ABOUT


Matt Zwolinski is a political philosopher at the University of San Diego who teaches and writes about issues at the intersection of philosophy, politics, economics and law. He is director of USD’s Center for Ethics, Economics, and Public Policy, co-director of USD’s Institute for Law and Philosophy, and a Senior Fellow at the Niskanen Center.

Matt writes and speaks regularly on topics such as price gouging, sweatshop labor, libertarian political theory, and universal basic income. His recent books include The Individualists: Radical, Reactionaries, and the Struggle for the Soul of Libertarianism (Princeton 2023, with John Tomasi), Universal Basic Income: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford 2023, with Miranda Perry Fleischer) and Exploitation: Perspectives from Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (2024, edited with Ben Ferguson).

You can find more from Matt on his Substack or on X.