The death of welfare economics has been declared several times. One of the reasons cited for these plural obituaries is that Kenneth Arrow's impossibility theorem, as set out in his path-breaking Social Choice and Individual Values in 1951, has shown that the social welfare function - one of the...

Some notable contemporary political theorists (Rorty, Schaar, Taylor) insist that patriotism is indispensable to democratic political communities. Laden with necessary affect, patriotism furnishes citizens with a sense of loyalty, commitment, devotion, and purpose on which democracies depend and...