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...Atlanta company, the chairman of the board boasts that he has never touched a keyboard, and that neither he nor any of his right-hand men have a computer in their office. Explains an underling: "For these guys in their 50s, computers just aren't part of their ethic." Such an attitude is now widespread. "The idea of an executive sitting in his office programming a computer is, well, just not realistic," insists Ray Stata, president of Analog Devices, a computer-parts maker. John Pignataro, vice president of data processing for the Sheraton hotel chain, agrees. "Tools like...
This approach seems to constitute an ethic of irresponsibility. Still, we can grant Bok his contention that academic freedom would be imperiled. But it is harder to accept his argument that institutions should have neither friends nor enemies, only interests. This notion lies behind his plea for neutrality in the nonacademic realm: a university must protect its vested interests for the sake of academic freedom. Thus he focuses on method instead of effect; thus he strives to make detached cost-benefit analyses; thus his motives and his morals are in the end utilitarian. But there is no organic, causal connection...
Democratic capitalism embodies three elements: a free-market economy, a political system based on individual rights, and a moral pluralism that respects different cultural goals and beliefs. Such social philosophers as Max Weber (The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism) and Daniel Bell (The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism) have contended that these elements are often in conflict, and that a liberal society must balance the competing forces of democracy, economic freedom and social justice. Not so, answers Novak. Capitalism and democracy complement one another. They are inevitable outgrowths of the same moral tradition, and it is no accident that...
...early 70s people took greater notice of the ethic. Implications of some of Harvard's investments Campaign GM, a Ralph Nader supported group of lawyers pushing the democratization of the auto industry, asked Harvard for support The Gulf Angola Project wanted the University to use its influence as a major investor in the Gulf Of Company to help get the firm to move investments out of Angola which was then an embattled Portuguese colony. Through the shareholder resolution process, these groups wanted to pressure these large corporations into being more socially aware...
...cuts in social spending, Lekachman says that, contrary to Administration work ethic homilies, cutting welfare benefits to the working poor will discourage work in many cases. Of course, the Reagan budget cuts are designed to wean us of our dependence on Washington. But Lekachman makes the more realistic suggestion that the cuts will merely intensify the politically divisive scramble among interest groups to get on board the rapidly departing federal gravy train...