OCTOBER 18, 2016 PROGRAM:
Where has the Middle Class Gone?
The current US presidential campaign is unprecedented in many ways? Why? What has happened to us? First, there is a rebellion against an elite going on simultaneously on the right and the left. Second, the numbers on economic prospects for average Americans and many other social/political trends have been disheartening for several decades, driving our distemper and upset upward. Third, we have been in a culture war since the 1960s which has reached new extremes of disagreement. Not a happy picture any way you look at it.
Stephen B. Young became the Global Executive Director of the Caux Round Table in 2000. He wrote the book Moral Capitalism to explicate the economic and moral approach of the Caux Round Table to free market capitalism. Moral Capitalism integrated the moral sense theory of Adam Smith with other theories of moral philosophy and economics. It has been translated into Japanese, Spanish, Croat and Polish.For the Caux Round Table, Young drafted a set of ethical Principles for Government,edited a set of ethical Principles for NGOs, and wrote a set of ethical Principles for the Ownership of Wealth.
To support training in the Principles for Government, Young wrote the monograph Moral Government which was translated into Spanish. Under Young’s stewardship, the Caux Round Table developed country chapters, developed a unique management tool for corporate social responsibility, the Arcturus assessment instrument, and an assessment instrument to help individuals act more ethically, the Ethical Leadership Profile.