Rushworth Kidder

Rushworth Moulton Kidder (May 8, 1944 – March 5, 2012) founded the Institute for Global Ethics in 1990, and is the author of Moral Courage and How Good People Make Tough Choices: Resolving the Dilemmas of Ethical Living. He was born in Amherst, Massachusetts. He worked as a columnist and editor for The Christian Science Monitor. Kidder died in 2012 of natural causes in Naples, Florida at the age of 67. Kidder earned a doctorate from Columbia University in English and comparative literature^[1] and wrote the foreword to Compassion Wins, by Godfrey John.^[2]

Selected bibliography

• Good Kids, Tough Choices: How Parents Can Help Their Children Do the Right Thing"(2010), ISBN 978-0-470-54762-5
• The Ethics Recession: Reflections on the Moral Underpinnings of the Current Economic Crisis"(2009), ISBN 0-615-27535-4
• Moral Courage (2005), ISBN 0-06-059154-4
• How Good People Make Tough Choices: Resolving the Dilemmas of Ethical Living (1995), ISBN 0-688-13442-4
• Shared Values for a Troubled World: Conversations With Men and Women of Conscience (1994), ISBN 1-55542-603-4
• "Heartland Ethics: Voices from the American Midwest" editor (1992), ISBN 1-881601-00-5
• "In the Backyards of Our Lives" (1992), ISBN 978-0-89909-343-7
• Reinventing the Future: Global Goals for the 21st Century (1989), ISBN 0-262-11146-2

References

1. "Rushworth Kidder dies; ethicist, writer was 67 | The Portland Press Herald / Maine Sunday Telegram". Pressherald.com. Retrieved 2012-03-07.
2. Godfrey John, Compassion Wins (2001), pp. v-vi. ISBN 0-9707341-0-7

External links

• Institute for Global Ethics