The latest issue/s of the Center’s weekly, The Great Ideas Online (No. 998), concluded the discussion of The Capitalist Manifesto (1958), by Louis O. Kelso and Mortimer J. Adler.
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The latest issue of the Center’s weekly, The Great Ideas Online (No. 978), begins a serialization of The Capitalist Manifesto (1958) by Louis Kelso and Mortimer Adler.
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Anthony B. Atkinson on "Practical Policies for Reducing Inequality" at Foreign Affairs
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Alberto Alesina, Edward Glaeser and Bruce Sacerdote at The Brooking Institution
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Vladimir Gimpelson and Daniel Treisman at the National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
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Michael Ross at the American Journal of Political Science
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Larry M. Bartels on "Inequality and Public Policy in the American Mind", published in Perspectives on Politics, Vol. 3, No. 1 (Mar., 2005), pp. 15-31.
(via Adam Berinsky)
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Adam Bonica, Nolan McCarty, Keith T. Poole, and Howard Rosenthal at the Journal of Economic Perspectives.
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Presentation on this book by Alberto Alesina and Edward L. Glaeser at the World Bank.
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James J. Heckman at Science
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National Geographic adaptation of Jared Diamond's book:
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies is a 1997 transdisciplinary nonfiction book by Jared Diamond, professor of geography and physiology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). In 1998, it won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction and the Aventis Prize for Best Science Book. A documentary based on the book, and produced by the National Geographic Society, was broadcast on PBS in July 2005.
The book attempts to explain why Eurasian civilizations (including North Africa) have survived and conquered others, while arguing against the idea that Eurasian hegemony is due to any form of Eurasian intellectual, moral, or inherent genetic superiority. Diamond argues that the gaps in power and technology between human societies originate in environmental differences, which are amplified by various positive feedback loops. When cultural or genetic differences have favored Eurasians (for example, written language or the development among Eurasians of resistance to endemic diseases), he asserts that these advantages occurred because of the influence of geography on societies and cultures, and were not inherent in the Eurasian genomes.
Part 1 of 3 at YouTube;
Part 2 of 3 at YouTube;
Part 3 of 3 at YouTube.
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Carles Boix and Frances Rosenbuth at American Political Science Review
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Paper presented by Frederick Solt at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, April 15-18, 2004.
Lisa R. Anderson, Jennifer M. Mellor, and Jeffrey Milyo at The Journal of Socio-Economics
Income Inequality, by Paul Graham
A top venture capitalist thinks startups are causing inequality. He’s wrong. By Ezra Klein
A Reply to Ezra Klein, by Paul Graham
Seahawks lineman Russell Okung responds to Paul Graham’s essay on economic inequality and startups, by Russell Okung
A Reply to Russell Okung, by Paul Graham
Israel M. Kirzner on 'The Historical Background of the Misesian Perspective' at The Harvard Review of Philophy.
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The third in a series on "Six big ideas" in economics at The Economist.
"His [Jean-Baptiste Say's] greatest work was A Treatise on Political Economy [1803], a graceful exposition (and extension) of [Adam] Smith’s economic ideas. In Say’s time, as nowadays, the world economy combined strong technological progress with fitful demand, spurts of innovation with bouts of austerity.The books is available in several formats at the Online Library of Liberty.
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"How then did Say explain the woes of his age, the stuffed warehouses, clogged ports and choked markets? He understood that an economy might oversupply some commodities, if not all. That could cause severe, if temporary, distress to anyone involved in the hypertrophied industries. But he argued that for every good that is too abundant, there must be another that is too scarce. The labour, capital and other resources devoted to oversupplying one market must have been denied to another more valuable channel of industry, leaving it under-resourced."
The second in a series on "Six big ideas" in economics at The Economist.
"As far back as Adam Smith in the 18th century, economists had noted that production depended not just on equipment or land but also on peoples’ abilities. But before the 1950s, when Becker first examined links between education and incomes, little thought was given to how such abilities fit with economic theory or public policy.
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"Doctoral degree in hand, Becker, then in his mid-20s, was hired by the National Bureau of Economic Research to work on a project calculating returns on schooling. What seemed a simple question led him to realise that no one had yet fleshed out the concept of human capital. In subsequent years he developed it into a full-fledged theory that could be applied to any number of questions and, soon enough, to issues previously seen as outside the realm of economics, from marriage to fertility."
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Fourth Annual Aquinas Leadership International World Congress: "Augustine, Aquinas, and the Apologetics of the New Reformation(s)"
Chair, A. William McVey, Adler-Aquinas Institute
Streamed live on July 15, 2017
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Previous session ALI 2017 Plenary Session 10: Guardini: From Mysticism & Apologetics to Pope Francis & Technocratic Paradigms
Update: Following session ALI 2017 Plenary Session 12: Remembering John Deely as Colleague & Philosophical Reformer
The first in a series on "Six big ideas" in economics at The Economist
"Throwing light on the magic of market co-ordination was a mainstay of the 'classical' economics of the late-18th and 19th centuries. Then, in 1937, a paper published by Ronald Coase, a British economist, pointed out a glaring omission. The standard model of economics did not fit with what goes on within companies. When an employee switches from one division to another, for instance, he does not do so in response to higher wages, but because he is ordered to. The question posed by Coase was profound, if awkward for economics: why are some activities directed by market forces and others by firms?That paper, "The Nature of the Firm", was published at Economica.
"His answer was that firms are a response to the high cost of using markets. It is often cheaper to direct tasks by fiat than to negotiate and enforce separate contracts for every transaction. Such 'exchange costs' are low in markets for standardised goods, wrote Coase. A well-defined task can easily be put out to the market, where a contractor is paid a fixed sum for doing it. The firm comes into its own when simple contracts of this kind will not suffice. Instead, an employee agrees to follow varied and changing instructions, up to agreed limits, for a fixed salary."
He later wrote "The Problem of Social Cost", which was published at the Journal of Law and Economics. It is the most-cited law review article of all time, according to this essay by Fred R. Shapiro and Michelle Pearse at the Michigan Law Review.
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