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About the Blog
This blog focuses on events and ideas that promote or prevent a climate of justice, a social climate that is created by persons who struggle for justice and care about correcting injustices.
The United States suffers from a climate of injustice that has its origin in the Atlantic commerce of enslaving people and appropriating the land of Indigenous Americans. This social climate has never been substantially corrected because that would have threatened American prosperity. Now, the trends of American prosperity themselves threaten the planet as a livable habitat, but we cannot change these trends until we change the social climate to a climate of justice.
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Marvin T Brown, Ph.D.
Marvin Brown’s work has been largely shaped by his effort to integrate his academic background in theology and philosophy with a career of teaching and writing in the areas of social and business ethics. Soon after Marvin finished his doctorate in theology and rhetoric at Graduate Theological Union in 1978, he began teaching social ethics at the University of San Francisco.
He published his first book, Working Ethics, in 1990, followed in 1993 by The Ethical Process. During the 1990s, Brown worked as an ethics and diversity consultant and give lectures and workshops in various foreign countries such as Argentine and China. Brown’s contact with colleagues fostered the writing of Corporate Integrity in 2005, Civilizing the Economy in 2010, A Climate of Justice in 2022, and Twenty Steps Toward a Climate of Justice in 2025. His books and essays have been translated into six languages.
In 2020, Marvin started the Climate of Justice Project blog,. Marvin has received an Alumni Achievement Award from Nebraska Wesleyan University and a Lifetime Service Award from the Philosophy Department at the University of San Francisco.
Marvin’s Previous Books
Offers practical instructions and worksheets to facilitate constructive dialogue in the face of disagreement.
Published by broadview press, 2014
Traces the origin of an economics of dissociation in Adam Smith’s denial of the central role of slavery in wealth creation and demonstrates the advantages of switching from a property-based to a civic-based economy, which allows the development of civic systems of provision.
Published by Cambridge University Press, 2010
Analyzes five key challenges facing modern businesses as they try to respond ethically to cultural, interpersonal, organizational, civic and environmental changes. For corporations are to have integrity, they must facilitate inclusive communication patterns based on mutual recognition and civic cooperation.
Published by Cambridge University Press, 2005. Translated into Italian, Korean, and Chinese.
Provides a detailed methodology for dealing with controversial issues that first explores the observations, values, and assumptions of alternative views and then evaluates them from an ethics of purpose, principle, and consequence. Participants learn how to use disagreement as a resource for making better decisions.
Published by Prentice-Hall, Third Edition, 2003
Translated into Spanish, German and Polish.
Develops an organizational ethic that focuses on decision making and the design of systems. It shows how attention to ethics can improve communication, resolve disagreements, and set just standards for employee-management relations-and thereby create conditions that foster greater organizational effectiveness.
Published by Jossey-Bass in 1990
Translated into Spanish and Portuguese
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