The 2005 Australian Conference of Economists will be held at the University of Melbourne from Monday 26th to Wednesday 28th September 2005. Confirmed speakers include: Olivier Blanchard (MIT), Alison Booth (ANU), Roger Craine (Berkeley), David Fielding (Otago), James Galbraith (Texas), Simon...

Economic and social sets of human rights (like political and civil rights) have been primarily defined as individual rights. John Rawls for instance deals with the problem "how a society should determine what constitutes a basic set of rights and thus constitutes justice: each of us should go...