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Harvard Kennedy School faculty disseminate their research in working publications and papers that contribute to public knowledge and fuel policy innovation. This list features recent faculty publications, including journal articles, books, edited volumes, research papers, and public testimony.

Faculty Publications

Chasing Capital: The Ethics of Tax Competition

Risse, Mathias, and Marco Meyer. "Chasing Capital: The Ethics of Tax Competition." Review of by Peter Dietsch. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, March 19, 2016.

Review of Bloomsbury Companion to Political Philosophy

Risse, Mathias. Review of Bloomsbury Companion to Political Philosophy, ed. Andrew Fiala. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, January 23, 2016.

Review of Dignity in Adversity: Human Rights in Troubled Times

Risse, Mathias. Review of Dignity in Adversity: Human Rights in Troubled Times, by Seyla Benhabib.122.4, July 2012: 790-797.

Review of Dignity in Adversity: Human Rights in Troubled Times

Risse, Mathias. Review of Dignity in Adversity: Human Rights in Troubled Times, by Seyla Benhabib. Ethics, 122.4, July 2012: 790-797.

Responsibility for Justice

Risse, Mathias. "Responsibility for Justice." Review of Responsibility for Justice, by Iris Marion Young. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, February 2011: 224.

Review of Politics and the Imagination, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

Risse, Mathias. Review of Politics and the Imagination, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, by Raymond Geuss. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, April 10, 2010.

Review of The Political Philosophy of Cosmopolitanism

Risse, Mathias. Review of The Political Philosophy of Cosmopolitanism, Ed. Gillian Brock and Harry Brighouse. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, January 2007.

Review of Economic Justice in an Unfair World: Towards a Level Playing Field

Risse, Mathias. Review of Economic Justice in an Unfair World: Towards a Level Playing Field, by Ethan B. Kapstein. World Trade Review, 6.1 2007: 123-133.

Review of Humanitarian Intervention

Risse, Mathias. Review of Humanitarian Intervention, Ed. Terry Nardin and Melissa S. Williams. Ethics & International Affairs, 20.3 2006: 385-388.

Review of Nietzsche's Critiques: The Kantian Foundations of His Thought and Nietzsche, Biology and Metaphor

Risse, Mathias. Review of Nietzsche's Critiques: The Kantian Foundations of His Thought and Nietzsche, Biology and Metaphor, by R. Kevin Hill and Gregory Moore, respectively. European Journal of Philosophy, 14.3 December 2006: 438-448.

Should Citizens of a Welfare State be Transformed into 'Queens'?

Risse, Mathias. "Should Citizens of a Welfare State be Transformed into 'Queens'?" Critical Notice of Motivation, Agency and Public Policy: Of Knights, Knaves, Pawns and Queens, by Julian Le Grand. Economics and Philosophy, 21.2 October 2005: 279-289.

Review of A Measure of Freedom

Risse, Mathias. Review of A Measure of Freedom, by Ian Carter. Ethics, 114.2 January 2004: 340-343.

Review of Zarathustra's Secret: The Interior Life of Friedrich Nietzsche

Risse, Mathias. Review of Zarathustra's Secret: The Interior Life of Friedrich Nietzsche, by Joachim Köhler. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2003.01.13 January 2003.

Bayesianism – Quo Vadis?

Risse, Mathias. "Bayesianism – Quo Vadis?" Critical Notice of Foundations of Bayesianism, Ed. David Corfield and Jon Williamson. Philosophy of Science, 70.1 2003: 225-232.