'in defence of liberty'?

Liberty in the Age of Terror: A Defence of Civil Liberties and Enlightenment Values by A.C. Grayling

The western world of Liberty and Democracy is in grave danger according to Professor Grayling. Not only are we threatened from the outside by terrorism, but within us there is an even greater threat: the self-harm inflicted in response to the real and perceived threats of terrorism. The civil liberties that are the foundational principles of the Western democracies have been in trouble ever sin...

Liberty and Equality in Conflict

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...