June 2015
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New Module: Ethics in Business
Patrick launches a new module ‘Ethics and Responsibility in Business’ on the Manchester MBA programme in January 2015. Combining Kantian ethics with game theory reasoning and analysis, using case studies and examples, the module offers a new and refreshing approach to business ethics, governance and anti-trust regulations. It builds and extends on the range of…
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Lying is the Norm in a Noosphere: ‘Telling it slant’ and ‘white lies’ prevail.
In a paper presented at the Adam Smith Seminar Series, Ludwig Maximilian’s Universitat, LMU, in Munchen, January 2015 Patrick explored the meaning of lying and the meaning of truth. He concludes that the poet’s truth prevails; scientific truth is, on the contrary, fleeting, irrational, and dreamlike. A painter who cannot paint, is, as Socrates says,…
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Wistful Economics
Economics of times past, of Adam Smith and Keynes alas! Has economics become an illusion? Yes. It is an accidental tourist in the political landscape. Economic policy making is[1] ‘but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage’ of natural numbers, coupled with policymakers throwing[2] ‘sixes and fives in…