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1IntroductionIn Benjamin Ferguson & Matt Zwolinski (eds.), Exploitation: perspectives from philosophy, politics, and economics, Oxford University Press. pp. 1-9. 2023.Exploitation: Perspectives from Philosophy, Politics, and Economics brings together recent work on the topic of exploitation from philosophy, political science, and economics in one volume, organized around three main questions: What is exploitation? Why is exploitation wrong? What should we do about it? These questions are increasingly relevant in public policy discussions. The past decade has witnessed the rise of populism and an increasing sense that politics is a game rigged to benefit certa…Read more
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IntroductionIn Matt Zwolinski & Benjamin Ferguson (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Libertarianism, Routledge. pp. 1-9. 2022.Strict libertarianism, as one of us has defined it elsewhere, is “a radical political view which holds that individual liberty, understood as the absence of interference with a person’s body and rightfully acquired property, is a moral absolute or near-absolute, and that the only governmental activities consistent with that liberty are (if any) those necessary to protect individuals from aggression by others.” Strict libertarianism is a radicalized form of classical liberalism that is, character…Read more
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46Exploitation: perspectives from philosophy, politics, and economics (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2023.This book brings together recent work on the topic of exploitation from philosophy, political science, and economics in one volume, organised around three main questions: what is exploitation?, why is exploitation wrong?, and what should we do about it? These questions are increasingly relevant in public policy discussions. The past decade has witnessed the rise of populism and an increasing sense that politics is a game rigged to benefit certain classes of persons at the expense of others. Inte…Read more
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325The Ethical and Economic Case Against Sweatshop Labor: A Critical Assessment (review)Journal of Business Ethics 107 (4): 449-472. 2012.During the last decade, scholarly criticism of sweatshops has grown increasingly sophisticated. This article reviews the new moral and economic foundations of these criticisms and argues that they are flawed. It seeks to advance the debate over sweatshops by noting the extent to which the case for sweatshops does, and does not, depend on the existence of competitive markets. It attempts to more carefully distinguish between different ways in which various parties might seek to modify sweatshop b…Read more
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32The Routledge Companion to Libertarianism (edited book)Routledge. 2022.This handbook is the first definitive reference on libertarianism that offers an in-depth survey of the central ideas from across philosophy, politics and economics, including applications to contemporary policy issues.
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Exploitation and consentIn Peter Schaber & Andreas Müller (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Consent, Routledge. 2018.
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A critique of Ayn Rand's theory of rights: response to Miller and MossoffIn Gregory Salmieri & Robert Mayhew (eds.), Foundations of a Free Society: Reflections on Ayn Rand's Political Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh Press. 2019.
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14The individualists: radicals, reactionaries, and the struggle for the soul of libertarianismPrinceton University Press. 2023.Is libertarianism a progressive doctrine, or a reactionary one? Does libertarianism promise to liberate the poor and the marginalized from the yoke of state oppression, or does talk of "equal liberty" obscure the ways in which libertarian doctrines serve the interests of the rich and powerful? Through an examination of the history of libertarianism, this book argues that the answer is (and always has been): both. In this book we explore the neglected 19th century roots of libertarianism to show …Read more
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619. Beyond the Difference Principle: Rawlsian Justice, Business Ethics, and the Morality of the MarketIn Eugene Heath & Byron Kaldis (eds.), Wealth, Commerce, and Philosophy: Foundational Thinkers and Business Ethics, University of Chicago Press. pp. 381-400. 2017.
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21Review of Give People Money: How a Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World by Annie Lowrey: Crown, 2018, 272 pp., ISBN: 978-1524758769 (review)Journal of Business Ethics 162 (1): 247-249. 2020.
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31Rights, Reasonableness, and Environmental HarmsAmerican Journal of Bioethics 18 (3): 46-48. 2018.
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34Basic Income: A Radical Proposal for a Free Society and a Sane Economy, Philippe van Parijs and Yannick Vanderborght , 400 pp., $29.95 cloth (review)Ethics and International Affairs 31 (4): 523-526. 2017.
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47The libertarian nonaggression principleSocial Philosophy and Policy 32 (2): 62-90. 2016.Libertarianism is a controversial political theory. But it is often presented as a resting upon a simple, indeed commonsense, moral principle. The libertarian “Non-Aggression Principle” (NAP) prohibits aggression against the persons or property of others, and it is on this basis that the libertarian opposition to redistributive taxation, legal paternalism, and perhaps even the state itself is thought to rest. This paper critically examines the NAP and the extent to which it can provide support f…Read more
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88Dialogue on Price Gouging: Price Gouging, Non-Worseness, and Distributive JusticeBusiness Ethics Quarterly 19 (2): 295-306. 2009.ABSTRACT:This commentary develops my position on the ethics of price gouging in response to Jeremy Snyder's article, “What's the Matter with Price Gouging.” First, it explains how the “nonworseness claim” supports the moral permissibility of price gouging, even if it does not show that price gougers are morally virtuous agents. Second, it argues that questions about price gouging and distributive justice must be answered in light of the relevant possible institutional alternatives, and that Snyd…Read more
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201Recent Work in Ethical Theory and its Implications for Business EthicsBusiness Ethics Quarterly 20 (4): 559-581. 2010.We review recent developments in ethical pluralism, ethical particularism, Kantian intuitionism, rights theory, and climate change ethics, and show the relevance of these developments in ethical theory to contemporary business ethics. This paper explains why pluralists think that ethical decisions should be guided by multiple standards and why particularists emphasize the crucial role of context in determining sound moral judgments. We explain why Kantian intuitionism emphasizes the discerning p…Read more
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21Van Donselaar, Gijs. The Right to Exploit: Parasitism, Scarcity, Basic Income. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. 195. $65.00 (review)Ethics 121 (1): 228-232. 2010.
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710Sweatshops, Choice, and ExploitationBusiness Ethics Quarterly 17 (4): 689-727. 2007.This paper argues that a sweatshop worker's choice to accept the conditions of his or her employment is morally significant, both as an exercise of autonomy and as an expression of preference. This fact establishes a moral claim against interference in the conditions of sweatshop labor by third parties such as governments or consumer boycott groups. It should also lead us to doubt those who call for MNEs to voluntarily improve working conditions, at least when their arguments are based on the cl…Read more
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83Review of Autonomy and Rights: The Moral Foundations of Liberalism (review)Journal of Value Inquiry 43 (2): 255-262. 2009.This is a review of Horacio Spector's book on the occassion of its publiaction in paperback form in 2007. The version of the review posted here includes a number of footnotes and references that had to be deleted in the final published version.
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101Environmental Virtue Ethics: What It Is and What It Needs to BeIn Daniel C. Russell (ed.), The Cambridge companion to virtue ethics, Cambridge University Press. pp. 221. 2013.
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166The separateness of persons and liberal theoryJournal of Value Inquiry 42 (2): 147-165. 2008.The fact that persons are separate in some descriptive sense is relatively uncontroversial. But one of the distinctive ideas of contemporary liberal political philosophy is that the descriptive fact of our separateness is normatively momentous. John Rawls and Robert Nozick both take the separateness of persons to provide a foundation for their rejection of utilitarianism and for their own positive political theories. So why do their respective versions of liberalism look so different? This paper…Read more
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Gijs Van Donselaar, The Right to Exploit: Parasitism, Scarcity, Basic IncomeEthics 121 (1): 228. 2010.
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65Review of Dale Jamieson, ed. A Companion to Environmental Philosophy (review)Environmental Ethics 25 (1): 99-104. 2003.
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111Virtue ethics and repugnant conclusionsIn Philip Cafaro & Ronald Sandler (eds.), Environmental Virtue Ethics, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. pp. 107--17. 2005.Both utilitarian and deontological moral theories locate the source of our moral beliefs in the wrong sorts of considerations. One way this failure manifests itself, we argue, is in the ways these theories analyze the proper human relationship toward the non-human environment. Another, more notorious, manifestation of this failure is found in Derek Parfit's Repugnant Conclusion. Our goal is to explore the connection between these two failures, and to suggest that they are failures of act-centere…Read more
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346Structural exploitationSocial Philosophy and Policy 29 (1): 154-179. 2012.Research Articles Matt Zwolinski, Social Philosophy and Policy, FirstView Article
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