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Theologian John Courtney Murray was the primary motivator behind the Vatican II document, The Declaration on Religious Liberty. Murray and that document held that man had an inherent dignity that does not allow coercion in religious belief by public or private groups or institutions. Only...
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's book Theory and History possesses considerable untapped potential in this regard. The Preface's merits as an introductory …
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What is the relationship between central planning, pervasive shortages, and soft budget constraints under socialism? In this paper, we address this question by exploring the evolution of János Kornai’s work on the operation of real-world socialism. In doing so, our goal is to reframe...
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This paper addresses the question of whether the Austrian theory of interventionism helps us understand what growth … economists call decelerations or slowdowns. It is proposed that the theory of stagnation based on non-productive entrepreneurship … (Coyne, Sobel and Dove 2010) complements the theory of interventionism, and when they are combined, a theory of slowdowns is …
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Harding administration's fiscal policy. They also engage a caricatured version of Keynesian theory and policy, which ignores …
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What is the relationship between central planning, pervasive shortages, and soft budget constraints under socialism? In this paper, we address this question by exploring the evolution of János Kornai’s work on the operation of real-world socialism. In doing so, our goal is to reframe...
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The aim of this article is to investigate the relationship between the praxeology of L. von Mises and the theory of … action of Alfred Schütz. Because of the importance that Mises’ theory has had on economics it is interesting to highlight the … theory of the action is being more and more diffused in the social sciences and in the second place, because the importance …
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The ethical and legal thought of Thomas Aquinas and F. A. Hayek emerged out of distinct philosophical traditions. Aquinas, following the Aristotelian tradition, emphasized the inexact character of ethics and hence the mutability of law due to the contingency of particular circumstances. Hayek,...
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The present 77 page document is my set of notes used in a five-part reading group on Larry Siedentop's great book Inventing the Individual: The Origins of Western Liberalism. The document contains a link to the set of videos online
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