Robert Nozick

Sep 6, 2024 | independent.org | Robert Nozick

Robert Nozick’s Classic at 50: Anarchy, State, and Utopia Thursday, October 24, 2024 Thursday, October 24, 2024 6:00 p.m.: Wine and Hors d’Oeuvres Reception 7:00 p.m.: Program and Q&A Independent Institute Conference Center 100 Swan Way Oakland, CA 94621 Free Parking Map and directions General Admission: $15 or $10 for Members All tickets include a free copy of the Fall 2024 issue of The Independent Review (list price: $11.95) Book: Anarchy, State, and Utopia, $10 per copy (50% off) Reserve...

Jun 22, 2024 | freakonomics.com | Kim Scott |Robert Nozick |Angela Duckworth |Mike Maughan

Episode Transcript MAUGHAN: I’m going to go do something completely crazy. *      *      *DUCKWORTH: I’m Angela Duckworth. MAUGHAN: I’m Mike Maughan. DUCKWORTH + MAUGHAN: And you’re listening to No Stupid Questions. Today on the show: is it unhealthy to have unrealistic dreams? DUCKWORTH: “I won the lottery.” “I got into every dental school I applied to.” “He likes me back.”*      *      *MAUGHAN: Angela, I’m excited today.

Jun 22, 2024 | listennotes.com | Kim Scott |Robert Nozick

ABOUT THIS EPISODEAre fantasies helpful or harmful? How is daydreaming like a drug? And what did Angela fantasize about during ninth-grade English class? SOURCES:Patrick Bet-David, YouTuber and founding C.E.O. of PHP Agency Inc. Barbara Corcoran, "Shark" and executive producer on ABC’s Shark Tank and founder of The Corcoran Group. Peter Gollwitzer, professor of psychology at New York University. Danny Kahneman, professor emeritus of psychology at Princeton University. Robert Nozick, philosopher.

Jun 1, 2024 | sharpenyouraxe.substack.com | Robert Nozick |Eric Ries |Amartya Sen |Rupert Cocke

"Growth chart" by griseldangelo1 is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.Liberals (in the old-fashioned and European sense of the word) have a significant problem. “We should mostly leave people alone and then good things will happen” is a time-tested statement. Unfortunately, slogans based on this message will rarely win elections; and some people will undermine the idea by basing their whole worldview on it, without tempering it with any other insights.

May 11, 2023 | reason.com | Robert Nozick

The Israeli Kibbutzim provide the acid test for Voluntary Socialism. | What percentage of people would choose to live under socialism? The communist countries do not help us to answer this question, for neither through elections nor through emigration do they offer their people any choice.