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The In-House Ethicist provides you new ways of thinking about the moral dilemmas we face when we're at work, out in society, or in the privacy of our own homes. Host John Paul Rollert doesn't give you feel good, cookie-cutter answers or bullet point to-do lists. You're already on LinkedIn. Instead, He takes the "Great Books" approach the University of Chicago is famous for, drawing on lessons from history, literature, philosophy, and political economy as well as popular politics, contemporary culture, and the modern business experience. If you want to be challenged to think a little harder and learn something completely new, then you're in the right place.A Chicago Booth Review podcast.
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Signup to Generate a PitchThe In-House Ethicist provides you new ways of thinking about the moral dilemmas we face when we're at work, out in society, or in the privacy of our own homes. Host John Paul Rollert doesn't give you feel good, cookie-cutter answers or bullet point to-do lists. You're already on LinkedIn.
The In-House Ethicist is hosted by John Paul Rollert. The show has published 28 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "I'm Losing Adam Smith's Religion" (15 October 2026, 19 minutes), "Soon We'll All Be Influencers" (18 September 2026, 18 minutes), and "Money On My Mind" (20 August 2026, 16 minutes).
The In-House Ethicist publishes roughly monthly, with episodes averaging 18 minutes across 28 episodes.
Booking probability for The In-House Ethicist is 31%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The In-House Ethicist requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The In-House Ethicist's contact route on record: verified email.
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John Paul Rollert hosts The In-House Ethicist, a business podcast with 28 episodes published.
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Episode #26
Over the past decade, polls have consistently shown that young people are far less enamored with capitalism than the generations that preceded them. Their crisis of faith in the system is met with consternation by their...
Episode #26
What will the world look like for our grandchildren a century from now? The economist John Maynard Keynes famously asked this question in his 1928 essay, "Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren," and the future he...
Episode #25
Money weighs on the minds of almost everyone from time to time, but the way a rich person tracks his stock gains and the poor man tallies his pennies is different in degree and kind. In this episode of the In-House...
Episode #24
When it was first published in The New York Times in 1970, Milton Friedman's "The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits" heralded a new way of thinking about the mission of a company and helped to...
Episode #23
<p>Today, when we think of craft-based products, we tend to think of high end goods: Ferraris, Ferragamo shoes, and fine wines. But are the crafts merely reserved for the super wealthy, and what can we learn from the...
<p>You don't need to be a card carrying communist to appreciate the familiar tension between employees and management, but what happens when your boss is an app? In this episode of the In-House Ethicist, John Paul...
Episode #29
<p>Money can buy you a lot of nice things, but what about when its power goes beyond the ability to purchase a penthouse or a Porsche? When money allows us to buy non-material goods – such as status, power, or personal...
Episode #20
<p >Trust is crucial in commercial transactions. We want to know if the people we do business with are reliable, but if we don't know them personally, how can we be so sure that we should trust the individual on the...
Episode #19
<p >When it comes to marketing, negotiations, and salesmanship, companies seem to tolerate a lot of what we might call "little white lies." Does such permissiveness say something essential about business, or does it say...
Episode #26
<p>When it comes to buying and selling, is fairness really just a matter of whatever the market will bear? In this episode of the In-House Ethicist, John Paul Rollert probes the question of a fair price by sharing the...
<p>As children, the way our parents look at us often gives us the impression that we are the most important person in the world. Yet as we grow older, we often find that we've gone from being the center of the universe...
Episode #17
<p>There is a group of young men online who spend a lot of time talking about what they call "productivity hacks." They are obsessed with how to make their days more productive, but their advice seems more consistent...
Episode #16
<p >Being at the head of the class has many benefits, but we all know that academic success isn't a one way ticket to the C-Suite. What the classroom rewards and what professional success requires are not one and the...
Episode #19
<p>Unless you're a sociopath, it's normal to feel like there are some duties you owe others and to the world around you. We feel compelled to clean up after ourselves when we make a mess or to check in Mom when she...
Episode #15
<p>When people think about capitalism, they don't think of abstract ideas at the heart of an economic system. They think about the things that system produces: the products, the companies, and perhaps most notably, the...
Episode #14
<p>Is the customer always right? In a world in which all sales are final, some buyers are bound to get duped. But if the customer's always right, what can retailers do about unreasonable customers? In this episode of...
<p>Why is being frugal a virtue? And where exactly do we draw the line between being "frugal" and being "cheap"? In this episode of The In-House Ethicist, John Paul Rollert traces the history of frugality from the 18th...
Episode #12
<p>Michael Lewis's Liar's Poker is a frank and ugly behind-the-scenes account of life as a young associate in the world of Wall St finance. The book is 35 years old, but the basic dilemma at its heart – whether follow...
Episode #11
<p>Stakeholder capitalism is the idea that business should be about more than just making money. That seems a world away from the brash financial types of Bret Easton Ellis's 1991 novel 'American Psycho,' or the 1987...
Episode #10
<p>Some people say that you don't help the poor by giving them money, but by giving them opportunities to earn money. This is behind the periodic campaigns to limit welfare benefits in order to encourage work. But is a...
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