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Richard Locke

Richard Locke is the Department Head of Political Science and Class of 1922 Professor of Political Science and Management at MIT, and co-author of Working in America: A Blueprint for the New Labor Market.

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Class & Inequality, Podcast

The Promise of Ethical Consumption

“Buy local,” “buy green,” “buy organic” . . . we cannot buy anything without considering its moral implications. How has consumption become suffused with right and wrong? How effective has the ethical-consumption movement been in changing market behavior?

Dara O’Rourke, Scott Nova, Richard Locke, Jens Hainmueller

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