What Makes Exploitation Wrongful?

Wrongful Beneficence: Exploitation and Third World Sweatshops

Much of the merchandise produced by U.S. companies and sold to U.S. consumers is manufactured by workers in third world countries who earn as little as 12 cents per hour drudging away in harsh and even dangerous work environments. Such workplaces are referred to as sweatshops and are especially common in the apparel and shoe industries and in toy making. Many critics object to sweatshops on the...

Polymeric Gas Separation Membranes: What Makes them Industrially more Attractive?

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What Makes a Revolution

Although property rights are the cornerstone of capitalist economies, throughout history existing claims have been frequently overturned and redefined by revolution. A fundamental question for economists is what makes revolutions more likely to occur. A large literature has found contradictory evidence for the effect of income and income inequality on revolt, possibly due to omitted variable bi...

What makes people click?

Mysterious culture: Some online social networks evolve a distinct culture and iconography, like ancient Egypt, only more rapidly. (Photo: Guillaume Lelarge/Wikimedia Commons.) A mysterious new culture has been born. “We are like ancient Egyptians. We communicate with pictures, we worship cats, and nobody understands us.” This paraphrases a post that was reblogged many thousands of times on the ...