This article lays the foundations of a paradigm to feed a dialogue on what might amount to a socio-economic theory. The key building stones concern the actors utility, rationality and relationship to others. It draws on the theory laid out in The Moral Dimension: Towards a New Economics...

Policy researchers — and think tanks — are rarely evaluated in terms of the results of their endeavors. This is the case despite the fact that American society tends to rank most everything from the reputation of physicians to the number of books an author sells, from football players to the...