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Subsidiarity: Challenging The Top Down Bias, Scott Kelley
Subsidiarity: Challenging The Top Down Bias, Scott Kelley
Scott Kelley
Global poverty has received significant attention in the past decade, particularly after the adoption of the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals in 2002. Commentators and ethicists like Peter Singer have long held that the wealthy of the world have an obligation to help the poor. While the sentiments may be positive, there are real harms that have come from this kind of top down thinking. Subsidiarity, to the contrary, is a much more realistic and morally tenable approach to global poverty.
Started As Customer: Confessions Of A Business Ethics Teacher, Scott Kelley
Started As Customer: Confessions Of A Business Ethics Teacher, Scott Kelley
Scott Kelley
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Started As Customer: Confessions Of A Business Ethics Teacher, Scott Kelley
Started As Customer: Confessions Of A Business Ethics Teacher, Scott Kelley
Scott Kelley
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Subsidiarity And Global Poverty: Development From Below Upwards, Scott Kelley
Subsidiarity And Global Poverty: Development From Below Upwards, Scott Kelley
Scott Kelley
In early November of 2007 DePaul University hosted the 14th annual International Vincentian Business Ethics conference which addressed the topic of globalization and poverty. As a Catholic, Vincentian University it is quite fitting that DePaul would host such a conference. But, poverty studies are nothing new to many universities; in fact Chicago is home to the Joint Center for Poverty Research, a collaborative endeavor between Northwestern University and the University of Chicago, which has been examining pover- ty-related issues since 1996. if some, or even many, universities engage in poverty studies, is there anything unique about such endeavors at a …