Public cartels, private conscience
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7354245 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Cholbi (0000-0002-5185-2428, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 356-377 |
| Publication date | 2018-05-30 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Politics Philosophy & Economics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1470-594X • E-ISSN: 1741-3060 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1470594x18779146 |
| OpenAlex | W2806116494 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 36 |
Many contributors to debates about professional conscience assume a basic, pre-professional right of conscientious refusal and proceed to address how to ‘balance’ this right against other goods. Here I argue that opponents of a right of conscientious refusal concede too much in assuming such a right, overlooking that the professions in which conscientious refusal is invoked nearly always operate as public cartels, enjoying various economic benefits, including protection from competition, made possible by governments exercising powers of coercion, regulation, and taxation. To acknowledge a right of conscientious refusal is to license professionals to disrespect the profession’s clients, in opposition to liberal ideals of neutrality, and to engage in moral paternalism toward them; to permit them to violate duties of reciprocity they incur by virtue of being members of public cartels; and to compel those clients to provide material support for conceptions of the good they themselves reject. However, so long as (a) a public cartel discharges its obligations to distribute the socially important goods they have are uniquely authorized to provide without undue burden to its clientele, and (b) conscientious refusal has the assent of other members of a profession, individual professionals’ claims of conscience can be accommodated
Business · Coercion (linguistics · Conscience · Conscientious objector · Economics · Law and economics · Neutrality · Paternalism · Political science · Public good · Public relations · Reciprocity (cultural anthropology · Sociology · Law · Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems · Legal and Constitutional Studies · Legal principles and applications · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |