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65Citizens' Autonomy and Corporate Cultural PowerJournal of Social Philosophy 51 (2): 205-230. 2020.Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
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35Global reserve currencies from the perspective of structural global justice: distribution and dominationCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 24 (7): 931-953. 2021.
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52Professional Ethics in Banking and the Logic of “Integrated Situations”: Aligning Responsibilities, Recognition, and IncentivesJournal of Business Ethics 156 (2): 531-543. 2019.The paper develops a responsibility-based account of professional ethics in banking. From this perspective, bankers have duties not only toward clients—the traditional focus of professional ethics—but also regarding the prevention of systemic harms to whole societies. When trying to fulfill these duties, bankers have to meet three challenges: epistemic challenges, motivational challenges, and a coordination challenge. These challenges can best be met by a combination of regulation and ethics tha…Read more
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230Workplace democracy—The recent debatePhilosophy Compass 14 (4). 2019.The article reviews the recent debate about workplace democracy. It first presents and critically discusses arguments in favor of democratizing the firm that are based on the analogy with states, meaningful work, the avoidance of unjustified hierarchies, and beneficial effects on political democracy. The second part presents and critically discusses arguments against workplace democracy that are based on considerations of efficiency, the difficulties of a transition towards democratic firms, and…Read more
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37Alan Thomas, Republic of Equals: Predistribution and Property-Owning DemocracyEthics 129 (3): 497-501. 2019.
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105Why economic agency matters: An account of structural domination in the economic realmEuropean Journal of Political Theory 20 (3): 465-485. 2019.Authors like Iris Young and Philip Pettit have come up with proposals for theorizing ‘structural injustice’ and social relations marred by ‘domination’. These authors provide conceptual tools for f...
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178Philosophy of money and financeIn Ed Zalta (ed.), Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2012.
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48Just Wages in Which Markets?Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics 11 (2): 105-123. 2018.Joseph Heath argues that we should reject the idea of a ‘just wage’ because market prices are supposed to signal scarcities and thereby to promote overall efficiency, rather than reward contributions. This argument overlooks the degree to which markets are institutionally, socially, and culturally embedded. Their outcomes are hardly ever ‘pure’ market outcomes, but the result of complex interactions of economic and other factors, including various forms of power. Instead of rejecting moral intui…Read more
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23Global Trade with an Epistemic UpgradeMoral Philosophy and Politics 5 (2): 257-279. 2018.This paper takes a social epistemology perspective on markets in general and trade deals in particular. Normatively, it is based on considerations of democratic accountability and contestation. Empirically, it is based on the assumption that all markets are embedded in institutional frameworks. Knowledge plays an important role in the institutional framework of markets: it matters both at the level of content – which knowledge has to be processed in what way, according to the market rules? – and…Read more
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21Spencer J. Pack's Aristotle, Adam Smith, and Karl Marx: on some fundamental issues in 21st century political economy. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2010, 288 pp (review)Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics 5 (2): 138. 2012.
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10Conference Report: The Many Colours of Hegelianism – Hegel's Philosophy and its International ReceptionHegel Bulletin 31 (2): 120-123. 2010.
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14Realismus statt SonntagsredenDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 66 (3): 383-386. 2018.Name der Zeitschrift: Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie Jahrgang: 66 Heft: 3 Seiten: 383-386.
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18Performance and Progress: Essays on Capitalism, Business, and Society, edited by Subramanian Rangan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. 472 pp. ISBN: 978-0198744283 (review)Business Ethics Quarterly 27 (1): 143-146. 2017.
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17Book Review: Geschichte des Kapitalismus, by Jürgen KockaGeschichte des Kapitalismus, by KockaJürgen. Munich: C. H. Beck, 2013 (review)Political Theory 43 (3): 420-423. 2015.(book review)
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21The game you are in: Misleading through social norms and what’s wrong with itFilozofija I Društvo 28 (2): 250-269. 2017.This paper discusses the phenomenon of misleading about “the game you are in.” Individuals who mislead others in this way draw on the fact that we rely on social norms for regulating the levels of alertness, openness, and trust we use in different epistemic situations. By pretending to be in a certain game with a certain epistemic situation, they can entice others to reveal information or to exhibit low levels of alertness, thereby acting against their own interests. I delineate this phenomenon …Read more
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401Wer sind wir, wenn wir arbeiten? Soziale Identität im Markt bei Smith und HegelDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 59 (6): 835-852. 2011.This article examines the ways in which Adam Smith and G. W. F Hegel conceptualize the identity of workers in a market economy. Although both see human beings as shaped in and through social rela- tionships, the relation between the worker and his work is seen in different ways. For Smith, workers “have” human capital, while for Hegel workers “are” brewers, butchers or bakers;; their profession is part of their identity. This conceptual difference, which is reflected in different “varieties of c…Read more
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47Ideal and Non‐ideal Theory and the Problem of KnowledgeJournal of Applied Philosophy 29 (4): 271-288. 2012.This article analyses a hitherto neglected problem at the transition from ideal to non‐ideal theory: the problem of knowledge. Ideal theories often make idealising assumptions about the availability of knowledge, for example knowledge of social scientific facts. This can lead to problems when this knowledge turns out not to be available at the non‐ideal level. Knowledge can be unavailable in a number of ways: in principle, for practical reasons, or because there are normative reasons not to use …Read more
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21Two Ways of “Taming” the MarketProceedings of the Hegel Society of America 22 147-162. 2015.This paper discusses, in a comparative perspective, the two institutions in Hegel’s account civil society in the Philosophy of Right that aim at ‘taming’ the free market: the police and the corporations. It argues that although Hegel claims to have taken up the insights of the economists of his day, he has done so in a rather limited way, and he remains sceptical about many of the ‘laws’ formulated by economists. In order to derive such laws, economists reduce individual preferences to a few cat…Read more
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26Just Financial Markets?: Finance in a Just Society (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2017.This volume brings together leading scholars from political theory, law, and economics in order to discuss the relationship between financial markets and justice, and invites us to rethink the place and role of financial markets in our societies.
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1111 Hegel als Denker des MarktesIn Ludwig Siep (ed.), G. W. F. Hegel: Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts, Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag. pp. 209-224. 2014.The chapter provides an overview of Hegel's account of the market in his chapter on "civil society.
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29Qualified market access and inter-disciplinarityEthics and Global Politics 7 (2): 83-94. 2014.This note offers reflections on qualified market access —the practice of linking trade agreements to values such as human rights, labour standards, or environmental protection. This idea has been suggested by political theorists as a way of fulfilling our duties to the global poor and of making the global economic system more just, and it has influenced a number of concrete policies, such as European Union trade policies. Yet, in order to assess its merits tout court, different perspectives and …Read more
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27Hegel's Thought in Europe: Currents, Crosscurrents and Undercurrents (edited book)Palgrave. 2013.It is not clear what the intellectual history of the last 200 years would have looked like without the philosophy of G.W.F. Hegel, but it is clear that it would have looked different. His vast intellectual system was taken up by thinkers from left to right, and from very different philosophical schools. This volume brings together accessible, concise essays from leading scholars that present important currents of Hegelian thought in different European countries, including pre-revolutionary Russi…Read more
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55Adam Smith’s Account of Justice Between Naturalness and HistoricityJournal of the History of Philosophy 52 (4): 703-726. 2014.adam smith1 is often taken to be an heir to the natural jurisprudence tradition, to which he explicitly refers in several places in his oeuvre.2 He combines it with an account of the moral sentiments, in which he sees the origin of morality and justice.3 The moral sentiments, as explored in The Theory of Moral Sentiments, are the basis for justice, which, embodied in positive law, is the framework for commercial society, the economy of which Smith explores in the Wealth of Nations. in this sense…Read more
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40Was bedeutet es, "Märkte einzubetten"? Eine TaxonomieZeitschrift für Praktische Philosophie 3 (1): 13-52. 2016.Der Aufsatz untersucht, was mit der Metapher von der moralischen "Einbettung" von Märkten gemeint ist. Zunächst werden verschiedene Formen der deskriptiven Einbettung - soziologisch, rechtlich, und institutionell - unerschieden, was zu der These führt, dass kein Markt in einem deskriptiven Sinn „uneingebettet“ ist, und dass die Frage nach Einbettung nicht alleine durch die Betrachtung von Märkten beantwortet werden kann, sondern eine breitere institutionelle Analyse erfordert. Anschließend wird …Read more
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18„Moral Luck“ in Moral und RechtArchiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie 99 (2): 212-227. 2013.A case of Moral Luck occurs whenever we normatively assess agents for things that depend on factors beyond their control. The paper takes a comparative approach and examines how morality and law deal with such cases. The comparative perspective allows us to explain the problem of Moral Luck as a tension inherent in normative orders: While normative orders are based on a strong connection between responsibility and voluntariness, this idealist assumption is at least partly at odds with their func…Read more
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29Eigentumsrechte im FinanzsystemDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 62 (3). 2014.This paper asks how property rights in the financial system can be nor- matively justified. It argues that in the current financial system, we find property rights with very different normative bases, some of which are stronger than others. In fact, there is a systematic gap between the normative priorities (which property rights deserve protection?) and the de facto priorities (which property rights are in fact protected?). I draw on the three traditional approaches for justifying property righ…Read more
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53The Community of Commerce: Smith's Rhetoric of Sympathy in the Opening of the Wealth of NationsPhilosophy and Rhetoric 46 (1): 65-87. 2013.In the late 1740s a young man who had just returned from Oxford to his native Scotland gave a series of lectures on rhetoric and belles lettres in Edinburgh. This man was no other than Adam Smith, who would soon become famous for his writings about moral philosophy and, most of all, economic issues. Smith the moral philosopher and Smith the economist quickly overshadowed Smith the theoretician of rhetoric. Even in today’s scholarly perception the curious fact that the founder of economics made h…Read more
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66Inventing the Market: Smith, Hegel, and Political TheoryOxford University Press. 2013.Inventing the Market explores two paradigms of the market in the thought of Adam Smith and G.W.F. Hegel, bridging the gap between economics and philosophy, it shows that both disciplines can profit from a broader, more historically situated ...
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University of GroningenAssociate Professor
University of Oxford
DPhil, 2011
Areas of Specialization
Social and Political Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Normative Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |
19th Century Philosophy |