For those who read German : I co-edited a “Stichwort” on ethics in the financial system. It’s mostly sociological work; the paper I co-wrote is on banks who advertise as being “ethical banks”. We’ve done an analysis of what they mean by this.
http://www.ifs.uni-frankfurt.de/westend/

H/T Leiterreports: an interesting piece in The New York Times on what’s worrying about too many students going into finance, with links to papers about the social value of finance, or lack thereof.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/12/upshot/why-a-harvard-professor-has-mixed-feelings-when-students-take-jobs-in-finance.html?action=click&contentCollection=Science&module=MostEmailed&version=Full&region=Marginalia&src=me&pgtype=article&abt=0002&abg=0

Some interesting reflections on growth and what the future might hold by Haldane of the Bank of England. It includes thoughts on patience – which, although never in itself considered one of the cardinal virtues, is sufficiently close to them to raise interesting moral questions…
http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/Documents/speeches/2015/speech797.pdf