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Toward an Austro‐Libertarian Sociology
ABSTRACT Interventionism has become a defining feature of modern societies, shaping individual behavior, economic activity, and social norms through state regulations, subsidies, and collectivist ideologies. Despite its profound impact, sociology has largely failed to critically examine the dynamics of interventionism from a praxeological standpoint in
Alexis Sémanne
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Peers, equals, and jurors: New data and methods on legal equality in Leveller thought
Abstract We consider the Levellers' conception of equality relative to their contemporaries during the Civil War(s) period. We compile a corpus of hundreds of seventeenth−century pamphlets and combine this with novel word embedding techniques trained on millions of Early Modern English documents to make statements about word “meanings.” We focus on ...
Melissa Schwartzberg, Arthur Spirling
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Empirical realism and democratic equality
Abstract Recently, empirical political scientists have challenged presuppositions about voter behavior that they take to be widespread in normative democratic theory, charging that democratic theory is unmoored from empirical reality. For their part, many normative democratic theorists have rejected empiricists’ characterizations of their subfield and ...
Emma Saunders‐Hastings
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Aristokraten, Werkzeugkisten: Eine problematische "Genealogie" der Genealogie?
Nietzschean genealogy is undoubtedly a central tool in Foucault's 'tool-box' of concepts. Accordingly, Foucault reflects upon his reference to Nietzsche in two famous essays ("Nietzsche, Freud, Marx" and "Nietzsche, Genealogy, History").
Maurice Erb
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Capabilities Approach to Working From Home: Is It the Path to Work Engagement and Work‐Life Balance?
ABSTRACT This study investigates the role of the capabilities approach (as an ethical framework in management) on the well‐being of workers in the context of working from home. A capabilities approach was used to examine the relationship between work engagement and work‐life balance.
João J. Ferreira+4 more
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Right-libertarianism and universal basic income: reasons for skepticism
The purpose of this article is twofold – on the one hand, it offers an overview of the main theoretical orientations of libertarianism, with a focus on right-libertarianism, and its potential support for a universal basic income guarantee; on the other ...
Vlad Andrei TERTELEAC
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A Worthy Heir: Donald Trump, the Republican Party and Climate Change
The aim of this article is to demonstrate that Donald Trump’s commitment to climate skepticism and his hostility toward the very idea of a proactive federal apparatus of environmental regulation do not mark a departure from Republican and conservative ...
Jean-Daniel Collomb
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Free market, blackmail, and Austro-libertarianism
In the present paper we examine the standard Austro-libertarian account of blackmail according to which blackmail should be legal as it does not coerce the blackmailee to part with his property and so cannot be subsumed under extortion.
Łukasz Dominiak
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Abstract I argue that recent developments in my on-going debate with Jan Narveson have brought libertarianism to the brink where it is now able to cross over and join forces with welfare liberalism and even socialism. I summarize my debate with Narveson and then argue that a public concession Narveson made at recent meeting along with a
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This article looks for an understanding and explanation of the responsability of economics in the upsurge and development of the present crisis. It studies the interdependencies between the three streams of ideas which today dominate the departments of ...
Bruno Théret
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