Harvard University's Michael Hiscox on the business case for improving ethical standards

A conversation about the business argument for the use of ethical labels to mark products made without the use of child labour, slavery and other forms of human exploitation, or environmental destruction. Michael Hiscox is involved in research on this subject at both the production and consumption end of the business cycle.

Michael J. Hiscox is the Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs at Harvard University. He received his B. Econ. (First Class Honours) from the University of Sydney in 1989 and his Ph.D in Government from Harvard University in 1997. He was Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego, from 1997 to 2001. From 2001 until 2005 he was the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard.

Professor Hiscox was a Visiting Professor at the US Studies Centre in June 2009.

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News & Politics

Tags:

• child
• labour
• ethical
• practice
• business
• human
• rights
• fair
• trade
• exploitation
• environmental
• desctruction
• global
• financial
• crisis

[lovelplants]

good info.. so the large companies have issues.

[comptonproduction]

FRUSTRATED WITH LARGE CORPORATIONS.