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Yearly Archives: 2023

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  • 5 Oct 2023
    Paul Moser

    Finding God in Moral Experience

    Inquirers about God eventually confront an issue about evidence for God: Is there any salient evidence available to them for God’s reality and goodness? If so, where is it to be found, and how is it to be found? Such questions deserve our careful attention, because their answers have significant consequences for human lives, individually […]

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  • 4 Oct 2023
    Janet Ward, Gavriel D. Rosenfeld

    Fascism in America: Past and Present

    Nearly one hundred years ago, on November 9th, 1923, Germany withstood the attempt of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi party to overthrow the German government in a violent coup. Just two years ago, on January 6th, 2021, the United States survived a similar attempt by domestic right-wing extremists to prevent the newly elected American President Joe Biden from […]

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  • 4 Oct 2023
    Hao Jiang (Primary Author), Pietro Sirena

    Ideology, Legal Transplants and Moral Foundation, A Scholarly Account of the Chinese Civil Code

    The passage of the Chinese Civil Code in 2021 was a monumental event both for China and the international community. Yet, it is a daunting task to present a scientific account of the Code to a readership in both worlds. It is difficult for private law experts in the West to truly understand Chinese law […]

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  • 4 Oct 2023
    Finn Tarp, Ines A. Ferreira

    How institutions matter in Mozambique

    Launched in 2015 and completed in 2022, the Institutional Diagnostic Project aimed at identifying institutional factors that affect development, reforms that may help address existing institutional constraints, and factors that can preclude or enable these reforms. Using the motto ‘institutions matter’ as a starting point, the project sought to establish how institutions matter and to […]

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  • 4 Oct 2023
    Deborah Barsky

    Human Prehistory

    I wrote Human Prehistory: Exploring the Past to Understand the Future, to provide students with a complete and easily understandable overview of the most important stages of human anatomical, behavioral and cultural evolution. Understanding the origin story of humanity offers us a new perspective on the present-day challenges facing our species, and I aim with […]

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  • 3 Oct 2023
    Hui Jing

    The Governance of Chinese Charitable Trusts

    In 2001, Chinese legislators introduced public welfare trusts to encourage the public to participate in charitable endeavours, drawing on the experiences of Japan and South Korea. However, despite being in existence for twenty years, the success rate of public welfare trusts in China has been low, with only twenty trusts being established. To address this […]

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  • 3 Oct 2023
    Peter Skott

    Structuralist and behavioral macroeconomics

    The research program that has dominated macroeconomic theory since the 1980s achieved its hegemony mainly because of its methodological claims of having ‘solid microeconomic foundations’. The core models of new Keynesian macroeconomics are based on intertemporal optimization by representative households, a ‘forward looking’ Phillips curve with nominal price stickiness and staggered priced setting, and rational […]

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  • 3 Oct 2023
    Daniela Alaattinoğlu

    What harms get recognised and redressed by states, and what harms do not?

    The Nordic welfare states have a modern history marked by involuntary sterilisation and castration. Such practices have targeted different kinds of marginalised groups and people, whose sexuality and reproduction were considered inappropriate: poor women, exhausted mothers, people with disabilities, Romani people, sexual offenders, homosexual men and trans people. In light of the Nordic states’ embrace […]

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