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Joseph Heath

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Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

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Joseph Heath (born 1967) is a professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto. He also teaches at the School of Public Policy and Governance. He received his bachelor of arts from McGill University, where his teachers included Charles Taylor, and his master of arts and doctor of philosophy degrees are from Northwestern University, where he studied under Thomas A. McCarthy and Jürgen Habermas. He has published both academic and popular writings, including the bestselling The Rebel Sell. His philosophical work includes papers and books in political philosophy, business ethics, rational choice theory, action theory, and critical theory.

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I thought I should mention to any long-time readers that I am going to be letting this domain name lapse at the end of the month. I notice that certain posts still get linked to and referenced on a fairly regular basis, so I thought I should provide some warning to those who are doing so, that those links are about to stop working. If you like an article, you should download a copy!

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Average rating: 3.92 · 3,019 ratings · 346 reviews · 29 distinct works • Similar authors

	Nation of Rebels: Why Counterculture Became Consumer Culture by Joseph Heath, Andrew Potter 3.84 avg rating — 1,956 ratings — published 2004 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Filthy Lucre: Economics for People Who Hate Capitalism 4.05 avg rating — 576 ratings — published 2009 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Enlightenment 2.0: Restoring sanity to our politics, our economy, and our lives 4.09 avg rating — 293 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Efficient Society: Why Canada Is as Close to Utopia as It Gets 4.06 avg rating — 98 ratings — published 2002 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Machinery of Government: Public Administration and the Liberal State 4.46 avg rating — 24 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Following the Rules: Practical Reasoning and Deontic Constraint 4.47 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2008 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Morality, Competition, and the Firm: The Market Failures Approach to Business Ethics 4.29 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2014 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Les lumières de la raison. Cultiver l'art d'être rationnel dans un monde qui l'est de moins en moins by Joseph Heath, Nicolas Bertrand (Translator) 3.17 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cooperation and Social Justice 4.63 avg rating — 8 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ethics for Capitalists: A Systematic Approach to Business Ethics, Competition, and Market Failure really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“One of the downsides of working in philosophy is that it attracts a lot of people with mental-health problems.”
― Joseph Heath

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“Veblen argues that the existing social hierarchy is actively maintained by competitive consumption among all classes of society. Thus, consumerism, far from being something that is inflicted upon the working classes by the scheming bourgeoisi, is something that the working classes actively participate in maintaining - even though it is not in their collective interest to do so. If the working classes had wanted to buy out the capitalists, they could easily have done so by now, simply by saving a fraction of the wage increases that they have received over the years. But instead they have chosen to max out their spending on consumer goods.”
― Joseph Heath

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“it is unfair to characterize the work of postmodernists as “bad writing,” despite the fact that a lot of it is actually bad writing.”
― Joseph Heath, Enlightenment 2.0

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