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Efficiency, Equity, and Price Gouging: A Response to Zwolinski

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In this response, I reiterate my argument that price gouging undercuts the goal of equity in access to essential goods whereas Zwolinski emphasizes the importance of the efficient provision of essential goods above all other goals. I agree that the efficient provision of essential goods is important as I argue for the goal of equitable access to sufficient of the goods essential to living a minimally flourishing human life. However, efficiency is a means to this goal rather than the end itself. Finally, I offer additional arguments against the non-worseness claim.

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  • Snyder, Jeremy, 2009. "Efficiency, Equity, and Price Gouging: A Response to Zwolinski," Business Ethics Quarterly, Cambridge University Press, vol. 19(2), pages 303-306, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:buetqu:v:19:y:2009:i:02:p:303-306_00
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    1. Jerod Coker & Jean-Manuel Izaret, 2021. "Progressive Pricing: The Ethical Case for Price Personalization," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 173(2), pages 387-398, October.
    2. Juan Elegido, 2015. "The Just Price as the Price Obtainable in an Open Market," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 130(3), pages 557-572, September.
    3. Ilan Noy & Shakked Noy, 2016. "The Ethical Content of the Economic Analysis of Disasters: Price Gouging and Post-Disaster Recovery," CESifo Working Paper Series 6253, CESifo.
    4. Tae Wan Kim, 2018. "Gamification of Labor and the Charge of Exploitation," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 152(1), pages 27-39, September.

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