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Research Ethics: An Introduction, Tom Regan
Research Ethics: An Introduction, Tom Regan
Ethics in Science and Engineering National Clearinghouse
Research Ethics: an Introduction focuses both on how Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) fits into the field of applied ethics and on procedures for making decisions that have a moral component. Tom Regan presents “Morally Relevant Questions: A Check List” with the central theme of balancing conflicting obligations. We expand this discussion with several classic resources by well known experts in research ethics that articulate critical topics. We present a Case Study from The Association for Practical and Professional Ethics. We consider the question of professional codes and think about the toll of making the right decision. In the Additional …
The Mentoring Of Graduate Students, Margaret King
The Mentoring Of Graduate Students, Margaret King
Ethics in Science and Engineering National Clearinghouse
The Mentoring of Graduate Students presents basic issues that face both mentors and their protégés. Margaret King, the Graduate School, is our faculty guide for this module. We focus on some of the ethical values most central to the mentoring process such as justice and the idea of contracts. One of the challenges of the mentoring experience is that it involves rules and practices both tangible and intangible. Dr. King explores some of these intangibles- Right Attention, Right Balance, Right Empowerment and Right Boundaries- in the central essay and we focus on them additionally in our Central Theme section. We …
Responsible Authorship And Peer Review, James Wilson
Responsible Authorship And Peer Review, James Wilson
Ethics in Science and Engineering National Clearinghouse
Responsible Authorship and Peer Review presents the basic issues facing researchers at the publication stage of research. We focus on some of the ethical values particularly relevant to publication: honesty, objectivity, trust, collegiality, and the problem of power differentials. We present Jim Wilson’s Guidelines for Authors and the Office of Research Integrity (ORI) Guidelines: ORI has also posted extensive materials on authorship and peer review issues. We present a Case Study from The Association for Practical and Professional Ethics. We consider the challenges of peer review, especially in terms of innovation in research. In the Resources section, you will find …
Professional Responsibility And Codes Of Conduct, Nell Kriesberg
Professional Responsibility And Codes Of Conduct, Nell Kriesberg
Ethics in Science and Engineering National Clearinghouse
Professional Responsibility and Codes of Conduct presents an overview of major issues concerning professionalism as they relate to the Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR). Joe Herkert emphasizes both the micro (between individuals) and macro (between professionals and society) ethical dimensions of professional responsibility and codes of conduct. We compare ethical codes with aspects of moral theory, expanding the discussion with some of the classical readings for this topic. We present a case study from the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics. We consider the complex issue of whistle-blowing. We close with a sampling of additional resources.
Human Subjects In Research, Matt Ronning
Human Subjects In Research, Matt Ronning
Ethics in Science and Engineering National Clearinghouse
Human Subjects in Research presents basic ethical issues that face researchers when doing work with human participants. Matt Ronning, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Research Administration Sponsored Programs and Regulatory Compliance, (SPARCS) is our guide for this module. In the Overview section we review chapters from two well known textbooks on Research Ethics. In the Applied Ethics section we focus on the consent form as a contract and comment upon the recurring topics of Justice and Honesty as they apply particularly to human subjects. In the Central Theme section we review institutional guidelines, both at the national and institutional level, utilizing …
Rightdoing And Misconduct In Research, Rebeca Rufty, Nell Kriesberg
Rightdoing And Misconduct In Research, Rebeca Rufty, Nell Kriesberg
Ethics in Science and Engineering National Clearinghouse
Rightdoing and Research presents the major issues concerning research integrity and misconduct; we intend this to be more of a reference handbook than the other modules in the series. Our faculty expert for this module is Becky Rufty, the Graduate School. Concepts of Rightdoing and integrity are discussed, and we expand the discussion with several key articles in the evolution of research ethics literature. Ethical concerns about ambiguity and trust are explored, as is the idea of micro and Macroethics. We focus on the resources at NC State University for promoting research integrity, as well as national guidelines. We present …
Intellectual Property - Copyright, Peggy Hoon
Intellectual Property - Copyright, Peggy Hoon
Ethics in Science and Engineering National Clearinghouse
The goal of this module is to present the major issues surrounding intellectual property (IP): rather than attempt to discuss all four types of IP, trademarks, trade secrets, patents and copyright, we will focus on copyright. Our Faculty Expert for this module is Peggy Hoon, Director of the Scholarly Communications Center, NC State University. The Overview section presents two chapters from two well known textbooks on research ethics. In the Applied Ethics portion we discuss the idea of the labor contract and the idea of the Intellectual Commons to clarify some of the more complex issues. In the Central Theme …
Responsible Use Of Statistical Methods, Larry Nelson, Charles Proctor, Cavell Brownie
Responsible Use Of Statistical Methods, Larry Nelson, Charles Proctor, Cavell Brownie
Ethics in Science and Engineering National Clearinghouse
Responsible Use of Statistical Methods focuses on good statistical practices. In the Introduction we distinguish between two types of activities; one, those involving the study design and protocol (a priori) and two, those actions taken with the results (post hoc.) We note that right practice is right ethics, the distinction between a mistake and misconduct and emphasize the importance of how the central hypothesis is stated. The Central Essay, Identification of Outliers in a Set of Precision Agriculture Experimental Data by Larry A. Nelson, Charles H. Proctor and Cavell Brownie, is a good paper to study. The Applied Ethics section …
Science And The Media: Ethics Issues, Joann Burkholder
Science And The Media: Ethics Issues, Joann Burkholder
Ethics in Science and Engineering National Clearinghouse
This module addresses the complex interface of research and the media; this interface necessarily involves issues of public policy, however, for the purposes of this module we will focus on media issues and touch on public policy in the Thinking Outside the Box section. For simplicity, when we refer to “media” we are speaking of journalists covering the science beat. In the Introduction we talk about the special collaboration between the media and the researcher and the challenges both face in communicating science to the public at large. We note the ethical component inherent in all communication and include quotations …
Final Report On The Activities Of The Center For Immigrant And Refugee Community Leadership And Empowerment (Circle) Project: Covering The Period From 09/01/99 To 08/31/00, Sally R Habana-Hafner, Vachel W Miller, Michael Joseph Simsik, Cole D Genge
Final Report On The Activities Of The Center For Immigrant And Refugee Community Leadership And Empowerment (Circle) Project: Covering The Period From 09/01/99 To 08/31/00, Sally R Habana-Hafner, Vachel W Miller, Michael Joseph Simsik, Cole D Genge
Center for Immigrant and Refugee Community Leadership and Empowerment (CIRCLE) Project
No abstract provided.
Historic Preservation In Waterfront Communities In Portugal And The Usa, John Mullin, Zenia Kotval, Carlos Balsas
Historic Preservation In Waterfront Communities In Portugal And The Usa, John Mullin, Zenia Kotval, Carlos Balsas
Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning Faculty Publication Series
Portugal's seaport communities are undergoing substantial change. Once protected by the nation's closed economy and restrictions to cultural adaptation, they are now required to face increased competition, shifting markets, the need for increased efficiency and for new infrastructural systems. In addition to all this, the uses of those seaports need to be examined: will they be centers for fishing, freight activities or have mainly tourist functions? Clearly, the Portuguese seaports of tomorrow will not be the same as they are today. While seaport planners struggle with these issues, it is essential that they identify, protect and enhance those elements of …
Reclaiming Brownfields: From Corporate Liability To Community Asset, K. A. Dixon
Reclaiming Brownfields: From Corporate Liability To Community Asset, K. A. Dixon
PERI Working Papers
As the U.S. economy continues to march through its longest peacetime economic expansion in history, most urban areas are experiencing healthy levels of economic activity and growth, and many cities are engaging in ambitious redevelopment and revitalization projects. Yet a strong economy does not necessarily translate into income or asset growth for all people. The benefits of the current economic boom have often bypassed impoverished communities in the midst of American cities (Clarke and Gaile 1995, 163).
Let Them Eat Risk? Wealth, Rights, And Disaster Vulnerability, James K. Boyce
Let Them Eat Risk? Wealth, Rights, And Disaster Vulnerability, James K. Boyce
PERI Working Papers
Disaster-vulnerability reduction is an impure public good: when provided to one it is provided to others, but not equally provided to all. This means that in addition to the question of how much disaster-vulnerability reduction to provide, policy makers face the question of to whom it should be provided. This essay distinguishes between two broad classes of approaches to the latter question, one based on wealth, the other on rights.
Globalization, Inequality And Financial Instability: Confronting The Marx, Keynes And Polanyi Problems In Advanced Capitalist Economies, Robert Pollin
Globalization, Inequality And Financial Instability: Confronting The Marx, Keynes And Polanyi Problems In Advanced Capitalist Economies, Robert Pollin
PERI Working Papers
Over the past 20 years, a widespread perception has emerged that a new stage has been reached in the relationship between capitalism and the nation-state. Globalization is the umbrella term—indeed the ubiquitous buzzword—conveying a sense the sense that a fundamental transformation is occurring in the contemporary world economy. Governments and opposition political parties around the world rewrite their economic programs to take account of the perceived new realities engendered by globalization. Books, articles (including this one) and editorial pronouncements all pour forth.
Slow Growth, Destructive Competition, And Low Road Labor Relations: A Keynes-Marx-Schumpeter Analysis Of Neoliberal Globalization, James Crotty
PERI Working Papers
This essay begins with a brief overview of the standard arguments for and against global Neoliberalism and an overview of economic performance in the Neoliberal era. Section II argues that the micro theory appropriate to an analysis of the likely effects of global liberalization is not the neoclassical theory of perfectly competitive markets relied on by Neoliberal supporters, but Joseph Schumpeter’s theory of “natural oligopolies.” Section III presents a theory of the structural contradictions of global Neoliberalism that integrates a Keynesian-Marxian macro perspective with Schumpeterian and Marxian micro theory. The last section considers the political and policy 1implications of the …
Redressing Ecological Poverty Through Participatory Democracy: Case Studies From India, Anil Agarwal, Sunita Narain
Redressing Ecological Poverty Through Participatory Democracy: Case Studies From India, Anil Agarwal, Sunita Narain
PERI Working Papers
For the rural poor – who depend above all the land for their survival – a central development challenge is to sustain a base of natural capital that can support a robust local economy. In India, government mismanagement of forests, grazing lands, and water resources has often alienated rural people and exacerbated resource degradation. This paper shows the potential to reverse these trends when local people gain control over natural resources and manage them through systems of participatory democracy. Four case studies from semi-arid, hilly regions of India illustrate how democratic control of natural assets can lay the basis for …
Globalization And Redistribution: Feasible Egalitarianism In A Competitve World, Samuel Bowles
Globalization And Redistribution: Feasible Egalitarianism In A Competitve World, Samuel Bowles
PERI Working Papers
A reduction of impediments to international flows of goods, capital and professional labor is thought to raise the economic costs of programs by the nation state (and labor unions) to redistribute income to the poor and to provide economic security. But some of the more politically and economically successful examples of such policies -- for example Nordic social democracy and East Asian land reform-- have occurred in small open economies which would, on the above account, provide a prohibitive environment for egalitarian interventions. I present a model of globalization and redistribution to answer the following question: in a liberalized world …
Problems Of Poverty And Marginalization, Keith Griffin
Problems Of Poverty And Marginalization, Keith Griffin
PERI Working Papers
Strange as it may seem, mainstream neoclassical economics has no concept of poverty. The concept used in neoclassical economics is utility or economic welfare, which following Pigou often is limited to those things which can be subjected to “the measuring rod of money”. It is assumed individuals attempt to maximize utility or welfare subject to a constraint, such as income. From an analytical perspective the level of utility, or the level of such things as wellbeing, income or expenditure is irrelevant; there is no notion in economics of insufficiency and hence of poverty. This is rather odd. None the less, …
Problems Of Poverty And Marginalization, Keith Griffin
Problems Of Poverty And Marginalization, Keith Griffin
PERI Working Papers
Strange as it may seem, mainstream neoclassical economics has no concept of poverty. The concept used in neoclassical economics is utility or economic welfare, which following Pigou often is limited to those things which can be subjected to “the measuring rod of money”. It is assumed individuals attempt to maximize utility or welfare subject to a constraint, such as income. From an analytical perspective the level of utility, or the level of such things as wellbeing, income or expenditure is irrelevant; there is no notion in economics of insufficiency and hence of poverty. This is rather odd. None the less, …
Open Spaces And Recreation Plan: Berkley, Umass Amherst Center Economic Development
Open Spaces And Recreation Plan: Berkley, Umass Amherst Center Economic Development
Center for Economic Development Technical Reports
The goal of this report was to preserve the country character of Berkley, Massachusetts; to protect the precious resources of air, water, soil and habitats; and to provide the public access to the rivers, forests and fields.
A View To A Mountain, Umass Amherst Center Economic Development
A View To A Mountain, Umass Amherst Center Economic Development
Center for Economic Development Technical Reports
The purpose of this report was to examine the feasibility of submerging the overhead utilities that run along downtown streets, Main, Union, and Cottage, in the City of Easthampton, Massachusetts. To achieve this purpose, our team investigated the steps involved with submerging utilities and how the City of Easthampton might go through this process.
Erving Usher Plant Revitalization, Umass Amherst Center Economic Development
Erving Usher Plant Revitalization, Umass Amherst Center Economic Development
Center for Economic Development Technical Reports
The purpose of this report was to make a plan to revitalize the Usher Plant in Erving, Massachusetts. The potential uses for the space are secondary to the question of structural integrity and extent of environmental contamination. The report raises these issues and gives some recommendations on how to proceed towards a resolution.
Lynn Telecom Studio Report, Umass Amherst Center Economic Development
Lynn Telecom Studio Report, Umass Amherst Center Economic Development
Center for Economic Development Technical Reports
This report was put together to assess current economic and demographic conditions of Lynn, Massachusetts, and identify Lynn’s telecommunications infrastructure. The report also surveyed business’s stock in Lynn, while proposing recommendations for using telecommunications for economic development. Finally, the report wraps up by using the city of Lynn as a case study for other communities.
Economic Development Of Erving, Massachusetts, Umass Amherst Center Economic Development
Economic Development Of Erving, Massachusetts, Umass Amherst Center Economic Development
Center for Economic Development Technical Reports
This report presents information on Erving, Massachusetts’ economy and main economic development issues. It begins with an analysis of demographic, labor, and employment statistics, then discusses some key issues that pose challenges to and provide opportunities for future development. It concludes with recommendations for taking action to address challenges and to seize opportunities.
Guide To Green Planning And Regulation Practices In Suasco Watershed, Umass Amherst Center Economic Development
Guide To Green Planning And Regulation Practices In Suasco Watershed, Umass Amherst Center Economic Development
Center for Economic Development Technical Reports
This report discusses six planning tools or techniques selected by the client that have been used in six different SuAsCo (Sudbury, Assabet, and Concord Rivers) communities. The six case studies highlighting these tools as they applied in the watershed and Eastern Massachusetts were assessed as to their strengths and weaknesses in light of current national practices.
Ontogenetic Shifts In The Costs Of Living In Groups: Focal Observations Of A Pholcid Spider (Holocnemus Pluchei), Elizabeth Jakob, Julie Blanchong, Mary Popson, Kristine Sedey, Michael Summerfield
Ontogenetic Shifts In The Costs Of Living In Groups: Focal Observations Of A Pholcid Spider (Holocnemus Pluchei), Elizabeth Jakob, Julie Blanchong, Mary Popson, Kristine Sedey, Michael Summerfield
Psychological and Brain Sciences Faculty Publication Series
Holocnemus pluchei spiders (Family Pholcidae) facultatively live in groups: sometimes they live alone and sometimes they share webs. In the field groups vary in size and composition and include spiders of all ages and either sex. Group membership is flexible and individuals move frequently among groups. To understand group formation and maintenance it is necessary to understand the costs of group membership. We used focal animal sampling to investigate the cost of group living for spiders of different ages across a range of group sizes. Both spider age and group size affected the costs incurred by group-living spiders. There was …
For Love Or Money - Or Both?, Julie A. Nelson, Nancy Folbre
For Love Or Money - Or Both?, Julie A. Nelson, Nancy Folbre
Economics Department Faculty Publications Series
This paper explores the implications for economic analysis, societal well-being, and public policy of the movement of care services (such as child and elder care) from home to market. A broad empirical overview sets the stage for the argument that this process cannot be properly evaluated using only a priori judgments about the suitability of marketization. The context in which markets operate is crucial, and while the growth of market provision poses some risks, it also offers some potential benefits.
Introduction - Children And Family Policy: A Feminist Issue, Nancy Folbre, Susan Himmelweit
Introduction - Children And Family Policy: A Feminist Issue, Nancy Folbre, Susan Himmelweit
Economics Department Faculty Publications Series
No abstract provided.
Risk Aversion, Insurance, And The Efficiency-Equality Tradeoff, Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis
Risk Aversion, Insurance, And The Efficiency-Equality Tradeoff, Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis
Economics Department Working Paper Series
Under conditions of informational asymmetry, redistributing the property rights may improve work incentives but lead to an inefficient choice of entrepreneurial risk. We present a model in which reassignment of property rights does not affect factor prices and we show that there exist egalitarian asset redistributions that enhance allocative efficiency. The scope for such redistributions can be broadened by offering fair insurance protecting the independent entrepreneur against risk unassociated with the production process and against production uncertainties that are unrelated to the quality of their individual decisions. The market will generally supply insurance of this type suboptimally.
Optimal Parochialism: The Dynamics Of Trust And Exclusion In Networks, Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis
Optimal Parochialism: The Dynamics Of Trust And Exclusion In Networks, Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis
Economics Department Working Paper Series
Networks such as ethnic credit associations, close-knit residential neighborhoods, ‘old boy’networks, and ethnically linked businesses play an important role in economic life but have been little studied by economists. These networks are often supported by cultural distinctions between insiders and outsiders and engage in exclusionary practices which we call parochialism. We provide an economic analysis of parochial networks in which the losses incurred by not trading with outsiders are offset by an enhanced ability to enforce informal contracts by fostering trust among insiders. We first model one-shot social interactions among self-regarding agents, demonstrating that trust (i.e., cooperating without using information …