Famine, Affluence, and Morality

The debate on human cloning and legislative morality: notes on eugenics for an age of affluence.

My forty-five years of experience as a legislative draftsman has convinced me that an ethical or moral position will either motivate or be mentioned in legislation if such a position will help to pass the law or help to get the legislator elected. For example, housing legislation, enacted to create more public housing for working people who cannot afford to buy or rent housing produced by the m...

Understanding and Preventing Famine and Famine Mortality

Morality, Rationality and Impartiality

Morality as somehow involving rationality and impartiality received classic expression in philosophy of Kant who frankly speaks of “rational and impartial spectator” in contemplating the universal law. The overall aim of this paper is to show (1) that the idea of morality implies rationality and this will be reached at in refuting the moral scepticism; but (2) it does not necessarily indicates ...

Affluence & Aging

Famine Disease and Famine Mortality: Lessons from Ireland, 1845-1850

10740 words This is an abbreviated version of a paper given at a conference on famine demography at Les Treilles, France, 25-30 May 1999. The longer version is available as Mokyr and Ó Gráda, 1999. We are grateful to co-participants for their comments.