Jason Brennan

Jason Brennan (Ph.D., 2007, University of Arizona) is Robert J. and Elizabeth Flanagan Family Chair and Provost's Distinguished Associate Professor of Strategy, Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. He is also (concurrently) Research Professor in the Department of Political Economy and Moral Science and the Freedom Center at the University of Arizona. He specializes in politics, philosophy, and economics.

He is the author of When All Else Fails: Resistance, Violence, and State Injustice (Princeton University Press, 2018); In Defense of Openness: Global Justice as Global Freedom (Oxford University Press, 2018), with Bas van der Vossen; Against Democracy (Princeton University Press, 2016); Markets without Limits, with Peter Jaworski (Routledge Press, 2016); Compulsory Voting: For and Against, with Lisa Hill (Cambridge University Press, 2014); Why Not Capitalism? (Routledge Press, 2014); Libertarianism: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press, 2012); The Ethics of Voting (Princeton University Press, 2011); and, with David Schmidtz, A Brief History of Liberty (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010). He is co-editor, along with David Schmidtz and Bas Van der Vossen, of the Routledge Handbook of Libertarianism (Routledge, 2017).

He is currently writing Cracks in the Ivory Tower: The Bad Business Ethics of Higher Ed, with Phil Magness, under contract with Oxford University Press, expected publication in 2019.

His books have been translated fourteen times, into Mandarin, Spanish, Japanese, Portuguese, Turkish, German, Italian, Greek, Mongolian, and Swedish. Gegen Demokratie (Ullstein, 2017), the German translation of Against Democracy, was #33 on Der Spiegel's bestseller list

Education

• University of New Hampshire - B.A.
• University of Arizona - Ph.D., Philosophy

Expertise/Clinical Areas

• Immigration
• Professional Ethics
• Business And Public Policy
• Social sciences
• Political Theory
• Ethics
• International Political Economy

Interests

• Business Ethics
• International Political Economy
• Immigration
• education and Justice
• Social sciences
• Congressional policymaking and elections

Publications

Books (11)

Jason Brennan, Phillip Magness. Cracks in the Ivory Tower: The Bad Business Ethics of Higher Ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.

Bas van der Vossen, Jason Brennan. In Defense of Openness: Global Justice as Global Freedom. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.

Jason Brennan. When All Else Fails: Resistance, Violence, and State Injustice. Princeton University Press, 2018.

Jason Brennan. Against Democracy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016.

Jason Brennan, Peter Jaworski. Markets without Limits. London: Routledge, 2016.

Jason Brennan. Political Philosophy: A Primer. Cato Institute, 2016.

Jason Brennan, Lisa Hill. Compulsory Voting: For and Against. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Jason Brennan. Why Not Capitalism?. London: Routledge, 2014.

Jason Brennan. Libertarianism: What Everyone Needs to Know. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.

David Schmidtz, Jason Brennan. A Brief History of Liberty. Oxford: Blackwell, 2011.

Jason Brennan. The Ethics of Voting. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011.

Articles in Journals (39)

Jason Brennan. "Should Employers Pay a Living Wage?." Journal of Business Ethics (2018)

Jason Brennan. "The Demographic Objection to Epistocracy." Res Publica (2018)

Jason Brennan. "Competition in Utopian Capitalism." Moral Philosophy and Politics (2017)

Jason Brennan, Peter Jaworski. "If You May Reply for Money, You May Reply for Free." Journal of Value Inquiry (2017)

Jason Brennan. "Politics Makes Us Dumb and Mean." Emotion Researcher (2017)

Jason Brennan. "Private Governance and the Three Biases of Political Philosophy." Review of Austrian Economics (2017)

Jason Brennan. "Propaganda about Propaganda." Critical Review (2017)

Jason Brennan. "A Libertarian Case for Mandatory Vaccination." Journal of Medical Ethics (2016)

Jason Brennan, Phil Magness. "Are Adjuncts Exploited?: Some Grounds for Skepticism." The Journal of Business Ethics (2016)

Jason Brennan. "Community, Diversity, and Equality in G. A. Cohen’s Socialist Ideal." Analyse & Kritik (2016)

Brennan, J.. "Consequences Matter More: In Defense of Instrumentalism about Public versus Private Prisons." Criminal Law and Philosophy (2016)

Jason Brennan, Phillip Magness. "Estimating the Cost of Adjunct Justice: A Case Study in University Business Ethics." Journal of Business Ethics (2016)

J. Brennan, P. Magness. "Estimating the Cost of Adjunct Justice: A Case Study in University Business Ethics." The Journal of Business Ethics (2016)

Jason Brennan, Peter Jaworski. "I'll Pay You Ten Bucks Not to Murder Me." Business Ethics Review Journal (2016)

Jason Brennan, Peter Jaworski. "In Defense of Commodification." Moral Philosophy and Politics (2016)

Jason Brennan, Peter Jaworski. "Klotzes and Glotzes, Semiotics and Embodying Normative Stances." Business Ethics Journal Review, 4, 2 (2016): 7-14.

Jason Brennan. "Pox Populi." Chronicle Review (2016)

Jason Brennan. "When May We Kill Government Agents: In Defense of Moral Parity." Social Philosophy and Policy (2016)

Jaworski, P., Brennan, J.. "Market Architecture: It's the How, Not the What." Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy, 14 (2015)

Jason Brennan, Peter Jaworski. "Markets without Symbolic Limits." Ethics (2015)

Jason Brennann. "Controversial Ethics as a Foundation for Controversial Political Theory." Studies in Emergent Order (2014)

Jason Brennan. "How Smart Is Democracy? Against A Priori Answers." Critical Review (2014)

Jason Brennan. "The Right to Good Faith: How Crony Capitalism Delegitimizes the Administrative State." Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy (2013)

Jason Brennan. "For-Profit Business as Civic Virtue." The Journal of Business Ethics (2012)

Jason Brennan. "Is Market Society Intrinsically Repugnant?." The Journal of Business Ethics (2012)

Jason Brennan. "Political Liberty: Who Needs It?." Social Philosophy and Policy (2012)

Jason Brennan. "Why Liberal States Must Accommodate Tax Resistors." Public Affairs Quarterly (2012)

Jason Brennan. "Condorcet’s Jury Theorem and the Optimum Number of Voters." Politics (2011)

Jason Brennan. "The Right to a Competent Electorate." Philosophical Quarterly (2011)

Jason Brennan. "Scepticism about Philosophy." Ratio (2010)

Jason Brennan. "Polluting the Polls: When Citizens Should Not Vote." Australasian Journal of Philosophy (2009)

Jason Brennan. "Tuck on the Rationality of Voting." Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy (2009)

Jason Brennan. "Beyond the Bottom Line: The Theoretical Goals of Moral Theorizing." Oxford Journal of Legal Studies (2008)

Jason Brennan. "Choice and Excellence: A Defense of Millian Individualism.”." Social Theory and Practice (2007)

Jason Brennan. "Dominating Nature." Environmental Values (2007)

Jason Brennan. "Free Will in the Block Universe." Philosophia (2007)

Jason Brennan. "Modesty without Illusion." Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (2007)

Jason Brennan. "Rawls's Paradox." Constitutional Political Economy (2007)

Jason Brennan. "Illiberal Liberals: Why High Liberalism is Not a Liberal View." Review Journal of Political Philosophy (2004)

Articles in Books (27)

Jason Brennan. "Foreign Aid and Global Redistribution: A Critique." Ethics: Left and Right, edited by Bob Fischer, Oxford University Press, 2019.

Jason Brennan. "Moral Parity between State and Non-State Actors." Routledge Handbook of Anarchy, edited by Gary Chartier and Chad von Schoelandt, Routledge Press, 2019.

Jason Brennan. "Can Corrupt Soft Money Improve Corrupt Academia?." Free Speech on Campus, edited by Chris Surprenant, Routledge, 2018.

Jason Brennan. "Epistemic Democracy." Routledge Handbook of Applied Epistemology, New York: Routledge Press, 2018.

Jason Brennan. "Voting: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly." The Handbook of Philosophy and Public Policy, edited by David Boonin, Palgrave MacMillan, 2018.

Jason Brennan. "Classical Liberalism: Back to the Future." The Future of Classical Liberalism,, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Jason Brennan, Bas van der Vossen. "The Myths of the Self-Ownership Thesis." Routledge Handbook of Libertarianism, Routledge Press, 2017.

Jason Brennan. "Why Caning Beats Incarceration." Policing and Punishment: Philosophical Problems and Policy Solutions, New York: Routledge, 2017.

Brennan, J.. "Elinor Ostrom's Governing the Commons: Lessons for Political Theorists." Oxford Handbook of Classics in Contemporary Political Theory, New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.

Brennan, J.. "Murderers at the Ballot Box: On the Permissibility of Lying to Bad Voters." Political Ethics, New York: Routledge, 2016.

Jason Brennan. "The Free Market." Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics, Oxford University Press., 2016.

Jason Brennan. "Voting." Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stanford University, 2016.

Jason Brennan. "Democracy and Freedom." Oxford Handbook of Freedom, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.

Jason Brennan. "Do Markets Corrupt?." Economics and the Virtues, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.

Jason Brennan. "Libertarianism." Oxford Bibliographies in Political Science, Oxford University Press, 2015.

Jason Brennan. "Political Liberty: Who Needs It?." Debating Political Philosophy, London: Routledge, 2014.

Jason Brennan. "Epistocracy within Public Reason." Democracy in the Twenty First Century, Berlin: Springer, 2013.

Jason Brennan. "Against Mandatory Voting." Debating Reform: Conflicting Perspectives on How to Fix the American Political System, 2nd Edition, New York: Sage, 2012.

Jason Brennan, John Tomasi. "Classical Liberalism." The Oxford Handbook of Political Philosophy, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.

Jason Brennan. "Responsible Voting." Civic Education and the Future of American Citizenship, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2012.

Jason Brennan. "Liberty." The Encyclopedia of Political Theory, Sage Publishing, 2010.

Jason Brennan. "Liberty and Freedom." Political and Civic Leadership, Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2010.

Jason Brennan. "Liberty and Freedom." Political and Civic Leadership, Sage Publishing, 2010.

Jason Brennan. "Liberty.”." The Encyclopedia of Political Theory, Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2010.

Jason Brennan. "What if Kant Had Had a Cognitive Theory of the Emotions?”." Recht und Freiden in der Philosophie Kants, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2008.

Jason Brennan. "Marijuana." Social Issues in America, Armonk, NY: ME Sharpe, 2006.

Jason Brennan. "Marijuana." Social issues in America, ME Sharpe, 2006.