Showing posts with label social capital. Show all posts
Showing posts with label social capital. Show all posts
Thursday, August 7, 2025

Are declining economic growth rates likely to have undesirable impacts on social attitudes?

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  Research for an earlier essay on this blog led to the conclusion that declining economic growth rates in high income countries are likely...
Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Can Empirical Natural Rights be viewed as metanormative principles?

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  Prior to attempting to answer the question posed above I briefly outline the concept of individual rights as metanormative principles - as...
Monday, November 25, 2024

Should Libertarians be Attempting to Influence Culture: A Discussion with Winton Bates and Chris Matthew Sciabarra (III)

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  In this third instalment of our collaboration, we move on to consider more specifically how libertarians should respond to some illiberal ...
Monday, March 18, 2024

Why should peacefulness be viewed as a characteristic of a good society?

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  In the most popular post on my blog, written in 2009, I asked: What are the characteristics of a good society? I began the post by sugges...
Thursday, February 29, 2024

Is ecological justice also a mirage?

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  David Schmidtz advocates “ecological justice” in his book, Living Together : Inventing Moral Science. Although Schmidtz does not refer to ...
Wednesday, June 7, 2023

To what extent do international differences in economic freedom reflect people's values?

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  This is a companion piece to the preceding post in which I considered the extent to which international differences in personal freedom r...
Monday, April 10, 2023

Can cottage industries exist in a machine age?

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 J C Kumarappa posed that question his book, Economy of Permanence, which was first published in 1945. He argued that in the final analysis...