Selected Articles
“What Is the Wrong of Capitalism?” American Political Science Review, 2025.
“Privatization, Structural Dependence, and the Problem of Legitimacy,” Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, 2024.
“Freeing People, Restricting Capital,” British Journal of Political Science, 2023 (Winner of the Brian Barry Prize).
“The Ethics of Global Capital Mobility,” American Political Science Review, 2022 (co-authored with Jonathan Levy and winner of the Elizabeth D. Rockwell Prize).
“Prospective Duties and the Demands of Beneficence,” Ethics, 2018.
“Democratizing Organized Religion,” Journal of Politics, 2017.
“Neutrality of What?” Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 2017.
“Justice Below the State: Civil Society as a Site of Justice,” British Journal of Political Science, 2016.
“Justice as Fairness and Relational Resources,” Journal of Political Philosophy, 2015 (included in the Philosopher’s Annual)
“Distributive Justice and the Problem of Friendship,” Political Studies, 2015.
“The Institutional Division of Labor and the Egalitarian Obligations of Nonprofits,” Journal of Political Philosophy, 2012.
“Philanthropy and Intergenerational Justice” (with Rob Reich), in Axel Gosseries and Iñigo González-Ricoy (eds.), Institutions for Future Generations, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.
“Reparative Justice and the Moral Limits of Discretionary Philanthropy,” in Reich, Cordelli, and Bernholz (eds.), Philanthropy in Democratic Societies, the University of Chicago Press, 2016 (Winner of the Midwest Political Science Association's Review of Politics Award).
Book in Progress
Ruled by None: A Political Theory of Capitalism (Under contract with Princeton University Press).
Ruled by None develops a novel normative critique of capitalism and an original account of the point and scope of economic democracy. Moving beyond dominant critiques of capitalism, including analytical Marxism and radical republicanism, and drawing from economic thinkers such as Keynes and Veblen, the book (i) shifts the focus from capitalism’s labor relations and processes of material production, which have been the dominant focus of the current literature, to capitalism’s mode of monetary valuation and investment as its core site of analysis and critique; (ii) it defends a specific account of social alienation, rather than exploitation or domination, as the distinctive ill of capitalism, and argues that capitalism amounts to a “rule of none” - an impersonal and illegitimate form of governance by investment markets; (iii) it argues that the point of socialism should include an ongoing process of disalienation or reconciliation, rather than simply the overcoming of labor domination and exploitation. Finally, (iv) the book presents a normative case for the democratization and planning of investment, beyond workers’ control over the labor process. It shows the limits of alternative institutional solutions, including not only Rawls’s welfare-state capitalism and property-owning democracy, but also Roemer’s market socialism, and Daniela Gabor’s more recent “Big Green State.” The book also aims to make a methodological contribution, by advocating for a strong form of interdependence between normative political philosophy and critical theory.
Public lecture on the wrong of capitalism and the scope of economic democracy (Harvard, 2025).