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Joseph Mazor

Joseph Mazor

Placement Candidate

[ Curriculum Vitae ]

Year: Ph.D. June 2009

Thesis Title:   A Liberal Theory of Natural Resource Property Rights

Major Field:  Theory

Advisors:  Dennis Thompson, Nancy Rosenblum, Jerry Green, Nicolaus Tideman, Eric Beerbohm


Biographical Note:
Joseph Mazor (BA, BS University of Pennsylvania) graduated with a PhD in June of 2009 from the interdisciplinary Political Economy and Government Program.  He is currently a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the Center for Human Values at Princeton University. His primary research interests lie in the intersection of normative political theory and economics, with a particular focus on questions of distributive justice. In his dissertation, he examines the normative foundations of natural resource property rights and argues that justice requires a highly egalitarian distribution of natural resource wealth.  Joseph also has a secondary research interest in deliberative democracy. He was a Graduate Fellow at the Harvard Project on Justice, Welfare, and Economics in 2007-2008 and a Graduate Fellow at the Harvard Center for Ethics in 2008-2009.

Papers:

Teaching Portfolio  
The Obligation to Conserve Natural Resources for Future People
 

 

 

Email Address

mazor@fas.harvard.edu

Phone

201-321-4363

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