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?

On Inheritance and Piketty

Inheritance and Inequality

DPI-235 Lecture 23: Economic Reparations

Readings:

Ta-Nehisi Coates. “The Case for Reparations,” in The Atlantic (May, 2014) Group 3

Debra Satz. “Countering the Wrongs of the Past: The Role of Reparations,” Chapter 8 of Reparations: Interdisciplinary Inquiries, edited by Jon Miller and Rahul Kumar (Oxford University Press 2007). Group 2


Kok-Chor Tan. “Colonialism, Reparations, and Global Justice,” Chapter 12 of Reparations: Interdisciplinary Inquiries, edited by Jon Miller and Rahul Kumar (Oxford University Press 2007). Group 1

DPI-235 Lecture 22: Ethics of Regulation

Readings:

Loren Lomansky. “Liberty After Lehman Brothers,” in Liberalism and Capitalism: Volume 28, Part 2, Social Philosophy and Policy (Cambridge University Press 2011). Groups 1-2


Jonathan Wolff. “Market Failure, Common Interests, and the Titanic Puzzle,” Chapter 12 of Egalitarianism: New Essays on the Nature and Value of Equality (Oxford University Press, 2007). Group 3

DPI-235 Lecture 21: Health and Economic Inequality

Readings:

Norman Daniels, Bruce Kennedy and Ichiro Kawachi. “Justice is Good For Our Health,” Chapter 1 of Is Inequality Bad For Our Health, edited by Norman Daniels, Bruce Kennedy and Ichiro Kawachi (Beacon Press 2001). Optional

Normal Daniels. “Capabilities, Opportunity, and Health,” Chapter 6 of Measuring Justice: Primary Goods and Capabilities, edited by Harry Brighouse and Ingrid Robeyns (Cambridge University Press 2010). Group 1

Daniel Wikler. “Personal and Social Responsibility for Health,” Chapter 6 of Public Health, Ethics and Equity, edited by Sudhir Anand, Fabienne Peter and Amartya Sen (Oxford University Press 2006). Group 2


Daniel Hausman. “A Lockean Argument for Universal Access to Health Care,” in Liberalism and Capitalism: Volume 28, Part 2, Social Philosophy and Policy (Cambridge University Press 2011). Group 3

Basic Income in Switzerland

Swiss Initiative Would Give $2,800 a Month to Everyone—No Strings Attached

H/t to Carolyn Anderson

Composition of Congress

Half of Congress Members Are Millionaires, Report Says

And more.

Another look. 


H/t to Matthew Gibson

Cost of Senate Elections

Outside Spending Increases the Price of Senate Elections

H/t to Carolyn Anderson

DPI-235 Lecture 20: Redistributive and Socialist Plans

Readings:

Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis. “Efficient Redistribution: New Rules for Markets, States and Communities,” Chapter 1 of Recasting Egalitarianism: New Rules for Communities, States and Markets, edited by Samuel Bowles, Harry Brighouse and Herbet Gintis. (Verso 1999). Groups 2-3


John Roemer. “A Future for Socialism,” Chapter 1 of Equal Shares: Making Market Socialism Work, edited by John Roemer and Erik Olin Wright (Verson 1996). Group 1