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We Must Always Pursue Economic Growth

Utilitas 34 (4):478-492 (2022)

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  1. Between Markets, Politics, and Ethics: On Vendor Conscience and Impersonal Markets.Matthew Caulfield - 2023 - Journal of Business Ethics 188 (2):307-326.
    Business owners sometimes refuse to transact with certain customers on principle, given some normative (political, personal, moral, or religious) commitment which they hold. I call such refusals ‘conscientious refusals.’ Evaluating two possible positions on the permissibility of vendor conscientious refusals, I argue in favor of an impersonal market in which vendor conscientious refusals are generally not justified. I argue impersonal norms, which crowd out conscientious considerations, support pluralist, healthy markets from which we reap individual and communal benefits; further, impersonal markets (...)
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  • In Defense of (Limited) Oligarchy.Brian Kogelmann - 2023 - Public Affairs Quarterly 37 (4):352-370.
    In democracies around the world, the rich exercise a disproportionate share of political power. Democratic theorists universally condemn this. The current paper brings balance to this conversation by mustering a defense of limited oligarchy. I have two goals. First, I shall argue that we need not be overly despondent about the wealthy's outsized influence, for overrepresentation of the wealthy performs some good for us—good which might not be entirely obvious at first glance. Second, I hope to temper reform efforts that (...)
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  • Must We Always Pursue Economic Growth?Jeffrey Carroll - 2024 - Utilitas 36 (1):102-110.
    Must we always pursue economic growth? Kogelmann answers yes. Not only should poor countries pursue growth, but rich countries should as well. Kogelmann aims to provide awealth-insensitive argument– one demonstrating all countries should pursue growth regardless of their wealth. His central argument – the no halting growth (NHG) argument – says no country experiencing growth should stop it, because doing so requires undermining the conditions causing it and those conditions are independently morally desirable, so they should not be undermined. For (...)
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