Publications | Fausto Corvino

Authored Books

Corvino, F. (2020). Global Justice, Markets and Domination: A Cosmopolitan Theory. Cheltenham, UK – Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar. ISBN: 9781839102554. https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/global-justice-markets-and-domination-9781839102554.html [Introduction and Chapter 1 available open access: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839102561 ]

Edited Books

Corvino, F. and Andina, T. (eds.) (2023). Global Climate Justice: Theory and Practice. Bristol, UK: E-International Relations. ISBN: 9781910814680. https://www.e-ir.org/p/global-climate-justice-theory-and

Selected journal articles

Endörfer, R. and Corvino, F. (2026). How not to fill the gap: Blended finance and climate justice. Environmental Values, online first, pp 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1177/09632719261456342

Corvino, F. (2026). The forward-looking polluter pays principle for a just climate transition. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, Vol. 29, No. 4, pp.719–746. (First published online in 2023). https://doi.org/10.1080/13698230.2023.2243729

Corvino, F. (2026). Carbon Pricing and Nature Commodification. The Journal of Value Inquiry, online first, pp. 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10790-026-10092-x [pre-copyediting AM available HERE ]

Corvino, F. (2026). Should centimillionaires bear (most of) the burden of international climate finance? Climatic Change, Vol. 179, No. 2, pp. 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-026-04107-6 [view-only version available HERE; pre-copyediting AM available HERE]

Corvino, F. (2025). What could justify a prohibition on the luxury emissions of the very rich? Politics, Philosophy & Economics, Vol. 24, No. 4, pp. 313-333. https://doi.org/10.1177/1470594X241307048 [pre-copyediting AM available HERE]

Corvino, F. (2025). Equal Per Capita Carbon Dividends and the Waste Objection. Environmental Politics, Vol. 34, No. 3, pp. 532-550. (First published online in 2024). https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2024.2384781

Corvino, F. (2025). Carbon Pricing and Intergenerational Fairness. Moral Philosophy and Politics, Vol. 12, No. 1 pp. 205-227. (First published online in 2024). https://doi.org/10.1515/mopp-2023-0108

Corvino, F. (2025). The Compound Injustice of the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM). Ethics, Policy & Environment, Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 26–45. (First published online in 2023) https://doi.org/10.1080/21550085.2023.2272237

Corvino, F. (2024). Why a uniform carbon tax is unjust, no matter how the revenue is used, and should be accompanied by a limitarian carbon tax. Journal of Global Ethics, Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 56-76. https://doi.org/10.1080/17449626.2024.2322168

Andina, T & F. Corvino. (2023). Transgenerational Social Structures and Fictional Actors: Community-Based Responsibility for Future Generations. The Monist, Vol. 106, No. 2, pp. 150–164. https://doi.org/10.1093/monist/onad004

Corvino, F. (2023). Why We Need Future Generations: A Defence of Direct Intergenerational Reciprocity, Economics & Philosophy, Vol. 39, No. 3, pp. 395-422. (First published online in 2022). https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266267122000116

Corvino, F., G. Pellegrini-Masini, A. Pirni, S. Maran. (2021). Compensation For Energy Infrastructures: Can a Capability Approach Be More Equitable? Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 197-217. https://doi.org/10.1080/19452829.2021.1887106

Corvino, F. (2019). Republican Freedom in the Labour Market: Exploitation Without Interpersonal Domination, Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory, Vol. 66, No. 158: 103-131. https://doi.org/10.3167/th.2019.6615805

Interdisciplinary Research Articles

Corvino F. (2026). How to navigate the EU’s CBAM trilemma: A review of policy objectives and possible designs. Open Research Europe, Vol. 6, Art. 5, pp. 1-22. https://doi.org/10.12688/openreseurope.22147.2

Leocata, M., Livieri, G., Morlacchi, S., Corvino, F., Flandoli, F., and Pirni, A. (2026). Understanding the householder solar panel consumer: a Markovian Model and its Societal implications. Technological Forecasting & Social Change, Vol. 225, Art. 124555, pp. 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2026.124555

Flandoli, F., Leocata, M., Livieri, G., Morlacchi, S., Corvino, F., and Pirni, A. (2026). Structural properties in the diffusion of the solar photovoltaic in Italy: individual people/householder vs firms. Decisions in Economics and Finance, Vol. 49, No. 1, pp. 431–457. (First published online in 2025) https://doi.org/10.1007/s10203-025-00532-x

Corvino, F. (2025). Luxury-Focused Climate Mitigation Policies: A Comparative Ethical Analysis. PLOS Climate, Vol. 4, No. 11, Art. e0000740, pp. 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000740

Other Journal Articles

Corvino, F. (2025). The Burden-Sharing Implications of the Fixed-Identity Argument in Climate Ethics. Philosophia, Vol. 53, No. 1, pp. 281-295. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-025-00840-x [view-only version available HERE; pre-copyediting AM available HERE]

Corvino, F. (2022). Kant on Remote Working: A Moral Defence, Philosophy of Management, Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 265-279. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40926-021-00189-7 [view-only version available HERE]

Corvino, F. (2022). The Disaggregation of Climate-Induced Harm: An Impossible Undertaking for Utilitarians. Teorema, Vol. 41, No.1, pp. 29-50. https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=8338624

Corvino, F. (2021). The Covid-19 Pandemic and Climate Change: Some Lessons Learned on Individual Ethics and Social Justice. Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia, Vol. 77, No. 2-3, pp. 691-714. https://doi.org/10.17990/RPF/2021_77_2_0691 [JSTOR PDF available HERE]

Corvino, F. and Pirni, A. (2021). Discharging the Moral Responsibility for Collective Unjust Enrichment in the Global Economy. Theoria: An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science, Vol. 36, No. 1, pp. 139-158. https://doi.org/10.1387/theoria.21237

Corvino, F. (2020). Sweatshops, Harm and Exploitation: A Proposal to Operationalise the Model Of Structural Injustice. Conatus - Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 9-23. https://doi.org/10.12681/cjp.24898

Corvino, F. (2019). The Non-identity Objection to Intergenerational Harm: A Critical Re-examination. International Journal of Applied Philosophy, Vol. 33, No. 2, pp. 165-185. https://doi.org/10.5840/ijap2020228126

Corvino, F. (2019). Kant On Human Progress and Global Inequality. Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia, Vol. 75, No. 1, pp. 477-512. https://doi.org/10.17990/RPF/2019_75_1_0477 [JSTOR PDF available HERE]

Corvino, F. (2019). Labour Commodification and Global Justice. Kriterion – Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 33, No. 1: 53-88. https://doi.org/10.1515/krt-2019-330104

Corvino, F. (2015). Punishing Atypical Dirty Hands: Assessing the Moral Value of Coordination Failure. International Journal of Applied Philosophy, Vol. 29, No. 2: 281-297. https://doi.org/10.5840/ijap201612755

Articles in Italian Journals

Corvino, F. (2024). Is It Morally Justifiable To Pass on Part of the Costs of Pivotal Climate Action to Future Generations? Philosophy and Public Issues – Filosofia e questioni pubbliche, Vol. 2024, No.1, pp. 53-75. https://doi.org/10.17473/2240-7987-2024-1-4

Corvino, F. (2023). Climate Justice: Risks and Advantages of Going Distributive. Notizie di Politeia, Vol. 39, No. 151, pp. 122-128. http://www.politeia-centrostudi.org/doc/Selezione/151/Abstract%20Corvino.pdf

Corvino, F., Pirni, A. (2022). L’Etica del Cambiamento Climatico alla Prova dell’Inefficacia Causale Individuale: Discutendo la Libertà Collettiva di Emissione di Gas Serra Rispetto all’Obiettivo di 1.5°C. Rivista di Estetica, Vol. 80, No. 2, pp. 165-186. https://doi.org/10.4000/estetica.14474

Corvino, F. (2022). The Climate Exemption from the Office: the Environmental Case for Remote Working, Notizie di Politeia, Vol. 38, No. 146, pp. 92-111. http://www.politeia-centrostudi.org/doc/Selezione/146/Abstract%20Corvino.pdf [pre-copy-edited AM available HERE]

Pirni, A. and Corvino, F. (2019). Lo spazio teorico della giustizia intergenerazionale: linee per un percorso di ricerca. Lessico di Etica Pubblica, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 1-15. https://www.eticapubblica.it/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/0.-Pirni-Corvino.pdf

Corvino, F. (2019). La giustizia globale al tempo della globalizzazione convergente. Notizie di Politeia, Vol. 35, No. 136, pp. 185-204. http://www.politeia-centrostudi.org/doc/Selezione/136/Abstract%20Corvino.pdf

Corvino, F. (2019). The Moral Implications of the Global Basic Structure as a Subject of Justice. Glocalism: Journal of Culture, Politics and Innovation, Vol. 2019, No. 2: 1-36. https://doi.org/10.12893/gjcpi.2019.2.3

Corvino, F. (2019). Utility, Priorities, and Quiescent Sufficiency. Etica & Politica / Ethics & Politics, Vol. XXI, No. 3, pp. 525-552. https://doi.org/10.13137/1825-5167/29519

Corvino, F. (2015). Cosmopolitan Utilitarianism and the Problem of Local Inaction in a Globalized World. Glocalism: Journal of Culture, Politics and Innovation, Vol. 3, No. 2: 1-20. https://doi.org/10.12893/gjcpi.2015.2.5

Edited Journal Special Issues

Corvino, F, Pellegrino, G., and Pirni, A. (eds.) (2024). Book symposium on Henry Shue’s The Pivotal Generation: Why We Have a Moral Responsibility to Slow Climate Change Right Now (Princeton University Press, 2021). Philosophy and Public Issues – Filosofia e questioni pubbliche, Vol. 2024, No. 1, pp. 1-209. https://www.fqpjournal.com/Tool/NewsletterArchive/Detail/view_html?id_newsletter=1&anno_rivista=2024

Andina, T. and Corvino, F. (eds.) (2023). Transgenerationality, Community and Justice. The Monist, Vol. 106, No. 2, pp. 1-223. https://academic.oup.com/monist/issue/106/2

Pirni, A. and Corvino, F. (eds.) (2019), La giustizia intergenerazionale in un’epoca di crescenti disuguaglianze. Lessico di Etica Pubblica, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 1-164. https://www.eticapubblica.it/lessico-di-etica-pubblica-la-giustizia-intergenerazionale-in-unepoca-di-crescenti-disuguaglianze-anno-x-numero-22019-issn-2039-2206-a-cura-di-a-pirni-f/

Book Chapters in English

Corvino, F. (2023). Climate Change and the Circumstances of Justice. In Handbook of the Philosophy of Climate Change, edited by Gianfranco Pellegrino and Marcello Di Paola, pp. 1065–1081. Cham, CH: Springer. ISBN: 9783031070013. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07002-0_88

Andina, T. and Corvino, F. (2023). Climate Change, the Non-identity Problem, and the Metaphysics of Transgenerational Actions, In Handbook of the Philosophy of Climate Change, edited by Gianfranco Pellegrino and Marcello Di Paola, pp. 663–684. Cham, CH: Springer. ISBN: 9783031070013. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07002-0_110

Corvino, F and Andina, T. (2023). Introduction: The Global Philosophy of the (Global) Carbon Budget. In Global Climate Justice: Theory and Practice, edited by Fausto Corvino and Tiziana Andina, pp. 1-20. Bristol, UK: E-International Relations. ISBN: 9781910814680. https://www.e-ir.org/p/global-climate-justice-theory-and

Corvino, F. (2023). The Polluter Pays Principle and the Energy Transition. In Global Climate Justice: Theory and Practice, edited by Fausto Corvino and Tiziana Andina, pp. 151-171. Bristol, UK: E-International Relations. ISBN: 9781910814680. https://www.e-ir.org/p/global-climate-justice-theory-and

Corvino, F. (2021). Climate Change, Individual Preferences, and Procrastination, In Climate Justice and Feasibility: Normative Theorizing, Feasibility Constraints, and Climate Action, edited by Sarah Kenehan and Corey Katz, pp. 193-212. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN: 9781538154199. https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/climate-justice-and-feasibility-9781538154199/

Pellegrini-Masini, G., Corvino, F. Löfquist, L. (2019). Energy Justice and Intergenerational Ethics: Theoretical Perspectives and Institutional Designs. In Energy Justice Across Borders, edited by Gunter Bombaerts, Kirsten Jenkins and Yekeen Sanusi, pp. 253-272. Cham, CH:: Springer. ISBN: 9783030240219. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24021-9_13

Pellegrini-Masini, G., Corvino, F., and Pirni, A. (2019). Climate justice in practice: adapting democratic institutions and citizenship. In A Research Agenda for Climate Justice, edited by P.G. Harris, pp. 104-117. Cheltenham, UK – Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar. ISBN: 9781788118163. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788118170.00014

Book Chapters in Italian

Corvino, F. and Frigo, G. (2023). Sostenibilità. In Filosofia contemporanea. Nuova Edizione, edited by Tiziana Andina and Gregorio Fracchia, pp. 393-422. Roma: Carocci. ISBN: 9788829020829. https://www.carocci.it/prodotto/filosofia-contemporanea-2 [pre-copy-edited AM available HERE]

Corvino, F. (2020). Preferenze adattive e dominio senza interferenza interpersonale: le forme nascoste di violenza di genere. In Violenze al Bivio: Quando la violenza di genere viene esercitata nei contesti sociali, professionali, familiari, AA. VV., pp. 114-132. Milano: Franco Angeli. ISBN: 9788835103363. https://www.francoangeli.it/Libro/Violenze-al-bivio-Quando-la-violenza-di-genere-viene-esercitata-nei-contesti-sociali,-professionali,-familiari?Id=26473

Corvino, F. (2020). Giovani Emigrati, Crescita Economica e Mobilità Sociale. In Italiani emigrati all’estero. Progettualità, rotte, adattamento e rientro in Italia, edited by Serena Gianfaldoni, pp. 277-301. Pisa: Pisa University Press. ISBN 978-883339-3384. https://www.pisauniversitypress.it/scheda-libro/serena-gianfaldoni/italiani-emigrati-allestero-9788833393384-575693.html

Corvino, F. (2019). L’autonomia morale del lavoratore. In Principi e strumenti per Gestire le Risorse Umane, edited by Serena Gianfaldoni and Marco Giannini. Pisa: Pisa University Press. ISBN: 978-883339-2196. https://www.pisauniversitypress.it/scheda-libro/autori-vari/principi-e-strumenti-per-gestire-le-risorse-umane-9788833392196-575559.html

Public Engagement and Other Publications

Corvino, F. (2025). Why the 'Finance COP' Failed Climate Justice: The Need for Pricing Carbon. Philosophy World Democracy. 12/02/2025. https://www.philosophy-world-democracy.org/posts/article/why-the-finance-cop-failed-climate-justice-the-need-for-pricing-carbon

Corvino, F. (2024). COP29: Why the 'sandwich' approach to climate finance is an affront to climate justice. Radical Ecological Democracy. 11/12/2024. https://radicalecologicaldemocracy.org/cop29-why-the-sandwich-approach-to-climate-finance-is-an-affront-to-climate-justice/

Corvino, F. (2024). COP29 – Rethinking Climate Finance Responsibility. Radical Ecological Democracy. 08/11/2024. https://radicalecologicaldemocracy.org/cop29-rethinking-climate-finance-responsibility/

Corvino, F. (2024). Europe’s climate laws could spell the end to low-cost flights - but what about private jets?. The Conversation. 20/05/2024. https://doi.org/10.64628/AAK.qhn6fawpu (Also in French: https://doi.org/10.64628/AAK.qtfa6hkad )

Corvino, F. and Stefancic, M. (2022). Is Italy’s new vision for environmental protection a real commitment to carbon neutrality?. Radical Ecological Democracy. 03/04/2022.

Corvino, F. A Fair Allocation of the Costs of Precarious Employment: A Proposal for Europe, Future Markets Consultations, 12/04/2021. Winner of the 2021 Future Markets Consultation Essay Prize (young scholars category). https://www.moralmarkets.org/2021/fair-allocation-costs-precarious-employment-proposal-europe/

Corvino, F. (2021). The Intersectional Approach to Intergenerational Justice: A First Sketch. Academia Letters, Article 594, pp. 1-7. https://doi.org/10.20935/AL594

Corvino, F. (2021). An Egalitarian Carbon Tax: Revenue-neutral and Dual Policy Package. WEA Commentaries, Vol. 11, No.3, pp. 2-4. https://www.worldeconomicsassociation.org/newsletterarticles/carbon-tax/

Corvino, F. (2021). Tassare l’anidride carbonica per ridurre il cuneo fiscale: una proposta per la sinistra europea. Economia e Politica, Vol. 13, No. 21, pp. 1-5. https://www.economiaepolitica.it/politiche-economiche/tassare-lanidride-carbonica-per-ridurre-il-cuneo-fiscale-una-proposta-per-la-sinistra-europea/

Corvino, F. Lifting lockdown – a tragedy of the commons. OpenDemocracy, 16/12/2020. https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/lifting-lockdown-a-tragedy-of-the-commons/

Corvino, F. The italian way to populism. OpenDemocracy, 09/05/2017. https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/italian-way-to-populism/

Corvino, F. Is the 'migrant crisis' simply a question of humanitarian assistance?. OpenDemocracy, 01/10/2015. https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/migrant-crisis-humanitarian-assistance/

Book Reviews

Corvino, F. (2023) Social class in Europe: New inequalities in the old world: by Cédric Hugrée, Etienne Penissat, and Alexis Spire, translated by Rachel Gomme and Eunice Sanya Pelini, New York, NY, Verso, 2020, 207 pp., $24.95 (paperback), ISBN 9781788736282. The Social Science Journal, Vol. 60, No.1, pp. 150-152. https://doi.org/10.1080/03623319.2021.2014212

Corvino, F. (2021). “Reimagining Capitalism: how Business can Save the World” by Rebecca Henderson. (London: Penguin Business, 2020). Glocalism: Journal of Culture, Politics and Innovation, Vol. 2021, No. 3, pp. 1-6. https://doi.org/10.12893/gjcpi.2021.3.2

Corvino, F. (2020). Samuel Scheffler, Why Worry About Future Generations? (Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. Paperback edition, 2020). Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 403-405. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-020-10152-6

Corvino, F. (2020). Jan-Christoph Heilinger: Cosmopolitan Responsibility - Global Injustice, Relational Equality, and Individual Agency (Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2020). Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Vol. 23, No. 3-4, pp. 685-687. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-020-10089-w

Corvino, F. (2018). Fana, M. (2017), Non è lavoro, è sfruttamento (Roma-Bari: Laterza, 2017), Scuola democratica - Learning for Democracy, Vol. 2018, No. 2, pp. 446-448. https://doi.org/10.12828/90577

Corvino, F. (2017). A Review: D. De Masi, Lavorare gratis, lavorare tutti. Perché il futuro è dei disoccupati (“Working For Free, Working Everybody: Why the Future Belongs to the Unemployed”) (Milano: Rizzoli, 2017). Glocalism: Journal of Culture, Politics and Innovation, Vol. 6, No.3, pp. 1-6. https://doi.org/10.12893/gjcpi.2017.3.7