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Carson E Young, Ph.D

Assistant Professor

(585) 395-2078
cyoung@brockport.edu
Office: Hartwell Hall 117 B

Bio

Carson Young is an assistant professor in the Department of Business Administration at SUNY Brockport. He teaches classes in business ethics, sustainability, and management. He received his Ph.D from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School in 2019.

Young’s work explores philosophical questions related to business ethics, such as: What are the moral constrains on how business firms may pursue profit? In whose interest should business firms be managed? How do features of legal, political, and economic institutions affect the moral responsibilities of business? How should we understand what it means to be an ethical consumer?

Young’s work has been published in scholarly venues including Business Ethics Quarterly, the Journal of Business Ethics, and Business Ethics Journal Review.

Education

PhD, Ethics and Legal Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 2019

MA, Philosophy, Georgia State University, 2014

BA, Philosophy & Economics, Swarthmore College, 2010

Courses Taught

BUS 278: Environmental Ethics and Sustainable Business

BUS 366: Organizational Behavior

BUS 378: Business, Government, and Society

BUS 469: Management Topics Seminar

ECN499/HON380: Political Economy Reading Group

Research Interests

• Business ethics
• Corporate social responsibility
• Sustainability
• Political economy
• Public policy

• Awards/Recognitions

  Grants and Fellowships:

  Spilker Corporate Governance Summer Research Award (Wharton School, 2015-2018)

  Corporate Social Responsibility Fellowship (Wharton School, 2015-2019)

  Humane Studies Fellowship (Institute for Humane Studies, 2014-2018)

  Honors:

  Best Dissertation Award (Society for Business Ethics, 2019)

  Founder’s Award (Society for Business Ethics, 2015)

• Recent Publications

  Refereed Journal Articles

  C Young (w/ N Pitas). “The moral status of leisure in a world with ongoing moral
  catastrophe.” Leisure Sciences, Forthcoming.

  C Young (w/ V Bhargava). 2022. “The ethics of employment at-will: An institutional complementarities approach.” Business Ethics Quarterly, 32(4): 519-545.

  C Young. 2022. “Against Paretianism: A wealth creation approach to business ethics.” Business Ethics Quarterly, 32(3): 475-501.

  C Young. 2022. “Should you buy local?” Journal of Business Ethics, 176(2): 265-281.

  C Young. 2022. “How business ethics can accommodate disruptive innovation without devolving into Calvinball.” Business Ethics Journal Review, 10(3): 14-20.

  C Young (3^rd author w/ S Baba & S Mohammad). 2021. “Managing project sustainability In the extractive industries: Towards a resource-exchange framework of community engagement.” International Journal of Project Management, 39(8): 887-901.

  C Young. 2019. “Putting the law in its place: Business ethics and the assumption that illegal implies unethical.” Journal of Business Ethics, 160(1): 35–51.

   

  Book Reviews, Encyclopedia Contributions, Misc.

  C Young. 2021. “Market failures approach to business ethics.” In Poff, D.C., & Michalos, A.C. (eds), Encyclopedia of Business and Professional Ethics. Springer.

  C Young. 2015. “Review of Morality, Competition, and the Firm by Joseph Heath.” Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, 8(1): 116-122.

• Presentations

  CONFERENCES

  2023 “There is no libertarian theory of corporate governance.” Zicklin Normative
  Business Ethics Workshop, February, The Wharton School, Philadelphia, PA.

  2022 “Do shareholders actually own business corporations? A challenge to libertarian theories of the ethics of corporate governance.” Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Society Annual Conference, November, New Orleans.

  2022 “Pluralism, reflective equilibrium, and the methodology of normative business ethics.” Society for Business Ethics Annual Conference, August, Seattle.

  2020 “The ethics of employment at-will.” Society for Business Ethics Annual
  Conference (virtual).

  2020 “An effective altruist approach to corporate social responsibility.” Business Ethics in the 6ix annual conference, May, virtual conference based in Toronto.

  2020 “An effective altruist approach to corporate social responsibility.” Association for Practical and Professional Ethics Annual Conference, February, Atlanta.

  2019 “Against Paretianism: A wealth creation approach to business ethics.” Society for Business Ethics Annual Conference, August, Boston.

  INVITED TALKS

  2022 “What do business firms owe to their shareholders?.” Business, Faith, and the Common Good speaker series. Heider College of Business, Creighton University, Omaha, NE.

  
  2022 “Do shareholders even own business firms?” Business and the Good Society Lecture, Institute for Humane Studies, July (virtual).