Hobbes, Constant, and Berlin on Liberty

On Moral Liberty

The Freeman Ideas on Liberty

O n average, Federal Reserve chairmen come and go at about the same rate as U.S. presidents. Dating from the creation of this country's central bank (1913), we have seen sixteen presidents (Wilson to Bush) and fourteen Federal Reserve Chairmen (Hamlin to Bernanke). The Fed Chairmanship, however, has seen more variation in years of service—Franklin D. Roosevelt notwithstanding. Spanning four pre...

Hobbes on natural philosophy as "True Physics" and mixed mathematics.

In this paper, I offer an alternative account of the relationship of Hobbesian geometry to natural philosophy by arguing that mixed mathematics provided Hobbes with a model for thinking about it. In mixed mathematics, one may borrow causal principles from one science and use them in another science without there being a deductive relationship between those two sciences. Natural philosophy for H...

Hobbes' Calculus of Words

of a paper for the Third International Conference on Computational Linguistics to be held in Sanga Sgby I 4 September 1969 .

Hobbes to Rousseau: Inequality, Institutions, and Development

Hobbes to Rousseau: Inequality, Institutions, and Development This paper studies the endogenous evolution of economic and political institutions and the interdependencies with the process of economic development. Favorable economic institutions in form of a social contract that ensures a state of law and the absence of societal conflict are not assumed exogenously under certain political system...