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Axelrod: Evolutionist Strategies-stable (Workshop on April 11, 2008)

Intro: You can get the Evolutionist-Stable Strategy (ESS) in the prisoner's dilemma (PD) played repeatedly in a population? Axelrod says that Yes, if we introduce a strategy of action to those who does not sanction failure (breaking the rules/non-cooperation). Boyd and Lorberbaum il contradict and say that tit for tat strategy (the answer with the

Church and politics (Workshop March 28, 2008)

Intro: The decision taken at the last meeting of the Synod of the Orthodox Church allows priests to run at public functions in local councils. To the extent that local councils are structures of the State, what implications does the plus formal representation of the interests of the Church in these structures? Who would have

The origin of human society (Workshop March 21, 2008)

Intro: The text is from the ' Origins of Virtue ' by Matt Ridley, Chapter 9, ' The Source of War '. The previous chapters (2-8) in the book describe at length the same kinda arguments from the text of Tullock, presented by Ike two weeks ago. This chapter focuses on less pleasant consequences of

Ludwig von Mises: minimum wage (Workshop March 14, 2008)

Intro: Text from Mises ' Human Action shows the harmful effects of the increase for the State minimum wage, a theme dear to labor unions. This increase in unemployment produces and syndicates actions appeals to violence and violate the right to property. Increasing the minimum wage is an artificial price rise (above market price) of

Gordon Tullock: Edge of the jungle (Workshop 7 March 2008)

Intro: His research program public choice explain and cooperative behavior, and coercive behaviour based on the selfish interest of individuals (individual or ' rationalitatii '). The text of the call and the Darwinian theory. Describes some biological mechanisms Tullock and impersonal, which generates social order/cooperative behavior and inducing shows why the one powerful interest will

Jan Winiecki: interaction of formal and informal institutions in transition explanation (Workshop 29 February 2008)

Intro: Article approaches from a perspective of institutional transition from post-Communist, catching up by the poor countries and to achieve the level of development of the countries. The author highlights the fact that resources have a secondary importance in explaining the transition, important institutional structure that encourages or discourages economic development. Different results are attributed

What prevents the influence of libertarian ideas? (Workshop on February 22, 2008)

Intro: Keynes wrote that ideas, be accurate either wrong, are more powerful than is commonly believed. People ' practices ', which I think is exempt from any intellectual influences are usually the slaves of any defunct economist. People exaggerate, he thinks, the power or influence of private interests over social changes, conjectural and it minimises

What are social facts and where they appear? (Workshop on February 15, 2008)

Intro: I sat a collage of texts as a basis for the Workshop: The first text is a brief excerpt from Human Action by Ludwig von Mises in which is described the anti-crisis classical sociological position-the idea that there is no social fact irreducible to the wishes of individuals; the company is just an Association

Representativity. Aggregation of individual preferences into collective action (Workshop on February 8, 2008)

Intro: Looks like an original Constitution whereby a group of individuals that similar freedom to manage and pstreze, but also to find a method of aggregating preferences into a single effective collective action in a sense in which the methods so far including current Congressional Democrats aren't? What method of aggregation can represent as faithfully

W. Buckley: Conservative Education (Workshop February 1, 2008)

Intro: What kind of education can serve a culture of freedom? What links exist between the content of education and institutional system through which it provides the service? The thesis is that the conservative freedom front proclaimed socialist tradition of (what a rant of zero social engineering) is impossible. It's the backdrop of sustained argument