Published work
(Forthcoming) International Law as a Basis for a Feasible Ability-to-pay Principle. in Climate Justice and Feasibility. Corey Katz & Sarah Kenehan, (eds.) Routledge.
(2020) Shopping with a Conscience? The Epistemic Case for Relinquishment Over Conscientious Consumption. Business Ethics Quarterly. Published online ahead of print (1-33) [open access]
Working papers
- A paper arguing that the pandemic poses unique challenges to existing justifications for and against regulating price-gouging. [title omitted for blinding]. (Status: Revise & Resubmit.)
- The theoretical value of a carbon tax (Status: Conference Paper.)
- A paper arguing that the concept of exploitation cannot simultaneously provided diagnosis and action guidance of the wrongs in sweatshop labor. [Title omitted for blinding.] (Status: Under Review.)
- Dealing with disagreement about climate justice: Assessing the third-party assessments of countries’ climate mitigation pledges
- So you’ve bought a blood diamond: post-purchase consumer ethics
- Consumption harm theory: a critique
- Boycotting the Boycott? Are there moral constraints on conscientious consumption?
- Zhi and Implicit Knowledge in the Mengzi
Public Philosophy
- Consumer Responsibility and Obscurity. (2017) Ethics and International Affairs.
- Engaged Buddhism, Anger, and Retribution. (2017) Ethics and International Affairs.
Dissertation
Bad Goods: On the Political Morality of Production and Consumption in Global Supply Chains
People buy many products produced in ways that would be illegal or immoral if they occurred in developed countries. Call these “dirty” products. For example, one might buy products that have been produced by firms that clear-cut forests, intimidate labour organizers, or violate domestic health and safety or child labour laws in developing countries. On the other hand, many of the global poor rely on the employment opportunities that global production networks create, and developing countries see their low production costs as their comparative advantage to attract foreign investment and upgrade to higher stages of development. In this dissertation, I ask two related questions about dirty products. First, what kinds of flaws in global production networks are morally unacceptable from a global perspective? Second, to whom does the responsibility to remedy such flaws fall?
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