Showing posts with label Economic freedom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Economic freedom. Show all posts
Monday, June 16, 2025

What role has political entrepreneurship played in changes in human freedom this century?

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  For the purposes of this exercise, I have used the Human Freedom Index , published by Cato and the Fraser Institute,   to identify which ...
Saturday, June 7, 2025

Where did Carl Schmitt go wrong in his critique of democracy?

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  I first became aware of Carl Schmitt about 30 years ago while reading Friedrich Hayek’s book, Law, Legislation and Liberty. At that stage...
Sunday, April 20, 2025

What role does political entrepreneurship play in institutional change?

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  One of the reasons I quoted that passage by Douglass North is because it mentions political entrepreneurship. I went looking for a quote f...
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Can the concept of political entrepreneurship help us to understand authoritarianism?

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  In this essay I discuss the relevance of the concept of political entrepreneurship to an understanding of political outcomes that have sub...
Wednesday, April 3, 2024

Is Alexander Hamilton's ideal of a modern commercial republic still relevant today?

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  Alexander Hamilton was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He served as secretary to the Treasury from 1789 to 1795 during t...
Thursday, February 15, 2024

What makes a narrative good?

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  I asked myself the question posed above as I was reading Mich èle Lamont’s book , Seeing Others , How to Redefine Worth in a Divided World...