We invite you at CADI, on Friday, 20th May 2011 at 1800 to take part in a discussion concerning the Hayekian theory of social norms evolution. “Hayek’s theory of the emergence of systems of rules of behavior has attracted a fairly large amount of attention in the last two decades, and it has usually been
We invite you at CADI, on Friday, 6thMay 2011 at 1800 to take part in a discussion regarding polycentricity, starting from the article written by Dragoș Aligica and Vlad Tarko. The complex structure of the modern societies results from the coexistence of multiple decision centres, with different interests, perspectives and values, which act in a
We invite you at CADI, on Friday, 29th April 2011 at 1800 to take part in a discussion regarding the causes of the Middle East revolutions, starting from Jack Goldstons’s text that explores the link between the population growth and political systems’ revolutionary transformations. “Systems of patronage, justice, and governance maybe fair or unfair, they
We invite you at CADI, on Friday, 15th April at 1800 to take part in a discussion regarding the rural development and autonomous local communities model, starting from chapter from Horia Terpe’s PhD thesis. Introduction From an economic, social and cultural point of view, Romania’s rural area is in an undeveloped state. There are multiple
We invite you at CADI on Friday, 8th April 2011 at 1800 to take part in a discussion regarding the similarity between Hayek’s theories about economy and law, starting from Stringham&Zywicki’s recent article. “Hayek famously described the competitive process of the market as a “discovery process.” In writing about law, Hayek coincidentally referred to the
We invite you at CADI on Friday, 1stApril 2011 at 1800 to take part in a discussion regarding the concept of freedom. “These different concepts of freedom outline a complex conceptual view of the problem, view defined by more than one coordinate, and the position of a person regarding the occasional trade-offs between the concepts
We invite you at CADI, on Friday, 18th February 2011 at 1800 to take part in a discussion concerning physician assisted suicide. “When the physicians offer to patients the means of committing suicide, they can have more reasons than the death of the patients: they may intend to decrease the patients’ anxiety concerning the possibility
We invite you at CADI on Friday, 11th February at 1800 to take part in a discussion concerning globalization, middle class and democracy. In the transition process from pre-industrial societies to the industrial/capitalist one, we can observe, initially, a social polarisation phenomenon that is increasing and it reaches a maximum point, and, afterwards, we observe
We invite you at CADI on Friday, 4th February at 1800 to take part in a discussion about objectivism, starting from a Ayn Rand’s text. “Ethics is not a mystic fantasy—nor a social convention—nor a dispensable, subjective luxury, to be switched or discarded in any emergency. Ethics is an objective, metaphysical necessity of man’s survival—not
We invite you at CADI, Friday, 28th January at 1800 to take part in a discussion concerning secrecy and transparency, starting from American professor Dennis F. Thompson’s article “Democratic Secrecy”. “The conflict is not primarily between secrecy and democracy but arises within the idea of the democratic process itself. Some of the best reasons for
