Tag: government

• Markets Don't Crowd Out Morals

  3 days ago

  Will Wilkinson in The Moral Sciences Club

  The Boston Review is hosting a forum centered the claim of Michael Sandel,  a Harvard political theorist, that "markets crowd out morals." Sandel's essay is well worth reading. He clearly gives voice to a number of common intuitions about markets that  too often remain inarticulate. Mostly, though ... Read More

• Big Government Is Bad for Democracy

  6 months ago

  Will Wilkinson in The Moral Sciences Club

  Notre Dame philosopher Gary Gutting examines the extent to which the American system of government is democratic. Drawing on Plato's five kinds of government--aristocracy, timarchy, oligarchy, democracy, and tyranny (we really can't do better than this?)--Gutting concludes America is is a mix of ... Read More