April 3: Ostrom's Critique of Hardin, and Ostrom's Framework for Analyzing the Sustainability of Systems
April 8: Global Public Goods
April 10: Overfishing
April 15: Stakeholders; The Importance of Modesty in Policymaking; Introduction to Game Design
1. Lynn Scarlett, "Choices, Consequences, and Cooperative Conservation", in Schmidtz and Willott eds. Environmental Ethics, Oxford UP 2. Carol Rose, "Liberty, Property, Environmentalism", Social Philosophy and PolicyOptional: Robert Stavins, "Experience With Market-Based Environmental Policy Instruments"Optional: Dan Shahar, "Free-Market Environmentalism Pace Environmentalism", in Schmidtz and Willott eds. Environmental Ethics, Oxford UP April 17, 22, and 24: Game Design Lab; Using Games to Teach, and to Promote Pro-Social Behavior
April 29: More Empirical and Strategic Considerations, and the Nuclear Taboo as a Global Public Good
PART TWO: ETHICS AND COLLECTIVE ACTION
May 1: One Approach to the Ethics of Collective Action: Consequentialist Theories1. Derek Parfit, "Practical Dilemmas", pp. 53-66 of Reasons and Persons, Oxford UP 2. Shelly Kagan, "Do I Make a Difference?", pp. 105-124, Philosophy and Public Affairs3. Gerald Gaus, "Is Voting Rational?", pp. 184-191 of On Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, Wadsworth 4. Derek Parfit, "Five Mistakes in Moral Mathematics", pp. 67-86 of Reasons and Persons, Oxford UP
Midterm Exam: Due Tuesday, May 6 at 9pm via email (Distributed via email at 4pm on Friday, May 2)
May 6: In-Class Lab and Presentation; No Readings
May 8: Other Approaches to the Ethics of Collective Action: Deontological Theories, Virtue Theories, Symbolic Value
May 15: Influential Perspectives on Climate Change Ethics and Policy1. Peter Singer, "One Atmosphere", in One World, Yale UP 2. Stephen Pacala and Robert Socolow, "Stabilization Wedges: Solving the Climate Problem for the Next 50 Years With Current Technologies", Science3. Elinor Ostrom, "Green from the Grassroots", Project Syndicate4. Elinor Ostrom, "A Polycentric Approach to Coping with Climate Change", The World Bank Optional: The Stabilization Wedges Game and WebsiteOptional: Robert Socolow, "Wedges Reaffirmed", Bulletin of the Atomic ScientistsOptional: Discussion of Cap and Trade, Chapters 14, 15, and 22, of The Stern Review: The Economics of Climate Change, Cambridge UP Optional: EPA Fact Sheet on SO2 Cap and Trade ( more information here) May 20: Playtesting Game Prototypes
May 27: More on Feasibility Constraints, Ethics, and Policy1. John Broome, selections from Climate Matters: Ethics in a Warming World, Norton 2. Eric Posner and Cass Sunstein, "Climate Change Justice", Georgetown Law Journal3. Cass Sunstein, "US Should Act Unilaterally on Climate Change", Bloomberg4. Eric Posner and David Weisbach, selections from Climate Change Justice, Princeton UP Optional: William Nordhaus and Joseph Boyer, "Economic Analysis of the Kyoto Protocol", Chapter 8 of Warming the World, MIT Press
May 29: Should We Divest from Fossil Fuels? Are all Forms of Complicity in Fossil Fuel Emissions Wrong?
Optional: Dan Ariely, "The Cost of Social Norms", in Predictably Irrational, Harper Optional: Lior Jacob Strahilevitz, "How Changes in Property Regimes Influence Social Norms: Commodifying California's Carpool Lanes", Indiana Law Journal Optional: Thomas Schelling, interview in The Atlantic (part 2 of 2)Optional: Desmond Tutu, "Why I support the call on Stanford University to Divest from the Israeli Occupation", Stanford DailyJune 3, Final Presentations In Class, and Playtesting with External ExpertsJune 10, 6:30pm: Final Paper Due via Email Optional Recommended Further Readings |