Rape by American Soldiers in World War II France – NYTimes.com.
There is also a racist angle to this as black GIs got prosecuted disproportionally for rape.
Posts Tagged ‘ethics’
There is no such thing as a “clean” war (not even WW2)
Posted: 2013/05/21 by Punkonomics (@dearbalak) in UncategorizedTags: ethics, history, rape, US Army, WW2
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“Economists afraid of ethics?” (macrobusiness.com.au)
Posted: 2013/04/23 by Punkonomics (@dearbalak) in UncategorizedTags: ethics, history, justice, moral philosophy, political-economy
“Economists afraid of ethics?” (macrobusiness.com.au)
you know we (the economics profession) were not always such scum-bags. Back in the 19th century political-economists (that’s how we called ourselves then… in the 18th c. we were “moral-philosophers”) were at the forefront of the struggle for the abolition of slavery, the emancipation of women, universal suffrage, etc.
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