The course provides an overview of finance ethics and caters for students who have no prior knowledge of economics or finance. The course has three main aims:
1. present a brief survey of the workings and underlying assumptions of modern finance (personal and corporative);
2. consider the socio-economic functions and risks of the various institutions of modern finance;
3. examine the ethical problems inherent in modern finance as well as the moral principles that should constrain and regulate it.
The course shall also consider the distinctive views of classical natural law theory and Catholic social teaching on these issues.