Liberty versus Common Good

Liberty and Order: Civil Government and the Common Good in Eighteenth-Century England

Recent Foucaultian work on ‘governmentality’ posits a distinction between two ‘rationalities’ of government: ‘police’ and ‘liberalism’. The former is closely associated with the idea of order, produced through constant and detailed intervention in public life. The latter is associated with freedom and the insulation of the social and economic spheres from (particularly political) interference. ...

Cooperation and the common good.

In this paper, we draw the attention of biologists to a result from the economic literature, which suggests that when individuals are engaged in a communal activity of benefit to all, selection may favour cooperative sharing of resources even among non-relatives. Provided that group members all invest some resources in the public good, they should refrain from conflict over the division of thes...

Good for Liberty, Bad for Security? Global Civil Society and the Securitization of the Internet

God Psychiatry Versus Good Psychiatry

Since psychiatry often requires an intimate, informal dialogue between patient and doctor, can psychiatrists afford to retain the remote, omnipotent image which they have inherited?

Trade liberalization and welfare: Differentiated-good versus homogeneous-good markets

Takatsuka, Hajime, and Zeng, Dao-Zhi—Trade liberalization and welfare: Differentiated-good versus homogeneous-good markets In this paper, we examine the effects of liberalization on industrial location and national welfare in a framework of new economic geography. Specifically, we explicitly incorporate arbitrary trade costs in both differentiated-good and homogeneous-good sectors into a two-co...