Continuing on Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (2017) and “What Is the Point of Equality?” (1999). Should the amount of respect that a worker gets be proportional to his or her market value? Our guest tells us more about how all citizens have the right to have their interests considered and what this means for how the relationship between employers and Continue Reading …
Episode 199: Guest Elizabeth Anderson on Private Government (Part One)
The U. of Michigan prof joins us to discuss Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk about It) (2017) and “What Is the Point of Equality?” (1999). What is government? Liz points to the historical use of the term to refer to not just the state, but any organized power relations, including the relation between a firm and its employees. What is it Continue Reading …
Ep. 199: Guest Elizabeth Anderson on Private Government (Citizen Edition)
The U. of Michigan prof joins us to discuss Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk about It) (2017) and “What Is the Point of Equality?” (1999). This is really an episode and a half: a full discussion with Liz, then additional talk about the texts (mostly the 1999 article) among your four hosts Mark, Wes, Seth, and Dylan. What is government? Continue Reading …
Parables as a Guide to Jesus the Philosopher, Part 14: Fairness
The Workers in the Vineyard is one of Jesus’s longest parables, and probably involves more moral concepts than any other: For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. After agreeing with the laborers for the usual daily wage, he sent them into his vineyard. When he went out about nine o’clock, he saw others Continue Reading …