My friend David Sobel argues that even if sweatshops are benefiting the global poor, this doesn’t mean that they are fulfilling whatever obligations they might have to aid the less fortunate:…
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…
This post suggests that Elizabeth Warren’s “there is nobody in this country who got rich on his own” is a deliciously ironic appropriation of Adam Smith’s insights about economic interdependence…
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…
Something a little different from my regular posts. Long ago, Plato asked if we would do better with good rules or good rulers. If we could attain utopia, wherein people…
but this unexpected comic at Zach Weiner’s Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal seems to just call out for a B-HL link.