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Quadratics: a staple of high school algebra. From factoring to the quadratic formula, quadratics can span multiple units. Some see quadratics as the building blocks of higher level math. Others ask why we teach it. So let’s talk about quadratics! What is good, bad, or ugly about quadratics? Why are the valued so highly? And most importantly: Should We Cut Quadratics?

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What is the role of government? Should it exist to provide safety and security for its citizens or to maintain order because humans are fundamentally selfish? Is an equitable society possible? What would such a society look like? Episode 73 is the first of a mini-series on social justice in which we consider the social contract that exists between a state and its people according to the divergent views of four political philosophers.

We Explore
The United States Declaration of Independence
The natural state and natural law
Social Contract Theory according to Hobbes and Leviathan
Locke's second treatise of government
The Social Contract according to Rousseau
A theory of justice by Rawls

Show Notes

Episode 45 - Moral relativism
Leviathan – Thomas Hobbes
Two Treatises of Government – John Locke
The Social Contract – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Rosseau and Locke on Property and the State – Matt Schrage
A Theory of Justice – John Rawls

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Marc Fleurbaey is the Research Director of the National Center for Scientific Research at the Paris School of Economics. He is the author of Fairness, Responsibility, and Welfare (2008), a co-author of Beyond GDP (with Didier Blanchet, 2013), A Theory of Fairness and Social Welfare (with François Maniquet, 2011), and the coeditor of several books, including Justice, Political Liberalism, and Utilitarianism: Themes from Harsanyi and Rawls (with Maurice Salles and John Weymark, 2008) and the Oxford Handbook of Well-Being and Public Policy (with Matthew Adler, 2016). His research on normative and public economics and theories of distributive justice has focused in particular on the analysis of equality of opportunity, risk, redistributive taxation, climate policy, and on seeking solutions to famous impossibilities of social choice theory.   

Our student quote is read by Rita Halabi. 

Resources

1. Marc Fleurbaey’s bio and website
2. Daniel Shaviro’s blog post about Pratt’s recent visit to the NYU Tax Policy Colloquium
3. Do You Believe in Democracy or in Equality — or Both?
4. Beyond GDP: The Quest for a Measure of Social Welfare
5. To learn more about Zarin, read Daniel Shaviro, “The Man Who Lost Too Much: Zarin v. Commissioner and the Measurement of Taxable Consumption”, 45 Tax L. Rev. 215 (1990)
6. The student quote comes from Peracchi v. Commissioner, 143 F.3d 487 (9th Cir. 1998).

En esta edición de Diálogos Igualitarios, Jorge Barías conversa con Javiera Zúñiga, candidata a presidenta de Evopoli quien nos contó sobre su visión política y entrega detalles sobre su candidatura en una lista compuesta 100% por mujeres. 

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Corey and Steve interview Leif Wenar, Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University and author of Blood Oil. They begin with memories of Leif and Corey’s mutual friend David Foster Wallace and end with a discussion of John Rawls and Robert Nozick (Wenar’s thesis advisor at Harvard, and a friend of Steve’s). Corey asks whether Leif shares his view that analytic philosophy had become too divorced from wider intellectual life. Leif explains his effort to re-engage philosophy in the big issues of our day as Hobbes, Rousseau, Locke, Mill and Marx were in theirs. He details how a trip to Nigeria gave him insight into the real problems facing real people in oil-rich countries. Leif explains how the legal concept of “efficiency” led to the resource curse and argues that we should refuse to buy oil from countries that are not minimally accountable to their people. Steve notes that some may find this approach too idealistic and not in the US interest. Leif suggests that what philosophers can contribute is the ability to see the big synthetic picture in a complex world.

Resources

• Transcript
• Leif Wenar (Bio)
• Blood Oil: Tyrants, Violence, and the Rules That Run the World
• John Rawls – Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Peter Nozick – Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Eine Methode, moralische Urteile zu rechtfertigen, besteht im sogenannten Überlegungsgleichgewicht. Was genau ist darunter zu verstehen? Welche Elemente werden ins Gleichgewicht gebracht? Und was leistet diese Methode wirklich? Ein Gespräch mit Georg Brun, wissenschaftlicher Mittarbeiter an der ETH und der UZH.