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The Ethics Exchange: Independence for Sale? Unpacking Harvard's Response to the Trump Administration

Events

The Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics, in collaboration with the Intellectual Vitality Initiative , invites you to join us for the inaugural event of a new series: The Ethics Exchange. This first session will be on Monday, September 22 at 12:00 PM in...

Mala and Solomon Kamm Lecture in Ethics with Kieran Setiya | Laughter in the Dark: Stand-Up Comedy as Consolation

Events

The Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics invites you to join us for our annual Mala & Solomon Kamm Lecture in Ethics on Wednesday, October 22. This year's lecture will be held by Professor Kieran Setiya , who will speak on the topic "Laughter in the Dark...

Eve Driver

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Eve Driver is a writer based in Brooklyn and Boston.

Her first book, What We Can’t Burn (Westwood Press, 2024), is a memoir in two voices exploring her intense and formative disagreements with a Kenyan clean energy entrepreneur amid Harvard's fossil fuel...

Digital Public Goods: Guidance for Development, Governance, and Stewardship

Report

The report proceeds in five stages. The first two lay
the foundations of the report’s argument about the
need for deliberative structures of governance and
revisable technology design. The final three explore the
ethical responsibilities in designing...

A More Equal Future?: Political Equality, Discrimination, and Machine Learning

Report

Machine learning is everywhere. On social media platforms and news sites, in hiring, advertising, mortgage lending, criminal justice, education, and countless other sectors, more and more decisions are being made using predictions generated by algorithms...

“Institutional Corruption” Defined

Journal Article

This article defines the concept of institutional corruption and provides an analysis of its elements.

Institutional Corruption Lab Methodology and Scope

Miscellaneous

The Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics launched a 5 year research project (“the Lab”) in 2009, to study “institutional corruption.” This memo defines “institutional corruption,” and the method of our research.

Setting the Framework for the Question of Institutional Corruption

Film

October 8, 2009 @ 4:30 PM "Setting the Framework for the Question of Institutional Corruption" by Lawrence Lessig, Director, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics; Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership, Harvard Law School. In his inaugural lecture as...

Institutional Corruptions

Working Paper

Institutional corruption: the consequence of an influence within an economy of influence that illegitimately weakens the effectiveness of an institution especially by weakening the public trust of the institution.

Strengthening the Theory of Institutional Corruptions: Broadening, Clarifying, and Measuring

Working Paper

This essay suggests ways to broaden the concept of Institutional Corruption, developed by Dennis Thompson and Lawrence Lessig, so that it can more effectively apply to more institutional settings that do not involve elections or political institutions by...

Influence Incognito

Working Paper

Forces at work in the nation’s capital are threatening an institution at the heart of how our lives unfold. Long before think tanks became a fixture in Washington, D.C., people were gathering to ponder important issues for the common good. For a very long...

Professionalism and Moral Behavior: Does a Professional Self-Conception Make One More Unethical?

Working Paper

In this paper, I rely on recent literature on moral licensing and consequences of the amoral, rational, and impersonal and emotionally detached approaches to ethical decision-making to develop and empirically test the theoretical argument that...