, a business ethics professor at Princeton University, discusses the moral issues of how we treat the very wealthy during a financial crisis. More →

March 20, 2009 | Comments

The recent economic debacle should cause us to reread, or perhaps read for the first time, the Christian theological tradition and how it inextricably relates economic exchange to morality (our quest for the good) and to God.

October 10, 2008 | Comments

We explore the ethical issues underlying the financial meltdown with Rebecca Blank, an economist, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and co-author of the book "Is the Market Moral?"

September 19, 2008 | Comments