Category: Economics
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Rawls at 100 | Boston Review
Rawls’ fairness, aka good ethics, underpins everything, and every challenge we see can be traced to bad ethics. (See also the Categorical Imperative.) http://bostonreview.net/reading-lists-philosophy-religion/joshua-cohen-boston-review-rawls-100
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RAND: Fixing Inequality of Opportunity
Economic inequality has become a topic of political discussion while research has fueled concerns about how income inequality drives inequality of opportunity. Commonsense approaches such as improvements in education and access to quality health care have been shown to provide young people with better opportunities. View article…<http://www.rand.org/blog/2016/07/fixing-inequality-of-opportunity.html>
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Sure, but What’s the Spend-Out?
I’m a fan of listening to lectures in my car, so recently I listened to Wake Forest Professor Robert Whaples’ lectures on Modern Economic Issues from the Teaching Company. Good stuff and I recommend the lectures to anyone wanting to get a great perspective on a number of everyday issues.…
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