Search Results - subject:"LIBERALISM"

Epistemic problems in Hayek's defence of free markets

Benson, Jonathan - In: Economics and philosophy 41 (2025) 1, pp. 1-23

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What should a liberal economist (not) do? : Sen-Sugden debate on welfare economics

Erasmo, Valentina; Santori, Paolo - In: Cambridge journal of economics 49 (2025) 4, pp. 849-872

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Capitalism, democracy, and Adam Smith

Thrasher, John - In: Journal of contextual economics : Schmollers Jahrbuch 143 (2023) 1/4, pp. 157-172

How can we better understand the relationship between capitalism and democracy today? This article challenges the prevailing "independence thesis" that views capitalism and democracy as separate and often antagonistic systems. By revisiting Adam Smith's integrationist approach to political...

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An Anselmian case against libertarian paternalism

Meulders, Xavier - In: Journal of economics, theology and religion : JETR 5 (2025) 1, pp. 157-171

Libertarian paternalism is "the set of interventions aimed at overcoming the unavoidable cognitive biases and decisional inadequacies of an individual by exploiting them in such a way as to influence her decisions (in an easily reversible manner) towards choices that she herself would make if...

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Free to fail? : paternalistic preferences in the United States

Bartling, Björn; Cappelen, Alexander W.; Hermes, Henning; … - 2025 - Revised version, May 2025

This paper examines paternalistic preferences in large-scale experiments in the U.S. Participants decide whether to intervene to prevent a stakeholder, mistaken about their options, to make a choice that is misaligned with their preferences. We find that the willingness to intervene strongly...

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Adam Smith's hopes for a liberal America

Loughran, Michaela; Klein, Daniel B. - In: Economic affairs : journal of the Institute of Economic … 45 (2025) 2, pp. 203-223

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"Liberal" as a political adjective (in English), 1769 -1824

Klein, Daniel B. - In: Journal of contextual economics : Schmollers Jahrbuch 143 (2023) 1/4, pp. 239-261

1769 and was sustained straight up to when the political nouns liberalism and liberal start up in the 1820s. The data from …

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Foucault on Adam Smith's liberalism

Salinas, Alejandra M. - In: Journal of contextual economics : Schmollers Jahrbuch 143 (2023) 1/4, pp. 263-281

's liberalism. We present Foucault's lectures that deal with Smith's ideas and evaluate the strengths and tensions in his analysis. …

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Do we have too much choice?

Schmidt, Andreas T. - In: Economics and philosophy 41 (2025) 3, pp. 484-511

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Great Economists and the Evolution of Economic Liberalism : How Philosophy Has Helped Shape Economics

Haan, Peter de - 2025

1. Introduction -- 2. Economic and political developments -- 3. Liberalism -- 4. Karl Polanyi‘s critique of market … liberalism -- 5. Keynes and Hayek - both liberals but economic adversaries -- 6. Friedman and Samuelson at odds on Keynes -- 7 … philosophy, in particular how liberalism has helped define economics since the days of Adam Smith. The entire history of …

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