This is a sobering article in American Banker (August 23, 2012) commenting on significant recent survey results (N=2,000) about the lack of ethical monitoring by executives and Boards in the financial services sector, based on a survey of 250 interviews in each of the U.S. and the U.K. Monitoring and oversight practices have declined substantially between
“The following post comes to us from Jordan A. Thomas, partner at Labaton Sucharow LLP and former assistant director at the Securities and Exchange Commission.” This post is based on a Labaton Sucharow report, available here.
Haidt, Jonathan, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion (Pantheon; 2012) The full review, by David Nitkin at EthicScan, can be found in the Ethics in Integrity Webzine: At first glance a book on moral psychology would seem to be of limited interest to elected government officials, but first impressions