Implicit bias has recently gained much attention in scholarly attempts to understand and explain different forms of social injustice by identifying causally relevant mental states in individual’ minds. Here we question the explanatory power of implicit bias in a particular type of injustice, testimonial injustice, and more generally in what we call speech injustice. Testimonial injustice occurs...

1954. To be sure, Ball saw the appeal of the Korea, Munich, and dominochain analogies, but in each, he also saw serious weaknesses; more important, he felt he saw deeper similarities to the situation the French had faced, which led him to his gloomy but accurate predictions of what would happen to American troops if they went in. I found this discussion enlightening, but it left me wondering, W...

In 1985, approximately 1.0 million black Americans had known diabetes–a rate of 35.9 per 1,000 population. Com­ pared with 22 years ago, these 1985 estimates represent a sub stantial increase in both the number and the rate of black Americans with known diabetes. In 1963, only an estimated 228,000 black individuals had known diabetes, representing a rate of 11.7 known diabetics per 1,000 popula...

To the degree that citizens have participated in, or derived benefits from, social institutions that have helped cause serious, life-threatening, or rights-threatening environmental injustice (EIJ), this article argues that they have duties either to stop their participation in these institutions or to compensate for it by helping to reform them. (EIJ occurs whenever children, poor people, mino...

Abstract We study a multi-unit auction model in which bidders are privately informed about the maximum number of units they willing to trade (which we refer as ‘capacity’). No matter how big or small, private information on capacities changes nature equilibrium compared when is costs (or valuations). Also, uniform-price and discriminatory auctions not revenue equivalent, contrast independently ...