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Incomplete Social Contracts [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of the European Economic Association, 2003
There is a long normative ‘Social Contract’ tradition that attempts to characterize ex-post income inequalities that are agreeable to all ‘behind a veil of ignorance.’ This paper takes a similar normative approach to characterize social decision-making procedures.
Aghion, Philippe, Bolton, Patrick
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South Africa’s social contract: the Economic Freedom Fighters and the rise of a new constituent power?

open access: yesActa Academica, 2018
Taking the South African constitution as an eminent symbol of the South African social contract, and noting the opinion of many that the contract has failed to deliver, this article explores the concept of the social contract in South Africa by ...
Rachel Adams
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The Social Contract for AI

open access: yesCoRR, 2020
Like any technology, AI systems come with inherent risks and potential benefits. It comes with potential disruption of established norms and methods of work, societal impacts and externalities. One may think of the adoption of technology as a form of social contract, which may evolve or fluctuate in time, scale, and impact.
Mirka Snyder Caron, Abhishek Gupta
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Exploring the psychological contract of black British clerical workers in UK local authorities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.This paper investigates the nature of the psychological contract (PC) of black Brit-ish workers in UK local authorities. Psychological contract describes an
Dadi, Vincent
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Between Covenant and Contract: Jewish Political Thought and Contemporary Political Theory

open access: yesReligions, 2023
Social contract theory has long been at the center of political theory, and one of the inheritors of the social contract tradition, liberalism, reverberates through contemporary political life.
Sarah B. Greenberg
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Moral Community and Moral Order

open access: yesErasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, 2020
This work aligns James Buchanan’s theory of social contract with the structure of Michael Moehler’s multilevel social contract. Most importantly, this work develops Buchanan’s notions of moral community and moral order.
James Caton
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Demography and the social contract [PDF]

open access: yesDemography, 2002
Abstract As the most demographically complex nation in the world, the United States faces ever more formidable challenges to fulfill its commitment to the democratic values of equity and inclusion as the foreign-born share of the population increases.
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Remarks on Andreas Abegg's paper “From the Social Contract to a Social Contract Law” [PDF]

open access: yesAncilla Iuris, 2008
The fact that a big, tacit social contract crumbles into a multitude of tiny explicit contracts, which govern a load of social duties, relationships and behaviours, is a striking and enigmatic phenomenon.
Maurizio Borghi
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The social contract as a trend of transforming the low-income state social support: trends and risks

open access: yesСемиотические исследования, 2023
The article is devoted to the issue of introducing social contracts into the practice of state social support for low-income citizens. The author considers the social contract as a trend of the state social support institutional transformation and a tool
Svetlana V. Egorova
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The civilizational value of a contract [PDF]

open access: yesSHS Web of Conferences, 2022
The article reveals the civilizational value of a contract as a social phenomenon (legal and non-legal). The contours of the general theory of contract are outlined; the concept of contract as an act of will is formulated, its nature as the most ...
Kazantsev Mikhail Fedorovich
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