Listen up! The Lab has launched a podcast series on institutional corruption!
In this exclusive podcast series, Fellows from a range of disciplines across academia, industry, journalism, and government discuss in their own voices the everyday, real-life issues of institutional corruption and their own projects in response to it. Labcast is managed by Tara Skurtu and edited by Paul Worster.
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Podcasts
Labcast 15 - 12/8/2014 - When Less Information is Better: Blinding in Medicine: Marie Newhouse & Christopher Robertson
Is blinding a possible solution to the implicit biases that exist throughout the healthcare and biomedical science fields? Christopher Robertson, a Lab affiliate and Associate Professor of Law at the University of Arizona, and former Lab Fellow Marie Newhouse examine the positives and negatives of blinding. They also discuss Robertson’s current collaborative research project on political corruption and how juror discretion affects the outcome of campaign finance cases.
Labcast 14 - 10/16/2014 - Reforming Financial Regulation: Gregg Fields & Kim Pernell-Gallagher
Labcast 13 - 7/22/2014 - How Does a Business Keep a Promise?: Gregg Fields & Elizabeth Doty
This interview touches on the seven promise-keeping strategies which are described in a new article by Doty in strategy+business magazine, and which are summarized in this blog post.
Labcast 12 - 6/5/2014 - From the Bottom Up: A Shift Towards Local Government Ethics Initiatives: Gregg Fields & Carla Miller
Can independent and local government ethics commissions reduce political corruption? Journalist Gregg Fields interviews Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics Network Fellow Carla Miller about putting the heart back into government ethics training, and how a shift towards local government ethics initiatives may create an avenue for citizens to have an impact at the state level and beyond. (For more information, visit www.cityethics.org/.)
Labcast 11 - 5/20/2014 - On Life, Animated: Autism, Affinities, & the Power of Story: Christine Baugh and Ron Suskind
Autism affects one in sixty-eight children. This is the story of the Suskind family. Owen, diagnosed with autism as a child, developed an affinity for Disney films. Through their scripts and characters he was able to reconnect with language and expression, his family, and his environments. In this exclusive podcast for the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Owen’s father Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Ron Suskind speaks candidly with Lab Fellow Christine Baugh about his newest and most personal book, Life, Animated: A Story of Sidekicks, Heroes, and Autism. This is a memoir of family, love, and constancy, and a book that has begun to change the direction of autism research as we know it. (For more information, visit lifeanimated.net.)
Labcast 10 - 5/6/2014 - Think Tanks and Transparency: Brooke Williams & the Center for Global Development
Labcast 9 - 4/10/2014 - Donors Unbound: McCutcheon v. FEC: Gregg Fields & Jen Heerwig
Labcast 8 - 3/13/2014 - Investigative Journalism, Integrity, and a Little Insanity: Brooke Williams & Charles Lewis
Labcast 7 - 3/5/2014 - The Big Fix: Financial Markets & Institutional Corruption: Gregg Fields and Justin O'Brien
In an explosive scandal, global regulators suspect the 4pm fix is quite possibly fixed. Traditionally it's the London hour when rates for currencies like the dollar are set. It's now suspected that traders colluded to rig markets for private gain. Financial journalist Gregg Fields and Professor Justin O'Brien, director of the Centre for Law, Markets and Regulation at the University of New South Wales in Australia, discuss the role that institutional corruption may have played.
Labcast 6 - 2/21/2014 - Business & Human Rights: Jennifer E. Miller and John Ruggie
Dr. John Ruggie—one of the 25 most influential international relations scholars in the United States and Canada (according to Foreign Policy magazine), Harvard Kennedy School of Government and Harvard Law School professor, and the author of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights—talks with bioethicist and Edmond J. Safra Lab Fellow Dr. Jennifer E. Miller about his experiences drafting and implementing the UN Guiding Principles. These principles constitute the most comprehensive and authoritative global standard in the area of business and human rights, to date.
Labcast 5 - 1/29/2014 - The DSM-5: A Vehicle For High-Profit Patent Extensions? Gregg Fields & Lisa Cosgrove
The fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders affects drugs with sales in the billions of dollars. In research supported by the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Lisa Cosgrove of UMass-Boston investigated financial ties between DSM panel members and the pharmaceutical companies that have a vested interest in finding new indications for their blockbuster drugs. In this podcast, she tells journalist Gregg Fields what she found, what it means—and why we all should care.
Labcast 4 - 1/8/2014 - Political Dimensions Of Poverty & The NHRebellion Walk: Daniel Weeks
50 years after President Lyndon Johnson declared War on Poverty, the number of Americans living below the poverty line remains stubbornly high. Daniel Weeks, a non-resident fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, discusses the political dimensions of persistent poverty in America and presents solutions to overcome the systematic disenfranchisement of millions of poor people in the democratic process – including the upcoming NHRebellion walk across New Hampshire for campaign finance reform, led by E.J. Safra Center Director Lawrence Lessig.
Labcast 3 - 12/24/2013 - The EPA & Institutional Corruption: Ted Gup & Sheila Kaplan
What will it take for EPA to protect people and the environment from hazardous pollutants? Closing the loopholes in the Toxic Substances Act (TSCA) would help, but industry pressure has Congress on the verge of a "reform" bill that might make things worse. Journalist Ted Gup interviews investigative reporting fellow Sheila Kaplan on institutional corruption at EPA.
Labcast 2 - 12/20/2013 - NHR March: Ron Suskind & Lawrence Lessig
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Ron Suskind interviews Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics Director Lawrence Lessig about his upcoming march across New Hampshire.
Labcast 1 - 12/10/2013 - The Volcker Rule: Gregg Fields & Malcolm Salter
Wall Street is in for a shakeup under the newly adopted Volcker Rule. In this exclusive podcast for the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard business professor emeritus Malcolm Salter and financial journalist Gregg Fields discuss what it does, what lies ahead -- and why every American should care.