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14Nurturing the Sense of JusticeIn Martin O'Neill & Thad Williamson (eds.), Property‐Owning Democracy, Wiley‐blackwell. 2012-02-17.This chapter contains sections titled: Two Forms of Property‐Owning Democracy What Is Stability? Why Does It Matter? The Sense of Justice Participation in Public Life Three Distinctive Features of Rawls's View Democratic Corporatism and Participation Objections Conclusion References.
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44Markets, just like states, are systems of governance. Their justification must therefore meet similar standards of moral scrutiny, despite the fact that their authority structure is impersonal. In order to argue for the role of markets as systems of governance that raise similar justificatory burdens, this book provides a philosophical account of market institutions. According to this view, shared social institutions define a framework for how members of a political community think and act towar…Read more
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109Accountable to Whom? Rethinking the Role of Corporations in Political CSRJournal of Business Ethics 149 (3): 519-534. 2018.According to Palazzo and Scherer, the changing role of business corporations in society requires that we take new measures to integrate these organizations into society-wide processes of democratic governance. We argue that their model of integration has a fundamental problem. Instead of treating business corporations as agents that must be held accountable to the democratic reasoning of affected parties, it treats corporations as agents who can hold others accountable. In our terminology, it tr…Read more
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245Pitting People Against Each OtherPhilosophy and Public Affairs 48 (1): 79-113. 2020.Philosophy &Public Affairs, Volume 48, Issue 1, Page 79-113, Winter 2020.
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22Firms as Political Entities: Saving Democracy through Economic Bicameralism, by Isabelle Ferreras. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. 213 pp (review)Business Ethics Quarterly 30 (1): 159-163. 2020.
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66Why should we care about competition?Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 1-16. 2017.
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44Democratic capitalism and respect for the value of freedomInternational Journal of Business Governance and Ethics 2 (s 3-4): 280-293. 2006.Most theorists believe that when it comes to freedom, no economic system does better than laissez-faire capitalism the system may have other problems, but as far as freedom is concerned, laissez-faire is as good as it gets. The goal of this paper is to show that this view is mistaken. I begin by criticising two important contemporary conceptions of freedom, the libertarian and the liberal egalitarian conceptions, both of which support the dominant view. I then develop a better alternative, one t…Read more
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60The Unromantic Rousseauian: Scanlon on Justice, Value Coherence and FreedomJournal of Moral Philosophy 10 (4): 515-542. 2013.
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122Corporations, profit maximization and the personal sphereEconomics and Philosophy 28 (3): 311-331. 2012.The efficiency argument for profit maximization says that corporations and their managers should maximize profits because this is the course of action that will lead to an ‘economically efficient’ or ‘welfare maximizing’ outcome. In this paper, I argue that the fundamental problem with this argument is not that markets in the real world are less than perfect, but rather that the argument does not properly acknowledge the personal sphere. Morality allows each of us a sphere in which we are free t…Read more
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42The Ethical Dimension of Class Society (review)Social Theory and Practice 33 (2): 335-344. 2007.
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203Is Ethical Consumerism an Impermissible Form of Vigilantism?Philosophy and Public Affairs 40 (2): 111-143. 2012.
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51The Rawlsian Argument for Democratic CorporatismIn Martin O'Neill & Thad Williamson (eds.), Property-Owning Democracy: Rawls and Beyond, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 180. 2012.
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26No More Lemmings, Please – Reflections on the Communal Authority ThesisJournal of Business Ethics 88 (S4): 717-728. 2009.A key feature of ISCT is the claim that individuals are required to comply with the norms that are "accepted by a clear majority of the community as standing for an ethical principle" [Donaldson and Dunfee, 1999, "The Ties that Bind", p. 39], so long as these norms are consistent with hypernorms. I refer to this as the communal authority thesis. Many people see the communal authority thesis as an attractive feature of ISCT, a welcome move away from the abstraction of principle-based ethical theo…Read more
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153Autonomy, Frankfurt, and the nature of reflective endorsementJournal of Value Inquiry 44 (1): 61-79. 2010.
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