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!