November 03, 2011
Shouldn’t Sweatshops Do More?
Sophisticated critics of sweatshop labor recognize that sweatshop jobs make workers better off, but argue that sweatshops should do more to improve the lives of workers – that they should make them…
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October 31, 2011
Does Inequality Matter?
A common theme among the Occupy Wall Street crowd and its supporters is that inequality in the United States has skyrocketed over the last thirty years. Often, statistics about increasing inequality – and income…
October 24, 2011
Answering the Left-Libertarian Critique of Sweatshops
Ben Powell and I have a new paper coming out in the Journal of Business Ethics in which we defend what we take to be the mainstream libertarian position on…
October 07, 2011
On the Wall Street Protests
These protests raise an interesting philosophical puzzle, identified by my friend and co-author Guido Pincione of the University of Arizona. If someone asks me if I support the protesters (assuming…
October 07, 2011
What is the Point of BHL?
After Matt’s recent on-line interviews where he discussed BHL (for example, here–well worth listening to, as is another on Kosmos), I saw numerous comments circulating about the view. Some of…
September 13, 2011
The Libertarian Critique of Distributive Justice
There’s a common argument that libertarians make against the idea of social or distributive justice. The argument, made by both Robert Nozick and Friedrich Hayek, purports to show not merely…