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Peter Jaworski

Associate Teaching Professor

McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University

Peter Martin Jaworski is an Associate Teaching Professor teaching Ethical Values of Business to undergraduates and Ethical Leadership to MBAs and Executive MBAs. He was a Visiting Research Professor at Brown University, a Visiting Assistant Professor at the College of Wooster, and an Instructor at Bowling Green State University. Also, he is a co-founder of the Institute for Liberal Studies (Ottawa) and an adjunct scholar with the Cato Institute and the Niskanen Center (Washington, DC).

Peter’s academic work has been published or is forthcoming in the Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, the Journal of Business Ethics, Business Ethics Journal Review, Ethical Theory, Moral Practice, the Journal of Value Inquiry, and Locke Studies. Along with Jason Brennan, Peter is the author of “Markets without Limits: Moral Virtues and Commercial Interests,” published in 2016.

Peter holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Bowling Green State University, an M.A in Philosophy and Public Policy from London School of Economics, an M.A in Philosophy from the University of Waterloo, and a B.A in Philosophy from Queen’s University.

Blog Posts

Pay for bone marrow, save lives

November 29, 2016
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Role of Government

This past week, I was on a panel for a Senate Hill Briefing entitled “Should compensation for bone marrow donors be legal?” The panel included myself, Robert McNamara (Institute for Justice), Mario Macis (Associate Professor of Economics, Johns Hopkins Carey School of Business), Samuel Hammond (Poverty and Welfare Policy Analyst, Niskanen Center), and Doug Grant (founder and CEO of Hemeos). The event was co-sponsored by the Niskanen Center and the Georgetown Institute for the Study of Markets and Ethics. The Niskanen Center’s Samuel Hammond released a report entitled “Bone Marrow Mismatch”

Ethicists Statement on Compensating Bone Marrow Donors

September 21, 2016
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Basic Economics

A former student of mine, Doug Grant, founded a company called Hemeos. Hemeos was founded in the wake of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision in Flynn v. Holder. Flynn held that paying people for bone marrow donations through a process called peripheral blood stem cell apheresis was perfectly legal. They reasoned that this type of donation is too similar to an ordinary blood donation, or blood plasma donation, for the former to be prohibited while the latter is permitted. That ruling came down in 2012. With over 1,000 people dying every year for want of a matching donor — a problem that