Freedom rising : a reconstruction of historical materialism by Debra M. Satz.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1987.MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND HUMANITIES.Bibliography: leaves 192-195.Ph.D

The ethics of characterizing difference: guiding principles on using racial categories in human genetics

We are a multidisciplinary group of Stanford faculty who propose ten principles to guide the use of racial and ethnic categories when characterizing group differences in research into human genetic variation

The Limits to Moral Erosion in Markets: Social Norms and the Replacement Excuse

This paper studies the impact of a key feature of competitive markets on moral behavior: the possibility that a competitor will step in and conclude the deal if a conscientious market actor forgoes a profitable business opportunity for ethical reasons. We study experimentally whether people employ the argument "if I don’t do it, someone else will" to justify taking a narrowly self-interested action. Our data reveal a clear pattern. Subjects do not employ the "replacement excuse" if a social norm exists that classifies the selfish action as immoral. But if no social norm exists, subjects are more inclined to take a selfish action in situations where another subject can otherwise take it. By demonstrating the importance of social norms of moral behavior for limiting the power of the replacement excuse, our paper informs the long-standing debate on the effect of markets on morals

Por qué ciertas cosas no deberían estar a la venta : los límites morales de los mercados : los mercados en la reproducción femenina

Muchas personas creen que la función del mercado en la reproducción femenina, como lo ejemplifica el caso de los contratos de embarazo, es más problemática que en otros mercados de trabajo aceptados actualmente. La autora denomina a esta problemática como la “tesis de la asimetría” porque quienes la proponen consideran que debe haber una asimetría entre nuestra valoración de los mercados en la reproducción femenina y la valoración de los mercados en otras formas de trabajo. La autora busca criticar muchas de las más aceptadas defensas a la teoría de la asimetría y ofrecer una defensa alternativa, basada en la idea de “igualdad de estado”

The government provision of specific, in kind goods : a defence

Lecture delivered at the European University Institute in Florence on 15 May 2018A vdieo interview with the presenter was recorded on 16 May 2018The belief in the more or less universal superiority of the government’s provision of unrestricted cash over in kind goods can be usefully contrasted with an older tradition of thought. According to that tradition, the provision of some goods is so fundamental to our equal standing as citizens that these goods should be treated just as we treat national defense –distributed in kind by the government more or less equally to all--even in the absence of market failure. In Musgrave’s (1957) terminology, these are merit goods – goods that could be supplied by the market according to people’s consumer preferences, but that society has reason to distribute in a different way. Ethical socialists such as R.H. Tawney, William Morris, G.D.H. Cole, and T.H. Marshall argued that there are goods and services that should be provided by the government universally, and often equally, to all citizens. They had in mind goods like a national health service, votes, a job guarantee, housing, protection against market vulnerability, public housing, and free public education, although their list can be extended to other goods, including child care, opportunity for political influence, broadband internet access, food stamps, and even free time. My aim in this lecture is to render this “moral economy” tradition more attractive to contemporary egalitarians and to offer a new defense of in kind good provision