On the Morality of Banking, the Exploitation Tradition and the New Challenges of the Global Financial Crisis

Title
On the Morality of Banking, the Exploitation Tradition and the New Challenges of the Global Financial Crisis
Publication Date
2019
Author(s)
Walsh, Adrian
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1959-254X
Email: awalsh@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:awalsh
Editor
Editor(s): Christopher Cowton, James Dempsey and Tom Sorell
Type of document
Book Chapter
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Routledge
Place of publication
New York, United States of America
Edition
1
Series
Routledge Studies in Business Ethics
DOI
10.4324/9780429447839-3
UNE publication id
une:1959.11/51987
Abstract

The morality of banking needs to be extended beyond the exploitation tradition to encompass new practices in the banking sector, such as the resale of bad debts, and needs to focus on the collective nature of the harms caused by immoral financial practices. Whereas the concept of desperate exchange must remain an element of any proper morality of banking and finance, it cannot cover all that is required. Equally, the tradition of moral rearmament that solely focuses on inculcating moral attitudes is also inadequate, not merely because of its excessively optimistic view of the role of moral exhortation but also because of the failure to conceptualise adequately the relationship between morality and the profit motive. A new framework is developed here.

Link
Citation
Business Ethics After The Global Financial Crisis: Lessons From The Crash, p. 22-40
ISBN
9780429447839
9781138330504
Start page
22
End page
40

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