Matt Zwolinski

University of San Diego

Assistant Professor of Philosophy

5998 Alcala Park

San Diego, CA 92110-2492

United States

http://www.sandiego.edu/~mzwolinski

University of San Diego School of Law

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5998 Alcala Park

San Diego, CA 92110-2492

United States

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1.

Sweatshops, Choice, and Exploitation

Business Ethics Quarterly, Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 689-727, October 2007
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 31 May 2006 Last Revised: 25 Jul 2010
Matt Zwolinski
University of San Diego
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Sweatshops, exploitation, choice, consent, markets, coercion, poverty, economics, philosophy

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The Ethics of Price Gouging

Business Ethics Quarterly, Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 347-378, July 2008
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 03 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 25 Jul 2010
Matt Zwolinski
University of San Diego
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Business Ethics, Price Gouging, Exploitation, Coercion, Efficiency, Hayek

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The Ethical and Economic Case Against Sweatshop Labor: A Critical Assessment

Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 107, No. 4 (2012), pp. 449-472
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 22 Oct 2011 Last Revised: 06 May 2012
Benjamin Powell and Matt Zwolinski
Texas Tech University - Free Market Institute and University of San Diego
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sweatshops, competition, exploitation, coercion

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Social Darwinism and Social Justice: Herbert Spencer on Our Duties to the Poor

Camilla Boisen and Matthew Murray, eds., Distributive Justice Debates in Social and Political Thought: Perspectives on Finding A Fair Share (Routledge, 2015)
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 27 Apr 2015 Last Revised: 07 May 2015
Matt Zwolinski
University of San Diego
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Classical Liberalism and the Basic Income

Basic Income Studies, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 09 Sep 2010
Matt Zwolinski
University of San Diego
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libertarianism, classical liberalism, exploitation, basic income

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The Separateness of Persons and Liberal Theory

Journal of Value Inquiry, Vol. 42, No. 2, pp. 147-165, June 2008
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 26 Feb 2008 Last Revised: 25 Jul 2010
Matt Zwolinski
University of San Diego
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Separateness of Persons, John Rawls, Robert Nozick, Liberalism, Libertarianism, Egalitarianism, Respect, Utilitarianism, Contractarianism

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Libertarianism and Pollution

Benjamin Hale and Andrew Light, eds., The Routledge Companion to Environmental Ethics, 2015
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 30 May 2014
Matt Zwolinski
University of San Diego
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Environmentalism, Pollution, Libertarianism, Nozick, Rothbard, Environmental Ethics, Externalities

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Structural Exploitation

Social Philosophy and Policy, Vol. 29, No. 1, Winter 2012
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 04 Mar 2011 Last Revised: 15 Dec 2011
Matt Zwolinski
University of San Diego
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Exploitation, Sweatshops, Social Responsibility

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Libertarianism and the Welfare State

Jason Brennan, Bas van der Vossen, and David Schmidtz, eds., The Routledge Handbook of Libertarianism (Routledge, 2016), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 09 Mar 2016
Matt Zwolinski
University of San Diego
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Property Rights, Coercion, and the Welfare State: The Libertarian Case for a Basic Income for All

The Independent Review, vol. 19, no. 4 (Spring 2015), pp. 515-529.
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 24 Mar 2015
Matt Zwolinski
University of San Diego
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Basic Income, Welfare State, Libertarianism, Property Rights, Coercion, Liberty, John Locke, Henry George, Lockean Proviso

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Price Gouging and Market Failure

New Essays on Philosophy, Politics & Economic: Integration and Common Research Projects, Gerald Gaus, Julian Lamont and Christi Favor, eds., Stanford University Press, May 2010
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 21 Nov 2009 Last Revised: 08 Jun 2013
Matt Zwolinski
University of San Diego
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price gouging, market failure, exploitation, price system, markets

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A Hayekian Case for Free Markets and a Basic Income

The Future of Work, Technology, and Basic Income, edited by Michael Cholbi and Michael Weber (Routledge, 2019)
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 14 Jun 2019
Matt Zwolinski
University of San Diego
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Basic Income, Friedrich Hayek, Libertarianism, Coercion, Liberty, Republicanism

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Libertarianism

The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 10 Dec 2007 Last Revised: 05 Jul 2008
Matt Zwolinski
University of San Diego
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libertarianism, Nozick, consequentialism, natural rights, political philosophy, distributive justice, political authority

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The Libertarian Nonaggression Principle

Social Philosophy and Policy, vol. 32, no. 2 (2016), pp. 62-90
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 02 May 2016
Matt Zwolinski
University of San Diego
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Libertarianism, Aggression, Force, Coercion, Self-Ownership, Murray Rothbard

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A Libertarian Case for the Moral Limits of Markets

Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 04 Jan 2015
Matt Zwolinski
University of San Diego
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Libertarianism, markets, unions, privatization, regulation, distributive justice, freedom, ideal theory

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Price Gouging, Non-Worseness, and Distributive Justice

Business Ethics Quarterly, Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 295-306, April 2009
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 05 Feb 2009
Matt Zwolinski
University of San Diego
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price gouging, exploitation, distributive justice

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Why Not Regulate Private Discrimination?

San Diego Law Review, Vol. 43, p. 1043, Fall 2006
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 11 Apr 2007
Matt Zwolinski
University of San Diego
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discrimination, race, racism, employment, freedom of association, morality, autonomy

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Virtue Ethics and Repugnant Conclusions

ENVIRONMENTAL VIRTUE ETHICS, Philip Cafaro and Ronald Sandler, eds., Rowman and Littlefield, 2004
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 06 Jan 2008
Matt Zwolinski and David Schmidtz
University of San Diego and Independent
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Environmental Ethics, Environmentalism, Thomas Hill, Derek Parfit, Utilitarianism, Deontology, Repugnant Conclusion, Virtue Ethics, Virtue Theory

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A Critique of Ayn Rand's Theory of Rights

Forthcoming in Ayn Rand Society Philosophical Studies, volume 4
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 16 Jan 2016
Matt Zwolinski
University of San Diego
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Ayn Rand, rights, libertarianism, natural rights, Objectivism

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Liberty

CENTRAL ISSUES IN PHILOSOPHY, John Shand, ed., Blackwell, 2009
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 20 Feb 2009 Last Revised: 23 Feb 2009
Matt Zwolinski
University of San Diego
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liberty, libertarianism, political philosophy, Berlin, Constant, Mill, MacCallum

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Exploitation and Consent

Peter Schaber and Andreas Müller, eds., The Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Consent (Routledge, 2018)
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 04 Dec 2018
Matt Zwolinski
University of San Diego
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exploitation, consent

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Review of: The Right to Exploit by Gijs Van Donselaar

Ethics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 26 Jul 2010
Matt Zwolinski
University of San Diego
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Exploitation, Property Rights, Gauthier

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Beyond the Difference Principle: Rawlsian Justice, Business Ethics, and the Morality of the Market

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 27 Jan 2018
Matt Zwolinski
University of San Diego
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John Rawls, Liberalism, Property Rights, Property Owning Democracy, Libertarianism, Markets, Difference Principle, Pluralism, Business Ethics

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The States of Nature

The Journal of Value Inquiry, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 11 Jul 2010 Last Revised: 22 Jul 2010
Matt Zwolinski
University of San Diego
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Hobbes, Locke, State of Nature, Political Legitimacy, Natural Rights

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Exploitation and Freedom

The Oxford Handbook of Freedom, David Schmidtz and Carmen Pavel, eds. (2015)
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 16 Aug 2016
Matt Zwolinski
University of San Diego
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Exploitation, Classical Liberalism, Marxism

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The Advantages of Markets

Christopher Melenovsky, ed., The Routledge Companion to Philosophy, Politics, and Economics
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 05 Oct 2021
Matt Zwolinski
University of San Diego
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Virtue, Repugnance, and Deontology

Reason, Value, and Respect: Kantian Themes from the Philosophy of Thomas E. Hill, Jr. (Oxford University Press, 2015)
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 14 May 2015
Matt Zwolinski and David Schmidtz
University of San Diego and Independent
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Equal Pay: A Floor Not a Ceiling

Anders Ortenblad, ed., Debating Equal Pay (Palgrave, 2020)
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 12 Feb 2021
Matt Zwolinski
University of San Diego
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egalitarianism, equality, inequality, markets, Hayek, Carens, Basic Income