Dear colleagues,
This is a reminder of our next Ethics in Business Seminar next week, March 7, at 5:30 PM.
Joseph Heath from the University of Toronto will present his paper "Hussain on the market: Critique or Kvetch?" (see Abstract and Bio below).
Join us in person (Rose Hill campus, Hughes Hall 208) if you are around or by Zoom if you are not. Please kindly RSVP here We look forward to seeing you there!
Miguel
Abstract: In order to qualify as such, a critique of capitalism should take issue with features that are specific to that economic system, which is to say, features that would not be present after some feasible reorganization of the economy. Otherwise, the critique is not really a critique of capitalism but rather of the human condition. I refer to this as a kvetch. Waheed Hussain's book, Living with the Invisible Hand, is intended as a critique of the market economy. I analyze Hussain's argument in order to determine whether it counts as a critique or a kvetch.
Bio: Joseph Heath is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He is the author of several books, both popular and academic, including Economics Without Illusions (HarperBusiness, 2009), Morality, Competition, and the Firm (Oxford, 2014), and most recently, Ethics for Capitalists (Friesen, 2023)
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Miguel Alzola Ph. D.
Associate Professor of Ethics