Sunday, November 30, 2014

College Players and Exploitation

College Players Granted Right to Form Union

H/t to Georgia Hollister Isman

Are the Rich More Morally Bankrupt?

My colleague Richard Zeckhauser argues no.

DPI-235 Lecture 25: Exploitation

Readings:

Ruth Sample. “Exploitation and Globalization: Is Globalization Fundamentally Exploitative?” Chapter 5 of Exploitation: What It Is and Why It’s Wrong (Rowman and Littlefield 2003). Group 3

Alan Wertheimer “The Exploitation of Student Athletes” and “Unfair Transactions,” Chapters 3 and 7 of  Exploitation (Princeton University Press, 1999). Group 2


Brian Bix. “Contracts,” Chapter 10 of The Ethics of Consent: Theory and Practice, edited by Franklin Miller and Alan Wertheimer (Oxford University Press, 2009). Group 1

DPI-235 Lecture 24: Commodification

Readings:

Debra Satz. “Noxious Markets” and “Child Labor: A Normative Perspective,” Chapters 4 and 7 of Why Some Things Should Not Be For Sale: The Moral Limits of the Market (Oxford University Press, 2010). Group 2

Margaret Jane Radin. ‘Human Flourishing and Market Rhetoric,” “Incomplete Commodification,” and “Conceptual Recapitulation,” Chapter 6-8 of Contested Commodities (Harvard University Press 2001). Group 1


Regina Austin. “Kwanzaa and the Commodification of Black Culture,” in Rethinking Commodification: Case and Readings in Law and Culture, edited by Martha Ertman and Joan Williams (August 2005). Group 3

The Onion as Marxist News Source?

So says the New Republic.

Whistleblowing and the Big Banks

The $9 Billion Witness: Meet JPMorgan Chase's Worst Nightmare

Some Thoughts on Payday Loans

Payday Loans: A Socially Responsible Industry?