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Prostitution, State Violence, and Economic Opportunities: A Response to McMullen EthicsGeneral EconomicsPoverty and InequalityUncategorized

Prostitution, State Violence, and Economic Opportunities: A Response to McMullen

This is a guest post by Scott Cunningham, an Economist at Baylor University, in response to my post about the legalization of prostitution, available here. The context for this conversation is a podcast episode from last year, in which I interviewed Scott about his empirical…
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May 3, 2021
Capitalism, Opportunity, the Welfare State, and Virtue EthicsGeneral EconomicsPoverty and InequalityTheology

Capitalism, Opportunity, the Welfare State, and Virtue

Does capitalism undermine virtue and community? Or does it reinforce virtuous behavior? Does capitalism require a virtuous population, or does it succeed because it assumes the worst about people? I have been thinking about these questions throughout my career, and occasionally written about them (here,…
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October 26, 2020
Rules of Engagement Ethics

Rules of Engagement

I have been concerned for some time that our dominant mode of political engagement and political conversation are deeply destructive. If you are reading this, you probably agree. However, de-escalating our political rhetoric is difficult to do. I want to reflect just briefly about why…
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September 26, 2020