Matt Zwolinski

Professor of Philosophy, University of San Diego

Director, USD Center for Ethics, Economics, and Public Policy

Co-Director, USD Institute for Law and Philosophy

Senior Fellow, Niskanen Center

San Diego, CA 92110

 mzwolinski@sandiego.edu

619-260-4094

Abbreviated Research Vita – For Full Vita in PDF format, click here

Education

PhD 2003, University of Arizona

Committee: David Schmidtz (Director), Tom Christiano, Allen Buchanan.

BA (philosophy) and BS (political science) 1997, Santa Clara University

Research Interests

My work is in the intersection of politics, philosophy, and economics. More specifically, I write about exploitation, libertarian political theory, and the idea of a Universal Basic Income.

Publications

Books

Exploitation: Perspectives from Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, with Ben Ferguson (Oxford University Press, 2024)

The Individualists: Radicals, Reactionaries, and the Struggle for the Soul of Libertarianism, with John Tomasi (Princeton University Press, 2023)

Universal Basic Income: What Everyone Needs to Know, with Miranda Perry-Fleischer (Oxford University Press, 2023)

The Routledge Companion to Libertarianism, with Ben Ferguson (Routledge, 2022) 

Arguing About Political Philosophy, 2nd edition (Routledge, 2014)

Papers in Progress

• “Exploitation and Unfair Pricing”

• “The Ethics of Exclusionary Zoning”

Published Papers

• “Libertarianism, Oversimplified,” The Independent Review (2024)

• “The Advantages of Markets,” in Christopher Melenovsky, ed., The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (Routledge, 2022)

• Foreword to Michael Huemer and Daniel Layman, Is Political Authority an Illusion? (Routledge, 2021)

• “Equal Pay: A Floor, Not a Ceiling,” in Anders Örtenblad, ed., Debating Equal Pay for All (Palgrave, 2020)

• “A Hayekian Case for Free Markets and a Basic Income,” in Michael Cholbi and Michael Weber, eds., The Future of Work, Technology, and Basic Income (Routledge, 2019)

• A Critique of Ayn Rand’s Theory of Rights,” A Critique of Ayn Rand’s Theory of Rights: Response to Miller and Mossoff,” in Gregory Salmieri and Robert Mayhew, eds., Foundations of a Free Society: Reflections on Ayn Rand’s Political Philosophy (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019).

• “Rights, Reasonableness, and Environmental Harms,” American Journal of Bioethics, vol. 18, no. 2 (2018), pp. 46-48.

• “Exploitation and Consent,” in Peter Schaber and Andreas Müller, eds., The Routledge Handbook on The Ethics of Consent (Routledge, 2018).

• “Beyond the Difference Principle: Rawlsian Justice, Business Ethics, and the Morality of the Market,” in Eugene Heath and Byron Kaldis, eds., Wealth, Commerce, and Philosophy: Foundational Thinkers on Business Ethics (University of Chicago Press, 2017), pp. 381-399.

• “Libertarianism and the Welfare State,” in Jason Brennan, Bas van der Vossen, and David Schmidtz, eds., The Routledge Handbook of Libertarianism (Routledge, forthcoming in 2017).

•  “The Libertarian Non-Aggression Principle,” Social Philosophy and Policy vol., 32, no. 2 (April, 2016), pp. 62-90.

• “Exploitation and Freedom,” in David Schmidtz and Carmen Pavel, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Freedom (Oxford, 2016).

• “Social Darwinism and Social Justice: Herbert Spencer on Our Duties to the Poor,” in Matthew Murray and Camilla Boisen, eds.., Distributive Justice Debates in Social and PoliticalThought: Perspectives on Finding a Fair Share (Routledge, 2015)

• “A Libertarian Case for the Moral Limits of Markets,” Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy, vol. 13, no. 2 (2015), pp. 275-290.

• “Virtue, Repugnance, and Deontology ” with David Schmidtz, in Reason, Value, and Respect: Kantian Themes from the Philosophy of Thomas E. Hill, Jr., Mark Timmons and Robert Johnson, eds., (Oxford University Press, 2015).

• “Property Rights, Coercion, and the Welfare State: The Libertarian Case for a Basic Income for All,” The Independent Review (forthcoming in 2015).

• “Libertarianism and Pollution,” Philosophy and Public Policy Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 4 (2014), pp. 9-21.

  • Also forthcoming in Andrew Light and Benjamin Hale, eds., The Routledge Companion to Environmental Ethics (Routledge, forthcoming in 2015)

• “Liberalism,” in Alex Michalos, ed., Encyclopedia of Quality of Life Research (Springer, 2013).

• “Are Usurious? Another New Argument for the Prohibition of High Interest Loans?” Business Ethics Journal Review, 1(4) (2013): 22-27.

• “Environmental Virtue Ethics: What It Is and What It Needs to Be,” with David Schmidtz, in Daniel
  Russell, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Virtue Ethics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), pp. 221-239.

•  “Exploitation,” with Alan Wertheimer, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (December, 2012).

•  “The Ethical and Economic Case Against Sweatshop Labor: A Critical Assessment,” with Benjamin Powell, Journal of Business Ethics, vol. 107, no. 4 (2012), pp. 449-472.

•  “Structural Exploitation,” Social Philosophy and Policy, vol. 29, no. 1 (Winter, 2012), pp. 154-179.

  • Reprinted in Ellen Frankel Paul, ed., New Essays in Political and Social Philosophy (Cambridge University Press, 2013).

• “Classical Liberalism and the Basic Income,” Basic Income Studies, vol. 6, no. 2 (December, 2011), pp. 1-14.

• “States of Nature,” Journal of Value Inquiry, vol. 45, no. 1, pp. 27-36 (2011).

• “Recent Work in Ethical Theory and its Implications for Business Ethics,” with Denis Arnold and Robert Audi, Business Ethics Quarterly, vol. 20, no. 4 (October, 2010), pp. 559-581.

• “Price Gouging and Market Failure” in Christi Favor, Gerald Gaus, and Julian Lamont, eds., Essays on Philosophy, Politics & Economics: Integration and Common Research Projects (Stanford: Stanford University Press), 2010.

• “Liberty,” in John Shand, ed., Central Issues in Philosophy (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2009), pp. 275-286.

• “Price Gouging, Non-Worseness, and Distributive Justice,” Business Ethics Quarterly, vol. 19, no. 2 (April, 2009), pp. 295-306.

  • Reprinted in Lisa Newton, Elaine Englehardt and Michael Pritchard, eds., Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Business Ethics and Society, 11th edition and 12th edition (New York: McGraw Hill, 2012).

  • Reprinted in Stephen Satris, ed., Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Moral Issues, 13th edition (New York, McGraw Hill, 2011).

  • Reprinted in Jonathan Anomaly, Geoffrey Brennan, Mike Munger, and Geoff Sayre-McCord, Philosophy, Politics & Economics: Essential Readings (Oxford University Press, 2015).

• “The Ethics of Price Gouging,” Business Ethics Quarterly, vol. 18, no. 3 (July, 2008), pp. 347-378.

  • Reprinted in David Schmidtz and John Thrasher eds., Creating Wealth: Ethical and Economic Perspectives, 2nd ed. (Cognella Academic Publishing, 2014).

  • Reprinted in A.M. Viens and Michael Selgelid, Emergency Ethics, Volume I (London: Ashgate, 2012).

• “The Separateness of Persons and Liberal Theory,” The Journal of Value Inquiry, vol. 42, no. 2 (June, 2008), pp. 147-165.

• “Libertarianism,” Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, http://www.iep.utm.edu/libertar/ (March, 2008).

• “Respect for Persons and the Authority of Morality,” Reason Papers no. 29 (Fall 2007), pp. 71-82.

• “Sweatshops, Choice, and Exploitation,” Business Ethics Quarterly, vol. 17, no. 4 (October, 2007), pp. 689-727.

  • Reprinted in Laura Hartman and Joseph DesJardins, eds., Business Ethics: Decision-Making for Personal Integrity & Social Responsibility, 2nd edition (McGraw Hill, 2011), pp. 312-25.

  • Reprinted in Andrew Morriss, ed., Global Labor and Employment Law for the Practicing Lawyer (Kluwer Law International, 2010), pp. 597-647.

  • Reprinted in David Schmidtz and John Thrasher eds., Creating Wealth: Ethical and Economic Perspectives, 2nd ed. (Cognella Academic Publishing, 2014).

  • Reprinted in Harriet Baber and Denise Dimon, eds.,  Globalization and International Development: The Ethical Issues (Broadview, 2013).

  • Reprinted in Jonathan Anomaly, Geoffrey Brennan, Mike Munger, and Geoff Sayre-McCord, Philosophy, Politics & Economics: Essential Readings (Oxford University Press, 2015).

• “Why Not Regulate Private Discrimination?” San Diego Law Review, vol. 43, no. 4 (Fall, 2006), pp. 1043-1061.

• “Person-Neutrality and the Separateness of Persons,” Southwest Philosophical Studies, vol. 25 (2006), pp. 95-104.

• “Sweatshops,” in James Climent, ed., Social Issues in America: An Encyclopedia (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe,
  2006).

  • Reprinted in Thomas Mappes & Jane S. Zembaty, Social Ethics: Morality and Social Policy,
    7th edition (New York: McGraw Hill, 2006), and 8th edition (2011).

• “Natural Law and Evolutionary Conservatism,” San Diego Law Review, vol. 42, no. 3 (2005), pp. 1143-1149.

• “Virtue Ethics and Repugnant Conclusions,” with David Schmidtz, in Philip Cafaro and Ronald Sandler, eds., Environmental Virtue Ethics, (New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2005), pp. 107-117.

Reviews

• Review of Annie Lowrey, Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World (Crown, 2018), Journal of Business Ethics 162(1): 247-249.

• Review of Philippe van Parijs and Yannick Vanderborght, Basic Income: A Radical Proposal for a
  Free Society and a Sane Economy (Harvard, 2017), Ethics & International Affairs 31(4)

• Review of Loren Lomasky, Rights Angles (Oxford University Press, 2016), Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2017.03.10).

• Review of Ralf Bader and John Meadowcroft (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Nozick’s Anarchy, State, and
  Utopia (Cambridge University Press, 2011), Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2012.10.03).

• Review of Gijs Van Donselaar, The Right to Exploit: Parasitism, Scarcity, Basic Income (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), Ethics, vol. 121, no. 1 (October, 2010), pp. 228-232.

• Review of George Brenkert and Tom Beauchamp, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Business Ethics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2010.06.32).

• Review of Amartya Sen, The Idea of Justice (Harvard University Press, 2009), The Review of Metaphysics, vol. LXIII, no. 4 (2010), pp. 45-47.

• Review of Horacio Spector, Autonomy and Rights: The Moral Foundations of Liberalism (Oxford: Oxford
  University Press, 1992), The Journal of Value Inquiry, vol. 43, no.2 (June, 2009), pp. 255-262.

• Review Essay: Dale Jamieson, ed., A Companion to Environmental Philosophy (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2001), Environmental Ethics vol. 25 (Spring 2003), pp. 99-104.