March 2006

Prolific Faculty Publish Books, Articles

Jepson’s prolific faculty has been hard at work again. Cambridge University Press published associate professor Terry Price’s first book, “Understanding Ethical Failures in Leadership,” in August 2005. Price used a multi-disciplinary approach to reach an understanding of why leaders in the public, private and nonprofit sectors fail morally all too often. 

Joanne Ciulla, Price and Claremont McKenna professor Susan E. Murphy co-edited “The Quest for Moral Leaders: Essays on Leadership Ethics,” published by Edward Elgar in December 2005. Contributors to the book offered “a nuanced discussion of the complex ethical relationships that lie at the core of leadership,” according to the publisher’s Web site. Price authored one of the essays in the collection, "Abuse, Privilege, and the Conditions of Responsibility for Leaders," and colleague Douglas Hicks authored another essay, "Ethical Diversity and the Leader's Religious Commitments." Ciulla wrote the introduction.

Ciulla also co-edited “Honest Work: A Business Ethics Reader,” with Clancy Martin of the University of Missouri, Kansas City, and Robert C. Solomon of the University of Texas at Austin. Published by Oxford University Press in February 2006, “Honest Work” provides a practical overview of business ethics.  

Assistant professor Thad Williamson and co-author Gar Alperovitz of the University of Maryland shared their thoughts for progressive change in a post-Bush era in “A ‘Top Ten’ List of Bold Ideas,” published in The Nation on Jan. 23, 2006. A recommendation to adopt an anti-nuclear proliferation policy headed their list.

 “Economic Democracy,” an interview Williamson conducted with Loyola University Chicago philosopher David Schweickart about his support for a market economy anchored by democratically organized worker-owned firms, appeared in the November/December 2005 issue of Dollars and Sense.  

In addition, an article co-authored by Williamson, Alperovitz and David Imbroscio originally published in 2002 in a book titled “Making a Place for Community” was recently reprinted. “The Challenge of Urban Sprawl” appeared as the final chapter in the 2005 paperback edition of “Cities and Society” edited by Nancy Kleniewski.