Supplementary reading
Fall term (2013)
Lecture 2 (September 16th): Introduction to ethical thinking (Sandel, chapter 1)
To orientate yourselves to moral philosophy or ethics, please search for books in York’s libraries with
titles such as:
Introduction to Ethics
Introduction to Moral Philosophy
Thomson, J. (1976).‘Killing, letting die, and the trolley problem’, The Monist 59, pp. 204-17.
Thomson, J. (1985). ‘The trolley problem’, Yale Law Journal 94, pp. 1395-1415.
Lecture 3 (September 23rd): Utilitarianism (Sandel, chapter 2)
Velaquez, M. (2002). ‘Ethical principles in business’, in M. Velasquez, Business Ethics: Concepts and
Cases, 5th edition (New York: Prentice Hall), pp. 70-95.
Sinnott-Armstrong, W. (2006). ‘Utilitarianism’, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, online at
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consequentialism/
Kymlicka, W. (1990). Contemporary Political Philosophy: An Introduction (Oxford: Clarendon), chapter 1.
Lecture 4 (September 30th): Libertarianism (Sandel, chapter 3)
Nozick, R. (1074). Anarchy, State, Utopia (New York: Basic Books), pp. 149-64.
Kymlicka, W. (1990). Contemporary Political Philosophy: An Introduction (Oxford: Clarendon), chapter 4.
Waldron, J. (2003). ‘Property rights and welfare distribution’, in R.G. Frey and C.H. Wellman (eds.) – A
Companion to Applied Ethics (Oxford: Blackwell), pp. 38-49.
Lamont, J. and Favor, C. (2007). ‘Distributive justice’, in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Edward N.
Zalta (ed.), URL = http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/justice-distributive/
Hospers, J. (1974). ‘What Libertarianism is’, in T. Mappes and J. Zembaty (eds.). Social Ethics: Morality
and Social Policy 5th edition (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1997), pp. 349-356. Reprinted in J. Sterba (ed.)
Morality in Practice (Belmont, California: Wadsworth/Thompson, 2001), section I.1.
Lecture 5 (October 7th): Markets and morals (Sandel, chapter 4)
Walzer, M. (1983). Spheres of Justice (New York: Basic Books, 1983), pp. 95-115.
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Elster, J. (1989). ‘Social norms and economic theory’, Journal of Economic Perspectives 3 (4), pp. 99-117.
Andre, J. (1995). ‘Blocked exchanges: a taxonomy’, in D. Miller and M. Walzer (eds.). Pluralism, Justice
and Equality (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
Kuttner, R. (1997). Everything for Sale: The Virtues and Limits of Markets (New York: Knopf).
Anderson, E. (1990). ‘The Ethical Limitations of the Market’, in Economics and Philosophy 6, pp. 179-205.
Suzuki, H. (2005). ‘Is there something money can’t buy?’, in Journal of Critical Realism vol. 4 (2), pp. 26590.
Scheper-Hughes, N. And Wacquant, L. (eds.) (2002). Commodifying Bodies (London: Sage Publications).
Shanley, M. (2002). ‘Collaboration and commodification in assisted procreation’, Law & Society Review
36 (2), pp. 257-84.
Webley, P. and Lea, S. (1993). ‘The partial unacceptability of money in repayment for neighborly help’,
Human Relations 46, pp. 65-76.
Webley, P., Lea, S. and Portalska, R. (1983). ‘The unacceptability of money as a gift’, Journal of Economic
Psychology 4, pp. 223-38.
Lecture 6 (October 21st): Kant (Sandel, chapter 5)
Johnson, R. (2004). ‘Kant’s moral philosophy’, in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, online at
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant-moral/
Kant, I. (2002). Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals (New Haven: Yale University Press).
Bowie, N. (1999). Business Ethics: A Kantian Approach (Oxford: Blackwell).
Lecture 7 (October 28th): Rawls (Sandel, chapter 6)
Pakaluk, M. (2003). ‘The liberalism of John Rawls: a brief exposition’, in C. Wolfe (ed.). Liberalism at the
Crossroads (Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield), pp. 1-8.
Rawls, J. (1971). A Theory of Justice (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press), part one, pp. 3-192.
Rawls, J. (2001). Justice as Fairness: A Restatement (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press).
Lecture 8 (November 4th): Affirmative action (Sandel, chapter 7)
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G. Sher (1975). ‘Justifying reverse discrimination in employment’, Philosophy and Public Affairs 4 (2), pp.
159-70.
Susan Dimock and Christopher Tucker – ‘Affirmative action and employment equity in Canada’, in P.
Tittle (ed.) – Ethical Issues in Business (Broadview Press, 2000), pp. 236-254.
Kahn, S. (ed.) (1993). Affirmative Action and the University (Philadelphia: Temple University Press).
Olen, J. (2002). Applying Ethics: A Text with Readings (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/ Thomson Learning),
chapter 8.
Narveson, J. (1999). Moral Matters (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield), chapter 13.
Sterba, J. (2001). Morality in Practice (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning), section V.
Gold, Steven Jay (1993). Moral Controversies: Race, Class, and Gender in Applied Ethics (Belmont, Calif.:
Wadsworth), chapter 10.
Purtill, R. (1985). Moral Dilemmas: Readings in Ethics and Social Philosophy (Belmont, Calif.:
Wadsworth), chapter 10.
Fullinwider, R. (2005). ‘Affirmative action’, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Edward N. Zalta
(ed.), URL = http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/affirmative-action/
Lecture 9 (November 11th): Aristotle (Sandel, chapter 8)
Aristotle. Nicomachean Ethics (various editions and translations).
Broadie, S. (1991). Ethics with Aristotle (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
Kraut, R. (2010). ‘Aristotle’s ethics’, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL
= http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-ethics/
Peters, J. (2013) (ed.). Aristotelian Ethics in Contemporary Perspective (London: Routledge).
Sison, A. (2008). Corporate Governance and Ethics: An Aristotelian Perspective (Aldershot: Elgar).
Lecture 10 (November 18th): Loyalty (Sandel, chapter 9)
To be announced
Lecture 11 (November 25th): The current financial crisis: How the banking business wrecked society
Dobs, N. (2011). Global Financial Crisis: The Ethical Issues (Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan).
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For this topic, a look at the financial/economic press over the past two years would be useful (e.g. The
Economist, Financial Times).
Also a search in the university library’s catalogue under the title words “financial crisis” gives a number
of publications from 2009 and 2010. There is more than enough here for anyone who wishes to pursue
this topic.
Winter term (2013)
Lecture 1 (January 6th): Globalization and the race to the bottom
Stiglitz, J. (2006). Making Globalization Work (New York: W.W. Norton), chapter 7: ‘The multinational
corporation’, pp, 187-210.
Wettstein, F. (2009). Multinational Corporations and Global Justice: Human Rights Obligations of a
Quasi-Governmental Institution (Stanford: Stanford Business Books), chapters 6 and 7.
P. Hirst and G. Thompson (1999). Globalization in Question: The International Economy and the
Possibilities of Governance, 2nd edition (Cambridge: Polity Press).
J. Gray – ‘How global free markets favour the worst kinds of capitalism’, in J. Gray – False Dawn: The
Delusions of Global Capitalism (London: Granta, 1998), chapter 4, pp. 78-99.
J. Hobson – ‘Disappearing taxes or the ‘race to the middle’?’, in L. Weiss (ed.) – States in the Global
Economy Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp. 37-57. [A more empirical look at the race to the bottom
thesis]
Linda Weiss – ‘Globalization and the myth of the powerless state’, New Left Review I/225, 1997, pp. 427. Online over library homepage. [A challenge to the powerless state thesis]
G. Garrett – ‘Global markets and national politics’, International Organization vol. 52 (4), 1998, pp. 787824. Online over library homepage.
L. Weiss (ed.) – States in the Global Economy Cambridge University Press, 2003), chapter 2 (by D. Swank)
and chapter 3 (by M. Ramesh).
Lecture 2 (January 13th): Global institutions: WTO, IMF, World Bank
For empirical studies and information on the global economy, individual countries and international
institutions, the following resources are invaluable:
http://www.worldbank.org/
http://www.imf.org/
http://www.unctad.org
http://www.wto.org/
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Cavanagh, J. and Mander, J. (eds.) (2004). ‘The unholy trinity: The World Bank, the International
Monteray Fund, and the World Trade Organization’, in Alternatives to Economic Globalization: A Better
World is Possible (San Francisco, CA: Berrett-Koehler), chapter 3, pp. 55-74.
Rodrik, D. (2001). ‘The Global Governance of Trade as if Development Really Mattered’, United Nations
Development Programme. Available online under:
http://www.servicesforall.org/html/Governance/Rodrik-Trade%20&%20Development.pdf
Khor, M. (2001). Rethinking Globalization (London: Zed Books), chapters 2 and 4.
Stiglitz. J. (2003). The Roaring Nineties: A New History of the World's most Prosperous Decade (New
York: W.W. Norton).
Stiglitz. J. (2002). Globalization and its Discontents (New York: W.W. Norton)
Cohn, T. (2000). Global Political Economy (New York: Longman), pp. 23-55.
[Good account of global institutions such as GATT, the World Bank, IMF and WTO, their genesis and
effects]
Nace, T. (2003). Gangs of America: The Rise of Corporate Power and the Disabling of Democracy (San
Francisco: Berrett-Koehler), chapter 16: ‘Global rule: How international trade agreements are creating
new corporate rights’, pp, 187-96
Singer, P. (2004). One World: The Ethics of Globalization, 2nd edition (New Haven: Yale University Press),
chapter 3: ‘One economy’, pp. 51-105.
Stiglitz, J. (2006). Making Globalization Work (New York: W.W. Norton), chapter 4: ‘Patents, profits, and
people’, pp. 103-32.
Sell, S. (2000). ‘Big business and the new trade agreements’, in R. Stubbs et al. (eds.). Political Economy
and the Changing Global Order 2nd edition (Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp. 174-83.
Lecture 3 (January 20st): Free trade and development
Bairoch, P. (1993). Economics and World History: Myths and Paradoxes (Chicago: University of Chicago
Press).
Chang, H.-J. (2004). Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective (London:
Anthem Press).
H.-J. Chang (2008). Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism (New
York: Bloomsbury Press), chapters 1-3.
Chang, H-J. and Grabel, I. (2004-05). ‘Reclaiming development from the Washington Consensus’, in
Journal of Post Keynesian Economics vol. 27 (2), pp. 273-291. Available online via library homepage.
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Lecture 4 (January 27th): Why do countries accept the ‘Washington Consensus’?
Allen, M. (2006). Globalization, Negotiation, and the Failure of Transformation in South Africa:
Revolution at a Bargain? (New York: Palgrave MacMillan).
Bond, P. (2003). Against Global Apartheid: South Africa Meets the World Bank, IMF, and International
Finance (London and New York: Zed Books).
Seekings, J. And Nattrass, N. (2005). Class, Race, and Inequality in South Africa (New Haven: Yale
University Press).
May, J. (ed.) (2000). Poverty and inequality in South Africa: Meeting the Challenge (New York: Zed
Books).
Hirsch, A. (2005). Season of Hope: Economic Reform under Mandela and Mbeki (University of KwaZuluNatal Press).
Gumede, W. (2005). Thabo Mbeki and the Battle for the Soul of the ANC (Cape Town: Zebra Press).
Lecture 5 (February 3rd): Drugs, patents and health
To be announced
Lecture 6 (February 10th): Civil disobedience and globalization protest
Bedau, H. (1961). ‘On Civil Disobedience’, Journal of Philosophy 58, pp. 653-661.
Rawls, J. (1972). A Theory of Justice (Oxford: Oxford University Press), chapter 6: sections 55, 57, 59.
Bedau, H. (1991). Civil Disobedience in Focus (London: Routledge).
Hall, R. (1971). The Morality of Civil Disobedience (New York: Harper & Row).
Starr, A. and Adams, J. (2003). ‘Anti-globalization: the global fight for local autonomy’ in New Political
Science 25 (1), pp. 19-42.
Jackie Smith (2002). ‘Globalizing resistance: The battle of Seattle and the future of social movements’, in
J. Smith and H. Johnston (eds.) – Globalization and Resistance: Transnational Dimensions of Social
Movements (Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers), pp. 207-226.
Starr, A. and J. Adams (2003). ‘Anti-globalization: The Global Fight for Local Autonomy’, in New Political
Science 25 (1), pp. 19-42.
B. Gills (ed.) – Globalization and the Politics of Resistance (London: Macmillan, 2000).
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Mitzman, A. (2003). Prometheus Revisited: The Quest for Global Justice in the Twenty-First Century
(Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press), chapter 5.
Samuels, R. (2005). Compendium on Capitalistocracy and Corporate Globalization (Ottawa: Agora
Cosmopolitan), ‘Featured perspectives’ II and III.
Peter Evans – ‘Fighting marginalization with transnational networks’, Contemporary Sociology 29 (1),
2000, pp. 230-41.
Lecture 7 (February 24th): Economic injustice and our obligations from the past
Pogge, T. (2008). World Poverty and Human Rights: Cosmopolitan Responsibilities and Reforms
(Cambridge: Polity).
Pogge, T. and Moellendorf, D. (eds.) (2008). Global Responsibilities (St. Paul, MN: Paragon House).
Nielsen, K. (2003). Globalization and Justice (New York: Humanity Books), chapters 6-7.
Rawls, J. (1999). The Law of Peoples (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press).
Nagel, T. (2005). ‘The problem of global justice’, Philosophy and Public Affairs 33 (2), pp. 113-147.
Brock, G. (2009). Global Justice: A Cosmopolitan Account (Oxford: Oxford University Press), chapter 5
Lecture 8 (March 3rd): Historical injustice
Posner, E. and Vermeule, A. (2003). ‘Reparations for slavery and other historical injustices’, Columbia
Law Review 103 (3), ISSN: 0010- 1958 pp. 691-98.
Barkan, E. (2000). The Guilt of Nations (New York: W.W. Norton).
Goschler, C. (2008). ‘Disputed victims: the West German discourse on restitution for victims of Nazism’,
in M. Berg and B. Schaefer (eds.). Historical Injustice in International Perspective (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press), pp. 93-110.
Ivison, D. (2006) ‘Historical injustice’, in J. Dryzek, B. Honig and A. Phillips (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of
Political Theory (Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp. 507-25.
Thompson, J. (2002). Taking Responsibility for the Past: Reparation and Historical Injustice (Cambridge:
Polity Press), part I (esp. chapter 3).
Torpey, J. (ed.) (2004). Politics and the Past: On Repairing Historical Injustices (Lanham: Rowman &
Littlefield).
Torpey, J. (2009). Making Whole What has been Smashed: On Reparation Politics (Cambridge, Mass.:
Harvard University Press).
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Lectures 9 & 10 (March 10th & 17th): Immigration I & II
Goodin, R. (1988). ‘What’s so special about our fellow countrymen?’, Ethics 98 (4), pp. 663-686.
Kukathas, C. (2002). ‘Immigration’, in H. LaFollette (ed.). Oxford Handbook of Practical Ethics (Pxford:
Oxford University Press), pp. 567-90.
Miller, D. (2005). ‘Immigration: the case for limits’, in A. Cohen and C. Heath Wellman (eds.).
Contemporary Debates in Applied Ethics (Oxford: Blackwell), pp. 193-206.
Sykes, A. (1990). The Economic Consequences of Immigration (Oxford: Blackwell).
Lecture 11 (March 24th): What we owe to others
Rachels, J. (1983). ‘Killing and starving to death’, in J. Narveson (ed.). Moral Issues (Oxford: Oxford
University Press), pp. 154-158.
Glover, J. (1977). Causing Death and Saving Lives (Middlesex: Penguin), chapters 6-8.
Kuper, A. (2002). ‘More than charity: cosmopolitan alternatives to the “Singer solution”’, Ethics and
International Affairs, 16 (1), pp. 107-20.
Singer, P. (2002) ‘Poverty, facts, and political philosophies’, Ethics and International Affairs,
16 (10), pp. 121-4.
Hardin, G. (1974). ‘Lifeboat ethics: The case against helping the poor’, Psychology Today 8 (4), pp. 38-43,
123-6. Reprinted in J. Narveson (ed.) (1983). Moral Issues (Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp. 167-78.
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