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Showing posts with label political theory. Show all posts
Showing posts with label political theory. Show all posts
Friday, September 6, 2019

Thomas Piketty’s New Book Brings Political Economy Back to Its Sources — Branko Milanovic

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In the same way that Capital in the Twenty-First Century transformed the way economists look at inequality, Piketty’s new book Capital and ...
Wednesday, August 14, 2019

The road to serfdom before Hayek (Knight, Lippmann, and a note on Weber today) — Eric Schliesser

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So, here's my hypothesis. The road to serfdom thesis was if not inspired by Lippmann, at least prompted, in part, by him. But Lippmann ...
Tuesday, February 19, 2019

Yanis Varoufakis — Utopian science fictions legitimising our current dystopia – 2019 Taylor Lecture, Oxford University

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Big! We really need to be talking about this and examining assumptions and presuppositions that act as hidden assumptions. Yanis is a syste...
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Thursday, February 14, 2019

Barkley Rosser — Who Is Really A Socialist? [Updated]

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Barkley Rosser either makes a bad mistake in starting with Marx's definition of "socialism" as state-ownership of the means o...
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Tuesday, January 29, 2019

Bill Mitchell — The conflicting concepts of cosmopolitan within Europe – Part 1

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In the past week, the UK Guardian readers were confronted with the on-going scandal of wealthy British politicians and ‘peers’ receiving ma...
Friday, October 26, 2018

Eric Schliesser — On Presidents

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On Alexander Hamilton's argument for dictatorship in a republic. Digressions&Impressions On Presidents Eric Schliesser | Professo...
Friday, August 3, 2018

Doug Greene — More Than Universal Healthcare: The Meaning of Socialism

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Young people are turning to socialism, and Democratic Party politicians are adopting the term. But what is socialism? My own summary answe...
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Saturday, June 30, 2018

Simon Wren-Lewis — Could the US become a democratic dictatorship?

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Simon Wren-Lewis wanders into political theory. Mainly Macro Could the US become a democratic dictatorship? Simon Wren-Lewis | Emeritu...
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Tuesday, March 13, 2018

Peter Turchin Can Fascism Happen Here?

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Peter Turchin equates fascism with tyranny, but I don't think that is correct.  Fascism is a modern political theory, while tyranny ...
Tuesday, January 16, 2018

Paul Sagar — The real Adam Smith

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Setting the record straight. Aeon The real Adam Smith Paul Sagar | lecturer in political theory in the Department of Political Economy, K...
Monday, August 21, 2017

Mark S. Weiner — Trumpism and the Philosophy of History

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This is a summary distinction between liberalism and traditionalism, although Weiner doesn't use the term traditionalism specifically. T...
Saturday, August 12, 2017

Jehu — Rethinking Marx’s Grand Strategy

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Comparison and contrast of   Ferdinand Lassalle , Mikhail Bakunin , and Karl Marx stated simply. The Real Movement Rethinking Marx’s Gr...

Lars P. Syll — Habermas and Rorty on intersubjectivity and truth

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This cuts for the core of liberalism. The liberalism that characterizes the West is a political theory based on ontological, epistemologi...
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Friday, August 4, 2017

Levan Vasadze — Challenges of Modern Traditionalism

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As professor Dugin rightfully says in many of his lectures and books, the individual subjects or the centers of three mentioned totalitaria...
Wednesday, December 14, 2016

Scotty Hendricks — Beyond the Welfare State: John Rawls and the Property Owning Democracy

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Brief explanation of the political theory of John Rawls based on fairness. Big Think Beyond the Welfare State: John Rawls and the Property...
Sunday, November 27, 2016

J. Bradford DeLong — When Is Responsible Democratic Governance Possible? The Classical View: Never

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Democracy Must Be Irresponsible: So Responsible Governance Must Be Undemocratic This is why America was founded as a democratic republic r...
Thursday, September 1, 2016

Jon Hellevig — The Scientific Essence of Economy – Capitalism and Socialism versus a Democratic Competitive Market Economy

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Must-read if you are into foundations of economic and political theory. Useful even if you are not, since Jon Hellevig debunks a lot of t...
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Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Katehon — Theories of Globalization

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Brief summary of the field. Backgrounder. Katehon Theories of Globalization
Friday, January 1, 2016

Neil Wilson — The Left's Love of Higher Law

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One thing I've noticed during debates over the past year or so, is that those on the Left are particularly keen on the concept of Rule ...
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Friday, December 25, 2015

Richard Bourke — Burke was no conservative

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Edmund Burke, one of the great statesmen and philosophers of the 18th century, is the founder of modern conservatism. Or so it is commonly ...