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Prakash Sethi on Apple's Labor Standards
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S. Prakash Sethi,
Christian Barry,
Matt Peterson
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04/11/12
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Does Apple's number one status mean that it has special responsibilities for the labor practices of its Chinese manufacturers? And to what extent is one company, even one as dominant as Apple, capable of affecting labor standards in China's vast economy, not to mention the rest of Asia?
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Seth Lazar,
Christian Barry,
Matt Peterson
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03/16/12
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Does all killing in war come down to self-defense? This view makes a lot of intuitive sense, but it turns out to pose a serious challenge to the traditional view of just war theory. What about civilians, for example? Philosopher Seth Lazar explores this complex issue.
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Samantha Brennan,
Christian Barry,
Matt Peterson
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02/14/12
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Why is it that a woman can lead a country, yet women are slower to be served in coffee shops? In the West, women and men share equal status under the law. But in countless practical ways, women experience inequality on a daily basis.
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Samantha Brennan,
Christian Barry,
Matt Peterson
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02/14/12
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Why is it that a woman can lead a country, yet women are slower to be served in coffee shops? In the West, women and men share equal status under the law. But in countless practical ways, women experience inequality on a daily basis.
Transcripts
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Joy Gordon,
Christian Barry,
Matt Peterson
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08/13/10
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Joy Gordon's new book "Invisible War" describes a superpower run amok. The international sanctions on Iraq were the strictest ever imposed. The tremendous damage that ensued set the stage for the devastated country we see today.
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Matthew Rimmer,
Christian Barry,
Matt Peterson
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06/23/10
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Matthew Rimmer discusses intellectual-property policy
for clean technologies. How do we both create new technologies and spread them as widely as possible? We need climate-friendly technology to be used everywhere, including in developing countries with limited resources.
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Sarah Holcombe,
Christian Barry,
Matt Peterson
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06/01/10
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What rules should govern business and academic interactions with so-called traditional knowledge? Sarah Holcombe examines questions of knowledge management, intellectual property rights, and research ethics through the lens of Australia's Aboriginal groups.
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Anne Phillips,
Christian Barry,
Matt Peterson
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05/17/10
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Is the human body a piece of property? We object to the sale of whole human beings, but what about cases where a person merely wants to sell a part of her body? If I am free to donate my organs, why am I not free to sell them as well?
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Christopher Heath Wellman,
Christian Barry,
Matt Peterson
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11/03/09
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From education and health care, to access to credit and the rule of law, a host of factors that influence quality of life depend simply on which side of a border a person is born on. Yet what could be more arbitrary, morally speaking, than where a person happens to be born?
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Hilary Charlesworth,
Christian Barry,
Matt Peterson
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10/07/09
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What does a country gain by enacting a bill of rights? Do countries that lack bills of rights, like Australia, protect human rights as well as those, like the United States and Canada, that have them?
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Michael Selgelid,
Christian Barry,
Matt Peterson
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08/22/09
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Can we infringe individual rights to promote public health? Should, say, people be allowed to decide for themselves when they are too infectious to get on a plane?
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David Singh Grewal,
Christian Barry,
Matt Peterson
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04/03/09
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To explain how power can be at work in apparently voluntary processes, Grewal introduces the concept of "network power." He argues that this dynamic drives many key aspects of globalization.
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Jeff McMahan,
Christian Barry,
Matt Peterson
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01/28/09
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Israeli officials insist that their attacks on Gaza were judiciously planned so as to minimize harm to civilians. What role do civilian casualties play in assessing the justice of war?
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Robert E. Goodin,
Lina Eriksson,
Christian Barry,
Matt Peterson
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01/09/09
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What does it mean to live well? Robert Goodin and Lina Eriksson discover that income figures don’t tell the whole story. Missing from this picture is the degree of control an individual has over how her time is spent.
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Larry S. Temkin,
Christian Barry,
Matt Peterson
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12/03/08
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What would a world in which everyone lived beyond 100 be like? Would it really be worth it for us?
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Larry May,
Christian Barry,
Matt Peterson
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10/28/08
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Are habeas corpus petitions, as Barack Obama put it, "the foundation of Anglo-American law"? Or are they just nuisance lawsuits, as John McCain claims?
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Leif Wenar,
Christian Barry,
Matt Peterson
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10/07/08
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There is a powerful case that corporations and countries that buy natural resources from bad actors in developing countries are violating the property rights of the people of those countries.
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Jessica Wolfendale,
Christian Barry,
Matt Peterson
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09/18/08
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We now know that the U.S. officially sanctions and regularly employs interrogation tactics that push legal and moral boundaries. In this episode, Jessica Wolfendale sits down with Christian Barry to determine where those boundaries lie.
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Thomas Pogge,
Christian Barry,
Matt Peterson
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09/02/08
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Thomas Pogge explains his proposal for dealing with the thorny intersection of public health, property rights, and poverty. As he sees it, the patent system doesn't work as well for medicines as it does for, say, consumer electronics.
Audio
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Joy Gordon,
Christian Barry,
Matt Peterson
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08/13/10
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Joy Gordon's new book "Invisible War" describes a superpower run amok. The international sanctions on Iraq were the strictest ever imposed. The tremendous damage that ensued set the stage for the devastated country we see today.
|
Matthew Rimmer,
Christian Barry,
Matt Peterson
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06/23/10
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Matthew Rimmer discusses intellectual-property policy
for clean technologies. How do we both create new technologies and spread them as widely as possible? We need climate-friendly technology to be used everywhere, including in developing countries with limited resources.
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Anne Phillips,
Christian Barry,
Matt Peterson
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05/17/10
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Is the human body a piece of property? We object to the sale of whole human beings, but what about cases where a person merely wants to sell a part of her body? If I am free to donate my organs, why am I not free to sell them as well?
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Christopher Heath Wellman,
Christian Barry,
Matt Peterson
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11/03/09
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From education and health care, to access to credit and the rule of law, a host of factors that influence quality of life depend simply on which side of a border a person is born on. Yet what could be more arbitrary, morally speaking, than where a person happens to be born?
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Hilary Charlesworth,
Christian Barry,
Matt Peterson
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10/07/09
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What does a country gain by enacting a bill of rights? Do countries that lack bills of rights, like Australia, protect human rights as well as those, like the United States and Canada, that have them?
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Michael Selgelid,
Christian Barry,
Matt Peterson
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08/21/09
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Can we infringe individual rights to promote public health? Should, say, individuals be allowed to determine for themselves when they are too infectious to get on a plane?
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David Singh Grewal,
Christian Barry,
Matt Peterson
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04/03/09
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To explain how power can be at work in apparently voluntary processes, Grewal introduces the concept of "network power." He argues that this dynamic drives many key aspects of globalization.
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Jeff McMahan,
Christian Barry,
Matt Peterson
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01/28/09
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Israeli officials insist that their attacks on Gaza were judiciously planned so as to minimize harm to civilians. What role do civilian casualties play in assessing the justice of war?
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Robert E. Goodin,
Lina Eriksson,
Christian Barry,
Matt Peterson
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01/09/09
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What does it mean to live well? Robert Goodin and Lina Eriksson discover that income figures don’t tell the whole story. Missing from this picture is the degree of control an individual has over how her time is spent.
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Larry S. Temkin,
Christian Barry,
Matt Peterson
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12/03/08
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What would a world in which everyone lived beyond 100 be like? Would it really be worth it for us? Temkin believes that we need to take a good hard look at all sides of the question of aging, rather than just blindly hoping for the best.
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Larry May,
Christian Barry,
Matt Peterson
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10/28/08
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Are habeas corpus petitions, as Barack Obama put it, "the foundation of Anglo-American law"? Or are they just nuisance lawsuits, as John McCain claims?
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Leif Wenar,
Christian Barry,
Matt Peterson
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10/07/08
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There is a powerful case that corporations and countries that buy natural resources from bad actors in developing countries are violating the property rights of the people of those countries.
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Jessica Wolfendale,
Christian Barry,
Matt Peterson
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09/15/08
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We now know that the U.S. officially sanctions and regularly employs interrogation tactics that push legal and moral boundaries. In this episode, Jessica Wolfendale sits down with Christian Barry to determine where those boundaries lie.
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Thomas Pogge,
Christian Barry,
Matt Peterson
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08/27/08
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Thomas Pogge explains his proposal for dealing with the thorny intersection of public health, property rights, and poverty. As he sees it, the patent system doesn't work as well for medicines as it does for, say, consumer electronics.
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