November 08, 2011
Sweatshops, Exploitation, and Neglect
Ari Kohen responds to my recent post on sweatshops with a few lingering concerns. Among other things, he raises important questions about whether the evils of sweatshop labor can be…
Posts filed under exploitation
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…
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…
May 06, 2011
Libertarianism and the Just Price?
I’ve been listening to Murray Rothbard’s Economic Thought Before Adam Smith: An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, vol. 1, available as a free PDF here or as…