What is the nature of the experience of risk? Risk can impose distinctive burdens on individuals: making us anxious, impairing our relationships, and limiting our ability to plan our lives. On the other hand, risky situations are sometimes exciting, liberating, and even empowering. The article explores the idea that risk can result in benefits for the individuals who bear it. Specifically, we e...

Gentrification is a global and highly controversial issue. This article develops an account of what can be troubling, specifically, about state support for gentrification processes. Recent research points to the fact that processes are being used by policy-makers in many parts world as tools urban ‘renewal’ or transformation. However, it claimed this often at cost badly off residents these area...

Abstract How important is the experience of risk in business endeavors for self-respect and moral development? Tomasi prompts this question with his attempt to reconcile Rawls’s theory justice as fairness free-market capitalism, by claiming that economic activity a way people exercise their autonomy, responsibility, self-authorship, including through voluntary risk-taking. Critics argue social ...