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    Title: Laws and Norms  Author(s): BENABOU, Roland; TIROLE, Jean Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: This paper analyzes how private decisions and public policies are shaped by personal and societal preferences ("values"), material or other explicit incentives ("laws") and social sanctions or rewards ("norms"). It first ...
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    Title: The Lure of Authority  Author(s): FEHR, Ernst Date: 2010-01-01 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS; Abstract: Power and authority permeate political, social and economic life but still little is known empirically about the origins and consequences of authority. In this paper we tackle this question experimentally by implementing ...
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    Title: Macroeconomic Policy, Evolution, and Self-Confirming Equilibrium  Author(s): SARGENT, Thomas J. Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: This paper uses policy disputes about centuries of experience with commodity money systems and US monetary policy in the 1970s and 1980s to illustrate macroeconomists' enduring struggles with Hume's induction problem and ...
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    Title: "My brain made me do it" (when neuroscientists think they can do philosophy)  Author(s): DENNETT, Daniel C. Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: Some philosophers and neuroscientists have recently been saying that science shows that we don't have free will, but it turns out that this claim-which would be bad news if true-is due to misrepresentation and misinterpretation. ...
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    Title: Natural Law and Personhood: Samuel Pufendorf on Social Explanation  Author(s): HAAKONSSEN, Knud Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: Today the idea of natural law is generally considered a subject in ethics, politics and jurisprudence and concerned with the status of basic norms. During the last one and a half centuries natural law has come to be seen ...
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    Title: “NOT EXCEPTING THE IROQUOIS THEMSELVES...” Machiavelli, Pufendorf and the Prehistory of International Law  Author(s): KOSKENNIEMI, Martti Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MW LS
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    Title: Ordering Pluralism  Author(s): DELMAS-MARTY, Mireille Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: In the traditional legal culture, the expression of “ordering pluralism” is rather unusual. Pluralism implies differences, dispersion and fragmentation, whereas “legal order” leads us to think in terms of a unified structure. ...
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    Title: Political Institutions and Financial Development: Evidence from New World Economies  Author(s): HABER, Stephen Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MW LS Abstract: There is a consensus among economists that the development of banking systems plays a causal role in economic growth. What remains unresolved is why some countries have large banking systems that allocate credit broadly, ...
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    Title: Punishment, (Neo)Liberalism and Social Democracy  Author(s): LACEY, Nicola Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: In this lecture, I address recent attempts to understand the relevance of political forces and institutions in shaping the practice and the social meaning of punishment. I focus on one argument about the relevance of the ...
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    Title: Rethinking Equality in an Age of Inequality  Author(s): ROSANVALLON, Pierre Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: We live in a time of counter-revolution. Since the 1980s, reversing a century-old trend towards fewer inequalities, the richest among us have kept accumulating revenues and possessions. The economic and social roots of ...
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    Title: The return from the return to narrative  Author(s): DE VRIES, Jan Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: Social scientific history in its various forms developed rapidly and enjoyed great influence in the 1960s and 70s. Around 1980 it was quickly and, in the United States decisively, eclipsed. An influential article predicting ...
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    Title: Rights of Non-humans? Electronic Agents and Animals as New Actors in Politics and Law  Author(s): TEUBNER, Gunther Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MW LS Abstract: Lecture Delivered January 17th 2007. Personification of non-humans is best understood as a strategy of dealing with the uncertainty about the identity of the other, which moves the attribution scheme from causation ...
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    Title: The Rise of Global Legalism  Author(s): POSNER, Eric A Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MW LS Abstract: Global legalism is the view that world government is not a practicable approach to global collective action problems but that these problems are nonetheless susceptible to legal solutions. This position is paradoxical: ...
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    Title: Self-Government in Our Times  Author(s): PRZEWORSKI, Adam Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MW LS Abstract: The eighteenth century ideal of self-government of the people was based on an assumption that renders it incoherent and unrealistic, namely, that interests and values are sufficiently harmonious that each individual needs ...
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    Title: Simulacrum and Re-enactments: the experience of Pompeii in the nineteeth century  Author(s): BEARD, Mary Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Technical Report Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: This lecture traces the changing experience of visiting Pompeii through the nineteenth century. It argues against the standard idea that there was a shift over the century from a Romantic view of the site to a more ...
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    Title: Social Science and the Causes of Happiness and Misery  Author(s): LAYARD, Richard Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS
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    Title: Social Science as a Vocation - Are Max Weber’s Warnings Still Valid?  Author(s): SCHARPF, Fritz W. Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Article Series/Report no.: EUI MW LS Abstract: Inaugural Lecture Delivered October 4th 2006
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    Title: The Spectre of Islamism: A Historian’s Reading  Author(s): VALENSI, Lucette Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MW LS
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    Title: The Spirit of Capitalism: the Role of Executive Compensation in the Financial Crisis  Author(s): COOLEY, Thomas F. Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: When economic disasters occur it is common to look to the managers of the economy and question the decisions they made and the incentives that drove their decisions. In the financial crisis of 2007-2009 compensation was ...
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    Title: The strange non-death of multiculturalism  Author(s): MODOOD, Tariq Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: One of the strange features of the ‘Multiculturalism is dead’ discourses is that they now define ‘multiculturalism’. It is now commonplace for even neutral commentators to define multiculturalism as a view which emphasises ...