Freedom and Flourishing

  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...

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

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

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

  Max Borders shares his personal philosophy of life in his book, The Decentralist: Mission, morality and meaning in the age of crypto . H...

  I was pondering this question while reading David Eagleman’s book, Livewired: the inside story of the ever-changing brain. Eagleman is a n...

  This question arose as I was reading about the theme of this year’s NAIDOC week. NAIDOC week, held this year from 4-11 July, celebrates th...

  The charts shown above suggest that some of the assessments that political partisans make of the views of their opponents are wildly inacc...

  The quoted passage comes near the end of T.S. Eliot’s poem , Little Gidding, which was written in Britain during the Second World War. Eli...

This is an appropriate question for economists with an interest in public policy to be considering. It recognizes a possible role for ...