The Centre for Advanced Studies ‘Justitia Amplificata’ at the Goethe University of Frankfurt organised a wonderful workshop on Jerry’s thought between the 8th and 9th of April 2011.
The full programme can be found here. My own contribution, on Jerry’s account of exploitation, will be posted on this site shortly.
On the 24th and 25th of March 2011 I organised a small workshop at the Chaire Hoover, with the support of the funding council of the French-speaking community of Belgium (FNRS).
The workshop’s website is here. The papers presented were:
Metrics and Intergenerational Justice
Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen (Aarhus)
Moral Value with Infinitely Many Locations of Value
Peter Vallentyne (Missouri)
Space vs. Time in Moral Philosophy
Daniel Attas (Jerusalem)
Poverty and Variable Populations
Nicole Hassoun (Carnegie Mellon)
Lockeans and Luck Egalitarians on Procreative Rights and Duties
Richard Arneson (San Diego)
Discounting while treating generations equally
Geir Asheim (Oslo)
Happiness and Future Generations
Bruno Frey (Zurich)
Erasmus School of Philosophy / Bayle building
Erasmus University Rotterdam
P.O. Box 1738
3000 DR Rotterdam
The Netherlands
vrousalis [at] esphil.eur.nl
Oxford & Stanford undegraduates, 2007-2009
UC Louvain/KU Leuven graduates, 2009-2011
KU Leuven/FUSL undergraduates, 2011-2012
Introduction to Political Philosophy
Cambridge undergraduates, 2012-2013
Lectures:
Metaethics (Part IA): Lectures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Kant’s Ethics and Kantian Ethics (Part II): Lectures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Liberalism, Communitarianism, Multiculturalism (Part II): Lectures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Rawls and Nozick (Part IB): Lectures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Leiden graduates, 2013-2014
Marx’s Capital: Lectures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Rotterdam undergraduates, 2019-2020
Amsterdam PPE, 2019-2020
History of Philosophy II: Lectures 1, 2, 3, 4
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023)
The Political Philosophy of G.A. Cohen
(London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015)
Waheed Hussain, Living with the Invisible Hand
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023)
‘Exploitation and the social economy’ (with Ben Ferguson)
Review of Social Economy 77 (2019): 91-93
(final)
‘Who Needs Gilabertian Dignity?‘
Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy.
‘Replies to Barn, Love, and Stanczyk on Exploitation as Domination‘
Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics 16 (2023): 31-38.
(final)
‘Interdependent Independence: Civil Self-Sufficiency and Productive Community in Kant’s Theory of Citizenship’
Kantian Review 27 (2022): 443-460
(final)
‘Socialism Unrevised: A Reply to John Roemer on Marx, Exploitation, Solidarity, Worker Control’
Philosophy & Public Affairs 49 (2021)
(final)
‘Free Productive Agency: Reasons, Recognition, Socialism’
Philosophical Topics 47 (2020)
(draft)
‘Public Ownership, Worker Control, and the Labour Epistocracy Problem’
Review of Social Economy 78 (2020)
(final)
‘Structural Domination and Collective Agency in the Market’
Journal of Applied Philosophy 37 (2020)
(final)
‘How Exploiters Dominate’
Review of Social Economy 77 (2019): 1-28
(draft) (final)
‘Workplace Democracy implies Economic Democracy’
Journal of Social Philosophy 50 (2019): 259-279
(draft) (final)
‘Erfurt plus Councils: The Distinctive Relevance of the German Revolution of 1918-19’
Socialist History 55 (2019): 27-46
(draft) (final)
‘Revolutionary Principles and Strategy in the November Revolution: The Case of the USPD’
The German Revolution and Political Theory. Kets, G. and J. Muldoon (eds.). Palgrave Macmillan (2019): 113-34
(draft) (final)
‘Capital without Wage-Labour: Marx’s Modes of Subsumption Revisited’
Economics & Philosophy 34 (2018): 411-438
(draft) (final)
‘Council Democracy and the Socialization Dilemma’
Council Democracy: Towards a Democratic Socialist Politics. Muldoon, J. (ed.). Routledge (2018): 89-107
(draft) (final)
‘Exploitation: A Primer’
Philosophy Compass 13 (2018)
(draft) (final)
‘Exploitation as Domination: A response to Arneson’
Southern Journal of Philosophy 54 (2016): 527-38
(draft) (final)
‘Analytical Marxism’
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. Thompson, W.R. (ed.), Oxford University Press (2016)
(final)
‘Imperialism, Globalization, and Resistance’
Global Justice: Theory, Practice, Rhetoric 9 (2016): 69-92
(draft) (final)
‘Integenerational Justice: A Primer’
Institutions for Future Generations, Gosseries, A. & I. Gonzalez (eds.), Oxford University Press (2016): 49-64
(draft) (final)
‘Analytical Marxism’ (with Philippe Van Parijs)
International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioural Sciences, James Wright (ed.), 2nd ed., vol. I (2015): 665-7
‘Gosseries on Intergenerational Savings’
Diacritica 16 (2014): 301-6
(draft) (final)
‘G. A. Cohen on Exploitation’
Politics, Philosophy and Economics 13 (2014): 151-164
(final)
‘Exploitation, Vulnerability, and Social Domination’
Philosophy and Public Affairs 41 (2013): 131-157
(draft) (final)
‘Smuggled into Existence’
Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 16 (2013): 598-604
(draft) (final)
‘Jazz Bands, Camping Trips, and Decommodification: G. A. Cohen on Community’
Socialist Studies 8 (2012): 141-163
(draft) (final)
‘Lamentation in the Face of Historical Necessity’
Arguing about Justice: Essays for Phillippe Van Parijs, A. Gosseries & Y. Vanderborght (eds. 2011): 367-376
(draft) (final)
‘Libertarian Socialism’
Social Theory and Practice 37 (2011): 211-226
(draft) (final)
‘Responsibilities to Posterity’
Theoretical and Applied Ethics 1 (2011): 48-50
‘G. A. Cohen on Socialism’
Journal of Ethics 14 (2010): 185-216
(draft) (final)
‘Against the Will Theory of Rights’
Res Publica 16 (2010): 415-423
(draft) (final)
‘Technofeudalism is just capitalism‘
Catalyst 9 (2025): 103-110
‘Public Ownership and the Socialisation of Production in the German Revolution of 1918-19’
Renewal: A Journal of Social Democracy 26 (2019)
(draft) (final)
‘Sypnowich on What’s Wrong with Equal Opportunity’ Boston Review 26 (2023): 43-47.
‘Review of Pascoe, Kant’s Theory of Labour ’ Journal of the History of Philosophy 62 (2024).
‘Review of Kain, Marx, Revolution, and Social Democracy’ Contemporary Political Theory 22 (2023).
‘Review of Screpanti, Labour and Value‘
Erasmus Journal for Philosophy & Economics 13 (2020)
(final)
‘Review of Sensat, The Logic of Estrangement‘
Economics & Philosophy 34 (2018): 282-289
(draft) (final)
‘Revolution, State, Workers’ Control: Besancenot, Miéville, and Medhurst on October’
Capital & Class 42 (2018): 353-59
(draft) (final)
‘Review of Thomas, Republic of Equals‘
Philosophical Review 128 (2018): 125-30
(draft) (final)
‘Freedom and Republicanism in Roberts’ Marx’s Inferno‘
Capital & Class 41 (2017): 378-83
(draft) (final)
‘Piketty’s Grandchildren’
Capital & Class 39 (2015): 155-60
(draft) (final)
‘Le Marxisme analytique’, ‘L’exploitation de l’homme par l’homme’
Dictionnaire des sciences humaines. Savidan, P. (ed.). Presses Universitaires de France (2018, forthcoming)
‘L’exploitation de l’homme par l’homme’
Dictionnaire de Théorie Politique (DiCoPo) (2011)
(final)
O Ψύλλος για τη Μεταφυσική της Μεθόδου στον Μαρξ
Κρίση 12 (2022)
Τι είναι ο αναλυτικός μαρξισμός;
Κρίση 3 (2018): 33-52
Introduction & translation of G. A. Cohen’s Why not Socialism? (Γιατί όχι Σοσιαλισμός;)
Εκδόσεις Εκκρεμές (2010)
Marx and Justice
Cogito 7 (2007)
What is Left-Libertarianism?
Cogito 5 (2006)
Translation of G. A. Cohen’s ‘Where the Action Is’ (‘Εκεί που βρίσκεται η πράξη: Περί του πεδίου της διανεμητικής δικαιοσύνης’)
Ισοπολιτεία VIII (2004)
I was born in 1980 in Athens, Greece. I read economics at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where I also did some graduate work. I subsequently migrated to political philosophy, eventually completing a doctorate at Oxford, where I was supervised by G.A. Cohen.
I am currently associate professor in practical philosophy at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Before that, I taught at Leiden, UC Louvain, KU Leuven, and Cambridge, where I was also Director of Studies in Philosophy at Jesus College and Trinity Hall.
I have held fellowships at Princeton University’s Center for Human Values (2015-16), at the Aarhus Institute for Advanced Study (2018-19), and at Harvard University’s Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics (2023-24).
I am an associate editor of Politics, Philosophy & Economics, of the Review of Social Economy, and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Social Philosophy. Since 2019 I have also been PI for the Inequality against Freedom project.
Greece in the Balkans: Memory, Conflict, and Exchange, co-edited with Othon Anastassakis and Dimitar Bechev, Cambridge Scholars Press (2009).
(A collection of essays from a 2006 Oxford conference, bringing together young scholars from the Balkans and the rest of Europe.)
La situation économique
L’économie grecque est aujourd’hui au centre des contradictions du capitalisme européen et est également son maillon le plus faible. La crise en Grèce a été déclenchée par l’accumulation massive de la dette et l’incapacité de la bourgeoisie grecque de la contrôler. Néanmoins, les causes réelles doivent être recherchées ailleurs. En 2001, la Grèce a rejoint l’Union économique et monétaire (UEM), en cédant le contrôle de sa politique monétaire à la Banque centrale européenne. Le consensus informel était que la Grèce, l’Irlande, le Portugal et d’autres pays de la périphérie de la zone euro auraient accès, à travers la nouvelle monnaie, l’euro, à des prêts moins chers. D’autre part, ils pourraient absorber encore plus de produits du centre européen (voitures allemandes, avions de combat français, etc .). Le résultat à court terme a été que les taux de croissance économique de presque tous les pays ont augmenté. Alors que les pays du centre ont eu accès sans problèmes à des marchés plus vastes et ont fait des bénéfices, les pays de la périphérie européenne ont basés leurs économies sur l’argent emprunté, sans imposer de lourdes taxes à leurs bourgeoisies et à leurs entreprises. En même temps, la baisse des revenus du travail dans le PIB, pendant les années 2000 dans presque toute l’Europe, a nécessité une nouvelle augmentation des emprunts pour maintenir les niveaux de la consommation. Cela a conduit à la crise de la sur-accumulation du capital qui frappe l’Europe aujourd’hui. Par conséquent, pendant les années 2008-9 les pays de la périphérie européenne ont été contraints, par les pays du centre, à fournir des garanties pour la solvabilité de leurs banques, tandis que leurs déficits grimpaient à des niveaux insoutenables.