Should Professionals Be Political?
The URLs given below have not yet been reviewed or arranged: therefore you will have to take them as you find them.  Doubtless many of these links will disappear from here when I have time to do this review.
  • L. G. Lewis, Jr., The Cultivation of Professional Ethics, National Society of Professional Engineers,
  • Murray Gleeson, The Changing Paradigm, Women Lawyers' Association of New South Wales, 1999 October 26
        Murray Gleeson, Are The Professions Worth Keeping?, Greek-Australian International Legal & Medical Conference, 1999 May 31
      J. J. Spigelman, St. James Lecture?, The Medico-Legal Society of New South Wales, 1999 August 6
      J. J. Spigelman, Are Lawyers Lemons? Competition Principles and Professional Regulation, The 2002 Lawyer's Lecture, St. James Ethics Centre, 2002 October 29
  • The Australian Council of Professions, Policies
  • Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations (also Library of Economics ..., summary, contents)
  • Paul Krugman, In Media Res, New York Times, 2002 November 29 (will the economic interests of the media undermine objective news coverage?)
  • Jeffrey L. Seglin, Wanted: More Civility, Not Civil Suits, New York Times, 2002 December 15 (stamping out abuse in the judicial system demands a restoration of ethical common sense on the part of company executives, lawyers and individuals)
  • Jonathan D. Glater, A Legal Uproar Over Proposals to Regulate the Profession, New York Times, 2002 December 17 (lawyers have organized to block conduct standards, arguing that such proposals would damage their relationships with clients)
  • John Naughton, A conspiracy against the public, The Observer, 2003 March 16 (neither conspiracy nor cock-up theories are much use in explaining why so much legislation about the internet is pernicious)
  • Helen Sewell, Environmentalist wins $1m prize, BBC, 2003 March 19 (Templeton Prize winner Holmes Rolston says global warming is a bigger issue than Iraq)
  • Peter Rojas, Dotcom's fishy ending, The Guardian, 2003 March 20 (why technology is more interesting than ever)
  • Ross Gittens, The International Monetary Fund does a www - we were wrong, The Age, 2003 March 28 (the International Monetary Fund is a humbled institution; it has just published a report on the effects of financial globalisation on developing countries that is the biggest climb-down by an international body in a long time)
  • Graeme Philipson, Bracing for the global shift, The Age, 2003 March 18 (we are now witnessing, on a global scale, the kind of disruption that occurred in the English countryside in the industrial revolution of 200 years ago, but now it is the export of white-collar jobs)
  • OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements, The Age, 2003 April 21 (the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has stopped providing funding for a project which involves OpenBSD, apparently because OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt made statements which could be considered anti-war to a Canadian newspaper)
  • The Economist, Public office and private interest 2003 April 17 (is collusion between government and big business increasing in America?)
  • Leon Gettler, Corporations performing badly: it's a matter of brain behaviour, The Age, 2003 June 19 (humankind has created a business environment that is beyond the capability of the human brain)
  • Simon Caulkin, Capitalism's grand delusion, The Observer, 2003 June 29 (economist John Kay believes big ideas are bad for business)
  • John Naughton, Don't get mad, get political, The Observer, 2003 July 13 (control of information has always been a tool of regimes, and anything that threatens to loosen that grip will be resisted)