Associate Professor of Philosophy, Iowa State University
Kate Padgett Walsh is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Iowa State University. She publishes on the history of ethics and the ethics of debt. She is interested in the ethical questions that surround borrowing, lending, repayment, and default today, and in contextualizing those questions within historical debates discussions of the ethics of debt. She teaches courses on ethical and moral theory, and she holds a B.A. from Middlebury College, an M.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and a Ph.D. from Northwestern University.
The ethics of canceling student debt is more about fairness than broken promises
Oct 31, 2022 08:44 am UTC| Economy
Several groups have opposed President Joe BIdens plan to forgive $10,000 to $20,000 of student debt. Photo by Paul Morigi/Getty Images for We the 45m President Joe Bidens plan to forgive US$10,000 to $20,000 of student...
Student loans and 'risk-sharing' – the problem with penalizing colleges when graduates can't pay
Mar 21, 2019 13:38 pm UTC| Insights & Views Investing Economy
When a student borrows money from the government to go to college and then has serious trouble paying it back, should the college be on the hook to help pay back the government? That question lies at the heart of a...
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