Novel externalities.

Novel externalities are social activities for which the emerging cost (or benefit) of the spillover is unknown and must be discovered. Negative novel externalities have regained international salience following the COVID-19 pandemic. Such cases frequently are invoked as evidence of the limits of liberal political economy for dealing with public emergencies.

Nothing Much for Philosophers.

In this article, I argue that by discarding the significance of philosophical methods and tools, the picture of field philosophy offered in is more akin to public interest consulting than to philosophy.