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Public policy, rational hope and economic ideology: A plea for hopeful realism

It would be irresponsible if those who make public policy did not pay serious attention to expert knowledge. If experts advise that a proposed policy will fail, it would be irresponsible for policy makers to ignore their advice. Advocating the impossible would appear to be absurd. Does this mean policy makers must resign themselves to accepting whatever advice experts give them? Must it be irrational for policy makers to maintain hope that a proposed policy will work, although experts tell them it...

Eidlin Fred
Опубликовано:
13.04.2016 17:43:00

Can Socialism Learn from Its Mistakes? Hypotheses or Metaphysics

Disagreement about success and failure, and about learning and not learning from mistakes, far from being peculiar to debates about socialism, is endemic to all kinds of political debates. Debates about socialism have, however, been much complicated by the problem that it has never been clear whether socialism is to be regarded as a purely utopian ideal or, quite on the contrary, as an unavoidable necessity, or at least a feasible political program. Throughout most of history, until early in...

Eidlin Fred
Опубликовано:
06.12.2015 08:35:00

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