While "ethically-motivated consumption" can be traced back to at least the 19th century, globalization has recently prompted renewed attention to the promise and limits of consumption to further broader ethical and political goals. This paper evaluates factors that promote political consumption,...

We explore the role of cheap excuses in product choice. If a product improves upon one ethically relevant dimension, agents may care less about other, completely independent ethical facets of the product. This ‘static moral self-licensing' would extend the logic of the well studied moral...