Overview
What are the moral limits of markets in an open society? Are goods like education and health care properly treated as market commodities? Should we create markets in goods like human organs, pollution rights, and reproductive labor? What impact does “commodification” have on vulnerable groups? Is there anything that shouldn’t be for sale?
This colloquium is presented in connection with the Civil Discourse Initiative and 2021-22 COMPAS Program on Markets and the Open Society. The panel discussion will be moderated by undergraduate Civil Discourse Fellows.
This event is free and open to the public.
A livestream via Zoom will also be available; register for the livestream here. Note, however, that the livestream audience will not have the ability to ask questions or participate in discussion during the event.
Please contact CEHV Associate Director Kate McFarland (mcfarland.309@osu.edu) if you require any accommodations to participate in this event.
Panelists
Peter Jaworski (Ethics, Georgetown University)
Peter Martin Jaworski is an Associate Teaching Professor teaching Ethical Values of Business to undergraduates and Ethical Leadership to MBAs and Executive MBAs. He was a Visiting Research Professor at Brown University, a Visiting Assistant Professor at the College of Wooster, and an Instructor at Bowling Green State University.
Peter's academic work has been published in Ethics, Philosophical Studies, The Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, The Journal of Business Ethics, The Journal of Value Inquiry, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, amongst others. Along with Jason Brennan, Peter is the author of Markets without Limits: Moral Virtues and Commercial Interests, published in 2016.
Debra Satz (Philosophy, Stanford University)
Debra Satz is the Vernon R. and Lysbeth Warren Anderson Dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences, Marta Sutton Weeks Professor of Ethics in Society, and Professor by courtesy of Political Science at Stanford University. Her research encompasses ethics, political philosophy, feminist philosophy, and philosophy of social sciences.
Dean Satz is the author of Why Some Things Should Not Be for Sale: The Moral Limits of Markets (Oxford, 2010). She is the coeditor of Toward a Humanist Justice: The Political Philosophy of Susan Moller Okin (Oxford, 2009), Occupy the Future (MIT, 2013), and Ideas That Matter: Democracy, Justice, Rights (Oxford, 2019).
Moderators
Corinne Miller
Corinne Miller is a second-year major in Public Policy Analysis in the Honors Program, minoring in Statistics.
She is a member of the Law and Society Scholars. Additionally, she serves as an editor for the Journal of Political and International Affairs, where she reviews undergraduate research, and works with visiting exchange students as a member of Ohio State's Exchange Partner Program.
Adarsh Subramanian
Adarsh Subramanian is a senior majoring in Finance and Economics at Ohio State.
He is a member of Integrated Business and Engineering Honors Program and Buckeye Capital Investors. After graduating from Ohio State, Adarsh plans to work in technology investment banking in San Francisco.
