Parcelization of morality

Title: Parcelization of Morality

Author: E. Kimman

Binding: Paperback

EAN: 9789051706048

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Eduard Kimman (1946) spent ten years in Indonesia, where he saw what happens to a society when corruption becomes an everyday phenomenon. It inspired him in 1999 to set up the Dutch branch of Transparency International, an association of concerned citizens against corruption. He finds the current approach to corruption far too American. 'It relies too much on criminal law and is too focused on individual companies. This threatens to create a double standard, where bribery is officially prohibited, but everyone accepts that it happens in practice.

' He said this in the Volkskrant of 26 May 2001. 'Ethicists try to convince people. There is a huge tendency in society to only ask the question: does it work or not, regardless of whether the means used are fair. For example, there is now a whole discussion going on among economists about insider trading. There are economists who claim that insider trading makes the price of a share reflect the correct information more quickly and therefore want to allow that trade. That is a complete demoralisation of economic action. The result is that the morally good end up last.' This is how Eduard Kimman expressed the importance of business ethics in the Volkskrant article.