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Markets in Votes! Plenary Address at the 9th Annual Conference of the Felician Institute for Ethics and Public Affairs

I’m very pleased to say that I’ll be delivering the Plenary Address at the 9th Annual Conference of the Felician Institute for Ethics and Public Affairs this Saturday. I’ll be offering a moral defense of markets in votes–where I defend treating votes as commodities. (So, no weak-kneed, nampy-pamby talk of “paid performance”, Brennan!) This will be a VERY different talk from my earlier defenses of vote markets (such as this, and this, from 2012), which I now think were rather wrong-headed.

I’m also very pleased to say that  while at the conference I’ll be chairing what promises to be a very interesting session on “Rawlsian Liberalism and Bleeding Heart Libertarianism,” with papers by Jeppe von Platz (“A Rawlsian Theory of Economic Rights”) and Jacob Sparks (“Can’t Buy Me Love – Corruption and Semiotics: A Response to Jaworski and Brennan”).

I hope to see you there!

 

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Author: James Taylor
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