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Jan 8, 2025 | 
mercatus.org | Mikayla Novak
Mikayla Novak chats with Giandomenica Becchio on her latest book, The Doctrine of the Separate Spheres in Political Economy and Economics: Gender Equality and Classical Liberalism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024). Together they discuss Becchio’s background and inspiration, the separated roles of men and women in the public and private spheres, and key thinkers in classical liberalism that studied feminist economics.
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Jul 22, 2024 | 
mercatus.org | Mikayla Novak
Entangled political economy views societal phenomena as featuring substantial interaction between economic and political entities, but questions have been raised about the conceptual properties of entanglement. The political economist Randall Holcombe has raised questions concerning the economic influences affecting uneven patterns of entanglement between entities.
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Jun 26, 2024 | 
mercatus.org | Mikayla Novak
This is the second episode of a three-part miniseries on entangled political economy (EPE), hosted by Mikayla Novak. Entangled political economy is a sub-discipline of political economy that explicitly views individuals and the private and public sectors as being intertwined in overlapping exchange relationships along competitive and collaborative dimensions.
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May 29, 2024 | 
mercatus.org | Mikayla Novak |Richard E. Wagner |Peter Boettke |Donald Boudreaux
Richard E. Wagner is the Hobart R. Harris Professor of Economics at George Mason University as well as a distinguished senior fellow with the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Virginia in 1966.
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May 29, 2024 | 
mercatus.org | Mikayla Novak
This is the first episode of a three-part miniseries on entangled political economy (EPE), hosted by Mikayla Novak. Entangled political economy is a sub-discipline of political economy that explicitly views individuals and the private and public sectors as being intertwined in overlapping exchange relationships along competitive and collaborative dimensions. On this episode, Mikayla Novak interviews Richard Wagner on entangled political economy.
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May 23, 2024 | 
mercatus.org | Mikayla Novak
Recent studies have outlined models of socio-political change, albeit primarily based on economic foundations. These studies suggest that citizens invest economic resources supporting their preferred “utopian” state of the world, with dynamics interpreted as a coevolutionary process between competing utopic visions. The diffusion of various utopian ideas is determined by the economic contributions of individuals, as they seek to persuade others about their specific ideational preferences.
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Feb 7, 2024 | 
mercatus.org | Mikayla Novak |Seth Kaplan
Mikayla Novak interviews author Seth Kaplan on his latest book, Fragile Neighborhoods: Repairing American Society, One Zip Code at a Time. In this book, he addresses the decline in American neighborhoods characterized by rising crime, school violence, family disintegration, addiction, alienation, and despair. Kaplan applies his insights to the American context, emphasizing the importance of relationships and social dynamics in building healthy societies.
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Dec 1, 2023 | 
mercatus.org | Mikayla Novak
A distinguishing feature of Steven Horwitz's career was his emphasis upon the emancipatory character of economic liberalism and market activity. Market environments supported by liberal institutions, such as property rights, contractual freedom, and the rule of law, have not only facilitated material progress but corroded social stratification and promoted the welfare of oppressed and disadvantaged peoples.
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Oct 19, 2023 | 
mercatus.org | Mikayla Novak
This paper aims to advance an interpretation of social problems theory and analysis from the perspective of Virginia political economy. To the extent that social problems provide a rationale for collective action and public policymaking, social problems are considered a suitable candidate for appraisal using Virginia political economy’s conceptual and analytical constructs.
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Sep 12, 2023 | 
independent.org | Mikayla Novak
Outlining the strategic nature of nonviolent action, and cataloguing an array of historical resistance to the state, Gene Sharps book has inspired social movements from the 1980s anticommunist uprisings through the 2010s Arab Spring and beyond.
