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Social Policy in Canada – Looking Back, Looking Ahead
Hicks, Peter - 2012
This paper discusses recent policy trends in Canada, the changing role of the various actors in the system, international comparisons and a range of other social policy topics. The immediate purpose of the paper is to examine the reasons why social policy analysts need to look to the future and...
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The Uneasy Case for the Flat Tax
Buckley, Francis; Rasmusen, Eric - EconWPA - 1999
There is a secret paradox at the heart of social contract theories. Such theories assume that, because personal security and private property are at risk in a state of nature, subjects will agree to grant Leviathan a monopoly of violence. But what is to prevent Leviathan from turning on his...
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he Parent-Child Relation in Hobbes: Beyond Private Life and Public Reason (English version)
BILBA, Corneliu - In: Revista de cercetare si interventie sociala 32 (2011) March, pp. 172-193
We proposed a reading of Hobbes to analyze the way in which the issue of family and especially the parent … contract. For this purpose we applied to Hobbes Rawls’s distinction between the concept of justice and the political doctrine …
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A Constructionist Understanding of Social Contract Theory
SANDU, Antonio - In: Jurnalul de Studii Juridice 1-2 (2012) 3, pp. 315-346
The social contract is an act of establishing meaning. Power relations can be understood as semiotic relations of establishing an interpretative will. Natural state, original state in most theories of social contract, is not only a pre-politic one, but also pre-semiotic. Contractualist theories...
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Karl Marx’s Intellectual Roots in John Locke (English version)
ENGLE, Eric Allen - In: Postmodern Openings 7 (2011) September, pp. 29-37
Marx supposedly represents a radical break from liberal individualist property oriented thinking. In fact however, Marx integrates the best points of a variety of liberal individualists, notably Locke and Rousseau, but also to a lesser extent Aristotle and even Plato. Marx is an extension of,...
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Buchanan and the social contract : coordination failures and the atrophy of property rights
Marciano, Alain; Bertola, Giuseppe - 2024
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The logical foundations of constitutional democracy between legal positivism and natural law theory
Kliemt, Hartmut - In: Public Choice (2021), pp. 1-13
Rejecting all knowledge claims concerning right and wrong in matters practical James Buchanan concurred with legal … creation. Beyond correct creation Buchanan proposed as a quasi-natural law constraint that unanimity in the shadow of … is symptomatic for Buchanan's never-ending but ultimately futile efforts to incorporate Kantian ideals of interpersonal …
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The logical foundations of constitutional democracy between legal positivism and natural law theory
Kliemt, Hartmut - In: Public choice 195 (2023) 3/4, pp. 269-281
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Economics and ethics: a historical approach
Ciani Scarnicci, Manuela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Amartya Sen (1933-) is one of the greatest scholars who studied the relationship between ethics and economics and was held the Nobel Economics Prize thanks to this. At the awarding of the Nobel prize, while talking about his studies, the motive was: “...has been highly instrumental in...
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The Cyprus crisis in the mirror: the ‘small deposit tax’ as historical faux-pas
Fischer, Justina A.V. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Taxing small deposits used to be a taboo in European politics – but why? This contribution re-assesses the protection of small deposits from an angle that has not received much attention in the current debate: the politico-philosophical, ordo-liberal, and social-political perspectives, arguing...
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