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67Suppressing liberty, censoring information, wasting resources, and calling it good for the environment: J. R. Clark and Dwight R. Lee (review)Social Philosophy and Policy 26 (2): 272-295. 2009.This paper considers prevailing environmental policy in the United States with the emphasis on liberty, markets, utilizing information, entrepreneurial discovery, and the economic analysis of political decisions. The general discussion is illustrated by the concern over global warming and policies for addressing this concern. The political incentives to confront environmental problems directly with mandates, restrictions, and subsidies ignore the power of liberty and market incentives to solve p…Read more
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The slave whisperer rides the frontier : horseface minstrelsy in the westernIn Sarah E. McFarland & Ryan Hediger (eds.), Animals and agency: an interdisciplinary exploration, Brill. 2009.
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42Economic Migration and JusticeInternational Journal of Applied Philosophy 19 (1): 45-61. 2005.Our main thesis is that the U.S. has a duty of justice to adopt an open-border policy with regard to economic migrants because it is significantly responsible for the unjust social and economic conditions that bring such migrants to its borders. From this perspective, President Bush’s recent “guest worker” proposal is morally objectionable because it is designed more to serve U.S. business interests than the interests of the migrants. We address three objections to opening borders: it will worse…Read more
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Areas of Interest
Epistemology |
Applied Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
Philosophy of Law |