Curriculum Ethics, Justice & Economic Life
Ethics, Justice & Economic Life
Fairness, obligation, and the moral questions markets can't answer on their own.
- What Is Economic Justice? An introduction to the main ways philosophers and economists think about fairness in economic life. 📄 Read-aloud
- John Rawls and the Veil of Ignorance A thought experiment for designing fair economic rules without knowing your own place in society. 📄 Read-aloud
- Equality of Opportunity vs Equality of Outcome Comparing two competing ideals for fairness: equal starting chances versus equal final results. 📄 Read-aloud
- The Ethics of Taxation Why taxation raises ethical questions about ownership, fairness, and the proper role of government. 📄 Read-aloud
- Sweatshops and Global Labor Ethics Examining the ethical debate over low-wage factory work in developing economies and global supply chains. 📄 Read-aloud
- Is Price Gouging Wrong? The Economics of Emergencies Weighing the moral objections to emergency price spikes against the economic case for letting prices rise. 📄 Read-aloud
- The Ethics of Inheritance and Wealth Transfer Examining whether passing wealth to the next generation is a fair extension of ownership or an obstacle to equal opportunity. 📄 Read-aloud
- Fair Trade vs Free Trade Comparing the free trade case for open markets with the fair trade case for guaranteed minimum standards. 📄 Read-aloud
- The Moral Limits of Markets Exploring whether some goods should never be bought and sold, even when a willing buyer and seller exist. 📄 Read-aloud
- Intergenerational Justice: Debt, Climate, and the Future How to weigh obligations to future generations who cannot vote, borrow, or advocate for themselves today. 📄 Read-aloud
- Universal Basic Income: An Ethical Case Weighing the ethical arguments for and against giving everyone a regular, unconditional cash payment. 📄 Read-aloud
- The Ethics of Automation and Job Loss Examining what employers and society owe workers whose jobs are displaced by machines and software. 📄 Read-aloud
- Corporate Social Responsibility: Real or PR? Examining whether corporate social responsibility genuinely changes company behavior or mainly serves marketing. 📄 Read-aloud
- Poverty, Charity, and the Duty to Help Examining how much individuals and societies owe to people in poverty, and through what means. 📄 Read-aloud
- Whistleblowing and Ethics in Finance Examining the ethical duties and risks facing employees who expose wrongdoing inside financial institutions. 📄 Read-aloud
- The Ethics of Algorithmic Decision-Making What's ethically different about a computer program deciding your loan or job application versus a human doing it. 📄 Read-aloud
- Reparations: The Economic and Ethical Debate The economic reasoning behind reparations proposals for historical injustice, and the practical questions that make them contested. 📄 Read-aloud
- The Ethics of Advertising to Children Why marketing directed at children raises distinct ethical concerns that don't apply to advertising aimed at adults. 📄 Read-aloud
- The Ethics of Price Discrimination When charging different customers different prices is fair and when it is exploitative, from student discounts to personalised online pricing. 📄 Read-aloud
- Child Labour: Economics and Ethics Why child labour persists, the economic and moral arguments around it, and which policies have reduced it most effectively. 📄 Read-aloud
- The Ethics of Tax Avoidance The difference between legal tax avoidance and illegal evasion, and the debate over whether aggressive avoidance is morally wrong. 📄 Read-aloud
- Living Wage vs Minimum Wage What a living wage is, how it differs from the legal minimum wage, and the ethical and economic debate over paying enough to live decently. 📄 Read-aloud