Tag Archives: social and political philosophy

Big! We really need to be talking about this and examining assumptions and presuppositions that act as hidden assumptions. Yanis is a systems thinker. The Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, Oxford University, kindly invited me to deliver the 2019 Taylor Lecture on 12th February 2019. I chose the topic of Realistic Utopias versus Dystopic Realities – my aim being to highlight the manner in which really-existing capitalism is marketed as a utopian science fiction that has nothing to...

That is the new, excellent, and detailed book by Eric Schliesser, a political scientist at Amsterdam. I would say that Schliesser is a very learned “left Smithian,” and that you should take the subtitle very very seriously. Should be aware of. Schliesser contradicts the neoclassical and Samuelson views of Smith. Marginal Revolution *Adam Smith: Systematic Philosopher and Public Thinker * Tyler Cowen | Holbert C. Harris Chair of Economics at George Mason University and serves as...