In episode 2 of The Curious Task host Alex Aragona speaks with Peter Jaworski about limits to markets. They discuss common objections to markets and ways to design markets to address the ethical concerns many people have to “markets without limits”.

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Peter Jaworski is an Assistant Teaching Professor teaching business ethics in the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. He was previously 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.

He is a co-founder, and Vice-Chairman of the Board of the Institute for Liberal Studies, an adjunct scholar with the Cato Institute, an Academic Advisory Board member with the Greater Mekong Research Center, and an Advisory Board member with the Freedom and Entrepreneurship Foundation in Poland.

References from this episode:

  • Buy the book Markets Without Limits here
  • Check out the Donation Ethics website here