Papers

MS#4. Markets are good at some things and bad at others, 2017

Financial Times, 23 August 2017: Letters

Subjects: markets, coordination, knowledge

Abstract: Critical reply to Martin Sandbu. Crises are an inherent consequence of the market's structural disincentives to agents' sharing information about their economic plans.

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MS#1. Nature's Legacy: On Rohwer and Marris and Genomic Conservation, 2015

Ethics, Policy & Environment, 18:3, December 2015: pp.265-267

Subjects: genetic integrity, biodiversity

Abstract: Critical reply to Rohwer & Marris [2015 Ethics, Policy & Environment 18:3]. Sets out logical errors in all of Rohwer & Marris's attacks on arguments for prima facie duties to preserve genetic integrity. Describes one coherent and plausible way to hold that genetic integrity is intrinsically good.

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