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Barbara Weinstock Lectures on the Morals of Trade

In 1902, Harris Weinstock, a well-known businessman of Sacramento, California, provided the University of California with a fund to support an annual public lecture on the morals of trade, on behalf of his wife Barbara. Weinstock summed up his reasons for this decision in an article he wrote after the first lecture was delivered in 1904: "Thus, hope is in the air and there is a better and cleaner day in store for all destined to spend their lives in commercial pursuits. The thing to do at this hour is to accelerate the movement and to bring this hoped for day as near to our own as possible. The California University lectureship on the moral of trade is a small effort in that direction." Ralph Nader, MP Neil Kinnock, and Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen have delivered Barbara Weinstock Memorial Lectures on the Morals of Trade.

Weinstock Archives

Title Lecturer Year
Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future
Reich Robert B. 2011
Natural Capitalism: The Next Industrial Revolution
Lovins Amory 2008
Institutions, Regulation and Development
Laffont Jean-Jacques 2000
Beyond Free Trade to Fair Trade
Kinnock Neil 1994
Business and Corruption: Framing the Haitian Question
Laguerre Michel S. 1994
Population and Practical Reason
Sen Amartya 1994
Comparative Capitalism
The Japanese Difference
Johnson Chalmers 1993
European Community, International Trade and World Unity
Dischamps Jean-Claude 1992
California Employers Could and Should Apply Rational Economic Principles to Control Health Care Costs
Enthoven Alain 1992
The World Economy after the Cold War
Bergsten C. Fred 1991
Greenhouse Warming
The Prospects for Collective Action
Schelling Thomas C. 1990
There's More to Trade Than Trade
Turner John N. 1990
The Morals of Trade
Hawley Philip 1989
The External Debt Problem
Not Only a Financial Question
Herzog Jes 1987
International Banking and Domestic Politics
Perspectives on Debt and Development
Brimmer Andrew 1986
Corporate Decision Making
An Economist's View
Kreps Juanita M. 1984
Business Morality
Shareholder Proposals as Tools for Change?
Katzenbach Nicholas De B. 1981
Business Morality in Less Developed Countries
Swee Goh Keng 1979
Morals of Trade
Yamani Ahmed Zaki 1979
The Business Crime Wave
Nader Ralph 1974
Morals of Trade
Watson Thomas J. 1972
Life Before Death in the Corporate State
Johnson Nicholas 1970
Needed Protections for the Consumer
Douglas Paul H. 1968
The Ethics of Competition Revisited
Rostow Eugene V. 1962
The Morality of Discrimination in International Trade
Crowther Sir Geoffrey 1956
Elementary Conditions of Business Morals
Bernard Chester I. 1955
Toward Enlarging the Sphere of Freedom
Watkins Ralph J. 1951
Economics vs. Politics in International Relations
The European Recovery Program
Mason Edward S. 1948
Capitalizing on Capitalism
A Moral Responsibility
Hoffman Paul Gray 1946
Morals of Trade
Arnold Thurman 1942
Life Insurance and the Democratic State
Linton M. Albert 1941
Right and Wrong in Labor Relations
Leiserson William M. 1937
Morals in Business
Filene Edward A. 1934
Ethics and Modern Business
Dennison Henry S 1931
The Legal Sanctions of Business Morality
Radin Max 1930
Economics and Politics
Bonn Moritz Julius 1930
Relativity in Business Morals
Robinson Henry M. 1927
The Ancient Greeks and the Evolution of Standards in Business
Calhoun George M. 1925
Safeguarding the Future of Private Business
Creed Wigginton E. 1921
The New Paper Moneys of Europe
Their Moral and Economic Significance
Hirst Francis W. 1921
The Morals of Economic Internationalism
Hobson John A. 1919
The Ethics of Cooperation
Hayden James 1918
Creating Capital
Money Making as an Aim in Business
Lipman Frederick Lockwood 1917
Higher Education and Business Standards
Hotchkiss Willard Eugene 1916
Is Civilization a Disease?
Coit Stanton 1915
Social Justice Without Socialism
Clark John Bates 1913
Morals in Trade and Commerce
Anderson F.B. 1911
Commercialism and Journalism
Holt Hamilton 1909
The Moral Tendencies of Business
Bartlett A.C. 1907
Untitled
Adler Felix 1907
Untitled
Garfield Hon. James R. 1907
The Conflict Between Private Monopoly and Good Citizenship
Brooks John Graham 1907
The Business Center in Its Public Relations
Shaw Albert 1904