March 14, 2020
The Ethics of Price Gouging
Is it wrong to stock up on hand sanitizer, and try to sell it at a profit? Would it be wrong for stores to increase the price of toilet paper…
Posts filed under exploitation
November 01, 2016
Commodification on Twin Earth
I debated Jennifer Roback Morse this past week on the topic of markets in kidneys, sex, and kids, at the University of Texas (Austin). It was co-hosted by the Austin…
August 30, 2016
These Two Bumptious, Malicious White Dudes Say Adjuncts Aren’t Exploited
Just look at these smug privileged white dudes: While trillions of adjuncts have no access to peer-reviewed journals, these pilgarlics continue to assert their publishing privilege. Just recently, the soi-dissant Journal…
July 08, 2016
CHANGE
Think nothing can be done? Vote for Gary Johnson. Let’s work on getting moralistic and paternalistic laws off the books so that there is less policing in the first place….
March 17, 2016
Inside Higher Ed on Our Adjunct Paper
Inside Higher Ed has a nice write up of my paper with Phil Magness on the cost of providing justice for adjuncts. They also solicited some responses from activists, which, alas,…
December 10, 2015
Estimating the Cost of Adjunct Justice: A Case Study in University Business Ethics
Phil Magness and I now have a paper with that title forthcoming in The Journal of Business Ethics. It’s not as prestigious as a Storify piece, but for some reason publishing…