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November 4, 2024 • McDonough School of Business

Business as a Force for Good: MBA Students Support Hurricane Helene Victims Through Ethics Project

Marshall Montgomery (MBA’25) has always been driven by a sense of purpose. That mindset is what led him to serve in the U.S. Army for seven years and later attracted […]

November 2, 2024

Legal Philosophy and Constitutional Theory Junior Scholar Conference

The Georgetown Institute for the Study of Markets and Ethics is co-sponsoring this event with the Georgetown Center for the Constitution. We are excited to announce that we are now […]

August 28, 2024

Faculty Workshop – Rebecca Lowe (King’s College London)

August 28, 2024

Faculty Workshop – Samuel Director (University of Richmond)

Samuel Director, Assistant Professor at the University of Richmond, will present his work-in-progress titled “Nudging, It’s Not the What, It’s the Who” (This event has been POSTPONED until Spring 2025)

August 28, 2024

Faculty Workshop – Keith Hankins (Chapman University)

Dr. Keith Hankins will present a paper titled “Four Dimensions of Realism in Normative Political Theory” Abstract: It has become common for political theorists to distinguish between two broad approaches […]

August 28, 2024

Faculty Workshop – Grant Rozeboom (St. Mary’s)

Grant Rozeboom will present his paper titled “Equality as an Aim of Markets.” This paper is part of a book project laying out a systematic view of the ideal of […]

August 28, 2024

Faculty Workshop – Sahar Akhtar (Georgetown) “Cruel Work”

Hariri Building Rm 310

August 28, 2024 • Oxford University Press

Common Law Liberalism: A New Theory of the Libertarian Society (Oxford University Press, 2024)

By John Hasnas

The common law can provide all rules necessary to sustain a peaceful, prosperous, liberal society.

August 28, 2024

Common Law Liberalism (Oxford University Press, 2024)

By John Hasnas

In conventional political philosophy, law is understood as consciously created rules that are a necessary mechanism for regulating the excesses of the free market. Although coercive in nature, law is […]

August 20, 2024

Free the Economy Podcast: Paying for Organs

August 19, 2024 • Springer

“Diversity and Group Performance,” Encyclopedia of Diversity, Springer, 2024

By Jason Brennan

August 19, 2024 • Routledge Books

“Evading and Aiding: The Moral Case Against Paying Taxes,” with Christopher Freiman and Jessica Flanigan, Extreme Philosophy, ed. Stephen Hetherington, Routledge (2024)

By Jason BrennanChristopher Freiman

August 18, 2024

Common Law Liberalism (Oxford University Press, 2024)

By John Hasnas

August 18, 2024 • Reason Magazine

“Online Sports Betting Giants Place Their Bets Against Growing Rivals”

By Jason Brennan

Online sports betting companies are using the same legal playbook that once threatened their operations to eliminate competitors.

August 18, 2024 • Journal of Democracy

“Liberal Tolerance for an Illiberal, Intolerant Age”

By Jason Brennan

August 18, 2024 • Social Philosophy and Policy

“‘Get a Job and Pay More Taxes!’: What Utopophiles Must Say to the Western Poor”

By Jason Brennan

August 18, 2024 • Philosophy

“Friendship and Blackballing for Bad Beliefs”

By Jason Brennan

August 18, 2024 • Politics, Philosophy, and Economics

“Why Not Anarchism?”

By Jason BrennanChristopher Freiman

August 18, 2024 • Journal of Business Ethics

“Diversity for Justice vs. Diversity for Performance: Philosophical and Empirical Tensions,” Journal of Business Ethics 187: 433-447

By Jason Brennan

August 18, 2024 • Journal des Libertés

“Les Contradictions Internes de la Democratie”

By Jason Brennan

August 18, 2024

Symposium on The Ethics of the Rule of Law

The symposium will be held on Friday, November 22 in the McDonough School of Business’s Hariri Building (room 350) on the campus of Georgetown University. This event will be held […]

August 18, 2024 • Oxford University Press

Immigration and Discrimination (Oxford University Press, 2024)

By Sahar Akhtar

Are states are morally permitted to use for their admission decisions and policies, and why?

August 18, 2024

The Slow Death of Slavery in Dutch New York (Cambridge University Press, 2024)

Original and deeply researched, this book provides a new interpretation of Dutch American slavery which challenges many of the traditional assumptions about slavery in New York. With an emphasis on […]

August 18, 2024

The Slow Death of Slavery in Dutch New York (Cambridge University Press, 2024)

August 18, 2024

Immigration and Discrimination (Oxford University Press, 2024)

Prompted both by past policies and recent developments concerning immigration around the world that center on race, ethnicity, religion, and other identities, Immigration and Discrimination explores what bases states are […]

March 11, 2024 • CBC

Advocacy group concerned pay-for-plasma clinics expanding to Ontario will hurt voluntary donations

A selection from the article: Peter Jaworski, a Canadian scholar, is associate professor at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. and an adjunct professor at Virginia School of Law. He said paid clinics could help Canada become […]

March 4, 2024 • Springer

“Equal Opportunity, Not Reparations” in the Handbook of Equality of Opportunity (2024)

By Thomas Mulligan

The thesis of this essay is that equal opportunity (EO) “strictly dominates” (in the game-theoretic sense) reparations. That is, (1) all the ways reparations would make our world more just […]

March 4, 2024 • Youtube

Business as a Force for Good: MBA Students Support Hurricane Helene Victims Through Ethics Project

Legal Philosophy and Constitutional Theory Junior Scholar Conference

Faculty Workshop – Rebecca Lowe (King’s College London)

Faculty Workshop – Samuel Director (University of Richmond)

Faculty Workshop – Keith Hankins (Chapman University)

Faculty Workshop – Grant Rozeboom (St. Mary’s)

Faculty Workshop – Sahar Akhtar (Georgetown) “Cruel Work”

Common Law Liberalism: A New Theory of the Libertarian Society (Oxford University Press, 2024)

Common Law Liberalism (Oxford University Press, 2024)

Free the Economy Podcast: Paying for Organs

“Diversity and Group Performance,” Encyclopedia of Diversity, Springer, 2024

“Evading and Aiding: The Moral Case Against Paying Taxes,” with Christopher Freiman and Jessica Flanigan, Extreme Philosophy, ed. Stephen Hetherington, Routledge (2024)

Common Law Liberalism (Oxford University Press, 2024)

“Online Sports Betting Giants Place Their Bets Against Growing Rivals”

“Liberal Tolerance for an Illiberal, Intolerant Age”

“‘Get a Job and Pay More Taxes!’: What Utopophiles Must Say to the Western Poor”

“Friendship and Blackballing for Bad Beliefs”

“Why Not Anarchism?”

“Diversity for Justice vs. Diversity for Performance: Philosophical and Empirical Tensions,” Journal of Business Ethics 187: 433-447

“Les Contradictions Internes de la Democratie”

Symposium on The Ethics of the Rule of Law

Immigration and Discrimination (Oxford University Press, 2024)

The Slow Death of Slavery in Dutch New York (Cambridge University Press, 2024)

The Slow Death of Slavery in Dutch New York (Cambridge University Press, 2024)

Immigration and Discrimination (Oxford University Press, 2024)

Advocacy group concerned pay-for-plasma clinics expanding to Ontario will hurt voluntary donations

“Equal Opportunity, Not Reparations” in the Handbook of Equality of Opportunity (2024)

Jason Brennan and Hélène Landemore, Debating Democracy (University of Zurich’s UBS Center, 2024)

Jason Brennan “Everything Wrong with Democracy” on the Alex O’Connor Podcast (January 28, 2024)

Faculty Workshop – Paul Forrester