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Conflicts of Interest : Challenges and Solutions in Business, Law, Medicine, and Public Policy

ISBN: 9780521143462 | 0521143462
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date: 6/10/2010

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SummaryTable of Contents
This collection explores the subject of conflicts of interest. It investigates how to manage conflicts of interest and how they can limit the effectiveness of corporate boards, undermine professional ethics, and corrupt expert opinion. The results offer a sobering prognosis for professional ethics and for anyone who relies on professionals who have conflicts of interest.
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Business:
Managing conflicts of interest within organizations: does activating social values change the impact of self-interest on behavior?
Commentary: on Tyler's 'Managing conflicts of interest within organizations'
A review of experimental and archival conflicts-of-interest research in auditing
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Bounded ethicality as a psychological barrier to recognizing conflicts of interest
Commentary: bounded ethicality and conflicts of interest
Coming clean but playing dirtier: the shortcomings of disclosure as a solution to conflicts of interest
Commentary: psychologically naive assumptions about the perils of conflicts of interest
Medicine:
Physicians' financial ties with the pharmaceutical industry: a critical element of a formidable marketing network
Commentary: how did we get into this mess?
Why are (some) conflicts of interest in medicine so uniquely vexing?
Commentary: financial conflicts of interest and the identity of academic medicine Scott
Law:
Legal responses to conflicts of interest
Commentary: conflicts of interest begin where principal-agent problems end
Conflicts of interest and strategic ignorance of harm
Commentary: strategic ignorance of harm Daylian
Public Policy:
Conflicts of interest in public policy research
Commentary: conflicts of interest in policy analysis: compliant pawns in their game?
Conflict of interest as an objection to consequentialist moral reasoning
Commentary: conflict of interest as a threat to consequentialist reasoning
Index
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