- Obama signs an executive order on ethics, heralding a stringent new code of practice on lobbying and government appointments.
Petraeus's affair prompted the US defence secretary, Leon Panetta, to order a review of ethics training for military officers.
In an interview, General James F. Amos, the Marine Corps commandant, said that after news of the urination video broke in January, he ordered a review of ethics training throughout the corps, from boot camp to midcareer courses for officers.
"The fundamental mission of the Department of Defense is to protect the nation," Mr. Panetta said in a memo to General Dempsey ordering a review of ethics training for generals and admirals.
But Piccolomini could bring himself to admit that the order of teaching, in ethics as well as in in other practical disciplines, should follow this order of apprehension.
None of his published or unpublished works is considered a magnum opus on the order of Spinoza's Ethics or Kant's Critique of Pure Reason.
LAST week, I mentioned that a growing group of economists is pressing the American Economic Association to adopt a professional code of ethics in order to address concerns that conflicts of interest are eroding public confidence in the field.
A15 BUSINESS DAY C1-17 New Standards for Employees Corporations and their boards are holding their employees to lofty standards of business and personal behavior in order to stop perceived breaches of ethics that could result in law enforcement action or public relations disasters.
"More simply put, the second element an institution like Fifa needs in order to meet the challenge of ethics enforcement is leadership.
The country is reeling from an ethical cancer that is overtaking the new administration, its cronies, and supporters who are willing to forgo standards of ethics in order to win victories on a slate of issues.
