Steven McMullen is Assistant Professor of Economics at Hope
College in Holland, Michigan, US, and a fellow at the Oxford Centre for Animal
Ethics, UK. His research and writing has focused on ethics in the economy and
education policy.
This bookexplores the economic institutions that determine the nature of animal lives assystematically exploited objects traded in a market economy. It examines humanroles and choice in the system, including the economic logic of agriculture,experimentation, and animal ownership, and analyses the marginalization ofethical action in the economic system.
This bookexplores the economic institutions that determine the nature of animal lives assystematically exploited objects traded in a market economy. It examines humanroles and choice in the system, including the economic logic of agriculture,experimentation, and animal ownership, and analyses the marginalization ofethical action in the economic system.