Don Mayer, Arsht Visiting Scholar in Ethics, will present “Getting to ‘The Good Society’: U.S. Research Priorities 2010-2020″ on Friday, October 8 at 12 p.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Sciences Building fourth-floor auditorium.

Mayer is professor in Residence at the Daniels College of Business at the University of Denver and has written widely on international business, law and business ethics. He is co-editor, with Jim O’Toole, of Good Business: Exercising Effective & Ethical Leadership (Routledge 2010).

Since the fall of the Iron Curtain (sometimes described as the triumph of capitalism over communism),  the U.S. finds itself falling behind other nations in terms of several key measures of human thriving:  education, clean water, physical infrastructure and even “the happiness index.”  The much-vaunted “American standard of living”  has been eroding for the past 30 years.

For many, fixing the deficit will require drastic cuts in health and human services spending, while keeping military, Medicare, and Social Security relatively intact. Given the prospects of decreasing funding and increasing needs to rebuild social capital and infrastructure, what scientific research priorities will best meet the needs of the United States and its citizens over the next decade?

Dialogues in Research Ethics is a series of monthly conferences. For more information, contact the UM Ethics Programs at 305-243-5723 or [email protected].