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• Where is Poverty in the National Agenda?

  

  Our elected officials are charged to do their best to create legislation and policies that work best to secure the important life interests of all citizens.... Read more

  Posted on 27 June 2012 SOCIETY

• Ostrom's Central Idea

  

  Elinor Ostrom was a very important contributor to the theory of public rationality and the institutions that underlie cooperation, and she was most deserving... Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2012 SOCIETY

• Rawls on a Property-owning Democracy

  

  John Rawls's critique of capitalism was deeper than has been commonly recognized -- this is a central thrust of quite a bit of important recent work on Rawls's... Read more

  Posted on 10 June 2012 SOCIETY

• Organizations and the Chicago School

  

  Andrew Abbott is a fascinating sociologist, and he is an expert on the Chicago School. His book Department and Discipline: Chicago Sociology at One Hundred... Read more

  Posted on 10 June 2012 SOCIETY

• Mark Blaug, John Rawls, and the History of Political Economy

  In an earlier post I spent some time trying to determine what the major sources were of Rawls's knowledge of the history of classical political economy. Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2012 SOCIETY

• Power Within Organizations

  Sociologists have been thinking about organizations in a careful, empirical way for decades. Here is a volume edited by Mayer Zald that results from a 1969... Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2012 SOCIETY