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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 […]

July 20, 2022 • Inquiry

“A Bayesian Solution to Hallsson’s Puzzle”

By Thomas Mulligan

Politics is rife with motivated cognition. People do not dispassionately engage with the evidence when they form political beliefs; they interpret it selectively, generating justifications for their desired conclusions and […]

June 24, 2022 • Routledge Books

Markets without Limits: Moral Virtues and Commercial Interests, 2nd Edition

By Jason BrennanPeter Jaworski

May you sell your vote? May you sell your kidney?

May 13, 2022 • Social Choice and Welfare

“Optimizing political influence: a jury theorem with dynamic competence and dependence”

By Thomas Mulligan

The purpose of this paper is to illustrate, formally, an ambiguity in the exercise of political influence. To wit: A voter might exert influence with an eye toward maximizing the […]

May 4, 2022 • SAGE Publishing

Why not anarchism?

By Jason Brennan

Recent debates over ideal theory have reinvigorated interest in the question of anarchy.

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March 28, 2022 • Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy

Why Paternalists Must Endorse Epistocracy

By Jason Brennan

Recent findings from psychology and behavioral economics suggest that we are “predictably irrational” in the pursuit of our interests.

March 24, 2022 • Brill Publishing

Estimating the Size of the Dutch-Speaking Slave Population of New York in the eighteenth Century

By Michael Douma

Historians of American slavery are well-aware that there were slaves in New Netherland before the Dutch colony’s surrender to the English in 1664.

February 9, 2022 • Project MUSE

Dutch-Speaking Runaway Slaves in New York and New Jersey, 1730–1825

By Michael Douma

The history of runaway slaves in America has suffered from both chronological and geographical limitations.

February 9, 2022 • Journal of Confucian Philosophy and Culture

“How East Meets West: Justice and Consequences in Confucian Meritocracy

By Thomas Mulligan

“Meritocracy” has historically been understood in two ways. The first is an an approach to governance. On this understanding, we seek to put meritorious (somehow defined) people into public office […]

January 25, 2022 • American Institute for Economic Research

What the Hell is Inflation Anyway?

By Michael Douma

Arguments about inflation are nothing new.

January 13, 2022 • Wiley Online Library

Why Swing-State Voting Is Not Effective Altruism: The Bad News about the Good News about Voting

By Jason Brennan

Journal of Political Philosophy, EarlyView.

December 10, 2021 • Project MUSE

This Paper Attacks a Strawman but the Strawman Wins: A reply to van Basshuysen and White

By Jason Brennan

We reply to van Basshuysen and White’s criticism of our paper.

November 9, 2021 • Oxford University Press

Debating Democracy: Do We Need More or Less?

By Jason Brennan

Around the world, faith in democracy is falling.

September 24, 2021 • Social Science Research Network

The Ethics of Doing Business with Illegal Immigrants

By Jason Brennan

This paper reviews the ethically relevant consequences of immigration as established by economists’ studies.

September 9, 2021 • Episteme

“The Epistemology of Disagreement: Why Not Bayesianism?”

By Thomas Mulligan

Disagreement is a ubiquitous feature of human life, and philosophers have dutifully attended to it. One important question related to disagreement is epistemological: How does a rational person change her […]

July 20, 2021 • Amazon

Business Ethics for Better Behavior

By Jason BrennanWilliam EnglishJohn HasnasPeter Jaworski

A clear and concise roadmap for ethical business behavior using commonsense moral principles.

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April 28, 2021 • Learn Liberty

War Sucks, What is it Good For?

Featuring Peter Jaworski

War Sucks, What is it Good For?

April 28, 2021 • SAGE Publishing

Must Good Samaritans vote?

By Jason Brennan

The ‘particularity problem’ is one of the most important objections to the putative duty to vote.

January 9, 2021 • Springer

“Equal Pay for All: An Idea Whose Time Has Not, and Will Not, Come”

By Thomas Mulligan

The proposal on offer is a radical form of egalitarianism. Under it, each citizen receives the same income, regardless of profession or indeed whether he or she works or not. […]

December 3, 2020 • Plasma Protein Therapeutics Association

Donor ethics letter submitted to the Expert Panel on Immune Globulin Product Supply and Related Impacts in Canada

By Peter Jaworski

We are professional ethicists in the fields of medical ethics, business ethics, and/or normative ethics, and academic economists who study how incentives and

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November 15, 2020 • Harper's Magazine

What’s in a Vote?

By Jason Brennan

On Tuesday, November 3, Americans will cast their votes for president for the fifty-ninth time in our nation’s history.

September 23, 2020

Why It’s OK to Want to Be Rich

By Jason Brennan

Finger-wagging moralizers say the love of money is the root of all evil.

September 15, 2020 • Philosophy Documentation Center

Democratic Theory After Sixth Grade

By Jason Brennan

Supposedly, on election day, We the People speak.

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September 11, 2020 • Brill Publishing

Book Review: New Light on the Old Colony: Plymouth, the Dutch Context of Toleration, and Patterns of Pilgrim Commemoration

By Michael Douma

Although many of the chapters in this volume have been published previously as journal articles and as introductions to primary source collections, their compil