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Complementary Consumer Responsibility - The Limits to Immoral Delegation in Markets
2019
Delegation has been shown to facilitate individual immoral behavior. It is however unclear, if these findings extend to markets, where consumers may punish firms who delegate immoral production decisions. I address this question by employing an experimental market paradigm, involving an unfair product, containing a negative externality, and a fair product without externality. Passive delegation of the production decision, with random matching between an owner and a seller, leads to a lower share of the fair product being traded, consistent with the findings on responsibility diffusion. Active delegation in contrast, where owners have a choice over sellers first, increases the share of the f…
Do Female Loan Officers Mitigate Social-Financial Trade-Offs in Microfinance?
2021
This paper revisits social-financial trade-offs in microfinance. We theorize that workforce diversity mitigates the divergence between social and financial performance levels. We test our prediction by performing fixed-effects generalised least squares regressions on a global sample of 1257 microfinance institutions (MFIs) in 107 countries over the period 2010–2018. Confirming our prediction, the empirical results show that the proportion of female loan officers attenuates the negative relationship between the social performance and the financial performance of MFIs. We attribute our findings to the personal characteristics of female loan officers and the high repayment rates of loans that …
Performance and international investments in microfinance institutions
2013
Preprint of the published version of an article from Strategic Change Using data from 319 microfinance institutions (MFIs) in 68 developing countries, we study the degree to which international debt investments are related to the financial and social performances of MFIs. We find that commercial investments are mainly related to financial performance and level of professionalisation of the MFIs. The targeting of women is not a priority, even though international commercial investors target MFIs that provide small loans. Subsidised investments, however, are mainly driven by the targeting of women, while financial performance and the level of professionalisation of the MFI is not a priority.
Perception, Normativity and Action in Contemporary Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science
Working on the background of a view of mind as “in action”, as pragmatically shaped by its own dynamic interactions with the world, emerging from the achievements of contemporary philosophy of mind (from Searle to enactivism)and cognitive science (from Gibson to Goodale and Milner)I aim to propose a view of perception as a form of human activity of which we are responsible, and in which our “commitment” to truth and rationality can take place. Against some recent phenomenalist and antirepresentationalist views of perception I'll try to show that the action-oriented character of perception does not challenge its rational constraint to a right representation of the state of affairs which it i…
Aidòs. Percorsi di etica del limite
2022
Come già Platone intuì con il mito di Protagora, la tecnica è figlia della finitezza. C’è tecnica, infatti, lì dove c’è bisogno di migliorare; ma lo stesso bisogno di migliorare è segno che non c’è ancora compimento. Nel crescente darsi da fare della tecnologia per strappare alla vita la sua imperfezione si nasconde così uno strano paradosso: lo scopo della tecnica non può che essere il proprio togliersi. Solo lì dove non ci sarà più tecnica, infatti, potrà esserci quella pienezza a cui l’uomo, tramite la tecnica, aspira. Ne consegue che il progresso qualitativo e quantitativo della tecnologia, lungi dall’avvicinarci gradualmente a un ultimo limite che sarà finalmente superato, è cifra di u…
Moral Responsibility and Moral Harm
2009
I will investigate the relations between the concepts of moral harm and moral responsibility. On such a basis I will question the conceptual soundness of descriptivism, on which consequentialist and non-consequentialist arguments are often grounded. Finally, I will defend a certain version of ascriptivism.
Municipal budgetary framework and forecasting errors: The case of Moroccan municipalities
2017
International audience
Somalia: From the Errors of Colonialism to the Horrors of War
2012
Chapter 5 analyses the reality of the Republic of Somalia, a country which is currently facing the worst humanitarian crisis in history. The first descriptive part of the article shows how the current human catastrophe devastating the Somali people is the result of the incomprehensible de-composition of one of the most homogenous peoples in Africa, not only ethnically speaking, but also from a linguistic, religious and cultural point of view. This de-composition, which has led to Somalia being known as the “State without State”, is undoubtedly rooted in the errors and horrors suffered, in the first place, during the successive processes of colonization and de-colonisation, but also during t…
Penal Contextualism and Ideational Frameworks: A Guide for the Perplexed
2017
In my paper, I attempt a critical review of Nicola Lacey’s book In Search of Criminal Responsibility, by arguing, firstly, that she gives the categories of “character responsibility” and “capacity responsibility” an over-inclusive account, which results from her filling each of them with views that are not only disparate but also based, at least in part, on conflicting principles; and, secondly, that Lacey’s spelling out of various conceptions of “criminal responsibility” necessarily entails an underlying unitary definition of its subject matter, that is, the concept of “criminal responsibility,” which seems to conflict with her (version of) penal contextualism.