Biography
Nicholas Vrousalis is Associate Professor in Practical Philosophy at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Vrousalis read economics at Cambridge and got his doctorate in philosophy at Oxford. He has since taught moral and political philosophy, economic ethics, and the history of philosophy at the universities of Cambridge, Leiden, and Leuven. Vrousalis has held fellowships at Aarhus, Princeton, and Harvard and has published widely in journals such as Philosophy & Public Affairs, Economics & Philosophy, Journal of Ethics, and Kantian Review. Vrousalis’ second monograph, Exploitation as Domination, was published by Oxford University Press in 2023.
In 2019, Vrousalis was awarded a Vidi grant by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (€800,000) for a project investigating the relationship between freedom and economic inequality.
At EUR, Vrousalis is co-lead of the Digital Society theme in the SSH-Breed programme.
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Work
- Nicholas Vrousalis (2022) - Interdependent Independence: Civil Self-Sufficiency and Productive Community in Kant's Theory of Citizenship - Kantian Review, 27 (3), 443-460 - doi: 10.1017/S1369415422000164 - [link]
- Nicholas Vrousalis (2020) - Public ownership, worker control, and the labour epistocracy problem - Review of Social Economy, 78 - doi: 10.1080/00346764.2020.1840615 - [link]
- Nicholas Vrousalis (2020) - Review of Ernesto Screpanti’s Labour and Value: Rethinking Marx’s Theory of Exploitation. - Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics (EJPE) - doi: 10.23941/ejpe.v13i1.472 - [link]
- Nicholas Vrousalis (2020) - Socialism Unrevised: A Reply to Roemer on Marx, Exploitation, Solidarity, Worker Control - Philosophy & Public Affairs, 49 - doi: 10.1111/papa.12183 - [link]
- Nicholas Vrousalis (2020) - Social democracy needs democratic socialism - Open Democracy - [link]
- Nicholas Vrousalis (2019) - A 35-hour working week for the EU? - [link]
- Nicholas Vrousalis (2019) - Workplace Democracy implies Economic Democracy - Journal of Social Philosophy, 50, 259-279 - doi: 10.1111/josp.12275 - [link]
- Nicholas Vrousalis (2019) - What is Structural Domination?
- Nicholas Vrousalis (2019) - Exploitation as Domination
- Nicholas Vrousalis (2019) - Exploitation and Economic Inequality
- Nicholas Vrousalis (2018) - Capital without Wage-Labour
- Nicholas Vrousalis (2018) - Ideology and the Productive Forces
- Nicholas Vrousalis (2018) - Principles and Strategy in the November Revolution (Germany 1918)
- Nicholas Vrousalis (2018) - How exploiters dominate
- Nicholas Vrousalis (2018) - Exploitation and the Market
- Nicholas Vrousalis (2018) - How exploiters dominate
- Nicholas Vrousalis (2018) - Inequality and the Eurozone
- Nicholas Vrousalis (2023) - Visiting Fellow, Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University
MA Central
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- FW-MA000
Capitalism and Freedom
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- FW-MA0020
