Dialogue on Price Gouging
本文回应Jeremy Snyder关于价格欺诈伦理的文章，论证价格欺诈在道德上可允许，并比较不同制度安排下的分配正义，认为市场定价优于Snyder提出的替代方案。
This commentary develops my position on the ethics of price gouging in response to Jeremy Snyder's article, “What's the Matter with Price Gouging.” First, it explains how the “nonworseness claim” supports the moral permissibility of price gouging, even if it does not show that price gougers are morally virtuous agents. Second, it argues that questions about price gouging and distributive justice must be answered in light of the relevant possible institutional alternatives, and that Snyder's proposed alternatives to price gouging fare worse on the dimension of justice than a system in which goods are allocated by a system of market prices.