Political, Legal and Moral Philosopher, University of California, Davis
Mark R Reiff is the author of the books In the Name of Liberty: The Argument for Universal Unionization (Cambridge University Press, 2020); On Unemployment, Volume I and II (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), Exploitation and Economic Justice in the Liberal Capitalist State (Oxford University Press, 2013), and Punishment, Compensation, and Law: A Theory of Enforceability (Cambridge University Press, 2005). He is currently working on his fifth book, called The Unbearable Resilience of Illiberalism. He has taught political, legal, and moral philosophy at the University of Manchester, the University of Durham, the University of California at Davis, Sonoma State University, and the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management. In 2008-09 he was a Faculty Fellow at the Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University.
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Political philosophy
How important is white fear?
It’s become a commonplace that demographic anxiety is driving white voters to the far Right. This is dangerously wrong
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Universal unions
Being an employee is a threat to your liberty. But while firms exist, compulsory unions are a basic safeguard of freedom
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Economics
Setting a maximum wage for CEOs would be good for everyone
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Economics
Even if you build it, the poor can’t come: against supply-side
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