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Buchanan and the Social Contract: Coordination Failures and the Atrophy of Property Rights

open access: yesSouthern Economic Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT James Buchanan advocated that societies should be based on a social contract. He rejected anarchy, seeing it as a “Hobbesian jungle” that calls for government intervention to maintain social order. He also opposed theories of spontaneous order. These views led to debates about the compatibility of Buchanan's works with classical liberalism and
Stefano Dughera, Alain Marciano
wiley   +1 more source

Asian cultural values and help-seeking: a cross-sectional study on compulsive sexual behavior. [PDF]

open access: yesFront Psychiatry
Pham HL   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Fixing the Leaky Pipeline: Affirmative Action in Local Elite Colleges and Subject Choice

open access: yesSouthern Economic Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Women are largely underrepresented in STEM careers associated with higher labor market returns. This gender gap is even more stark in a context where societal biases are prevalent and female role models are lacking. This paper investigates the impact of an affirmative action (AA) policy implemented in an elite educational institution in India ...
Ritika Gupta
wiley   +1 more source

Public Engagement Proposal for Developing Ethical Governance for Science: The Ethna Experience

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The concept of Public Engagement (PE) is related to progress toward responsible and open science. This article aims to analyse how to define and integrate PE into the development of ethical governance systems for research and innovation. Multistakeholder consultation on the governance of Responsible Research and Innovation was carried out ...
Rosana Sanahuja‐Sanahuja   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Freedom of Scientific Inquiry and Democracy. A Systems‐Theoretical Approach

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The article examines the relationship between democracy and one of its inherent features: freedom of scientific inquiry—a multi‐layered concept closely intertwined with the broader notion of academic freedom—both of which are increasingly under threat worldwide. The paper advocates for the use of Luhmann's theoretical framework to analyse this
Krešimir Žažar, Steffen Roth
wiley   +1 more source

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