Academic Liberty

Liberty, Equality, Religiosity1

In this paper we study the role of religiosity in political choices such as redistribution and individual liberties. To a standard model with consumption and effort, we add a third good: civil liberties with a cap established by law. More liberties, like divorce, abortion, gender parity, or gay marriage, may be considered good by the secular and detrimental by the religious individuals. With st...

Liberty, Games and Contracts

Edited by British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Liberty, games and contracts: Narveson and the defence of libertarianism 1.Narveson, Jan, 19362. Libertarianism 3. Contractarianism (Ethics) 1.Murray, Malcolm 320.5'12 MALCOLM MURRAY University of Prince Edward Island, Canada Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Liberty, games, and contracts: Jan Narveson and the defence of...

Commentary: Liberty, fraternity, equality.

relationship between income inequality and health has been independently discovered several times by people who appeared not to know of each other's work. 1,2 When I first published on the subject 3 I too was unaware of Rodgers' paper 4 until George Davey Smith pointed it out to me. Rodgers introduced an income distribution term into his regressions simply to take account of the well-known curv...

Liberty and Terror

On Moral Liberty