Recent studies of egalitarian ethics have attempted to resolve the conflict between redistributive egalitarianism and personal responsibility. That is, how much of where one ends up in life depends on individual effort or merit as opposed to random luck should make a difference in how much of the surplus should be returned to help support […]
Brynne VanHettinga
Is The Job Market Working For Us?
Many of us may remember something we learned in either introductory psychology or management classes called “the hierarchy of needs,” or Maslow’s Pyramid. Abraham Maslow (1908 – 1970) was an American psychologist who proposed that human motivation operated along a continuum of need fulfillment. Maslow’s model is frequently depicted as a pyramid, where the lower […]
What the Patchwork Nation Means for Politics and Policy
In a previous post, we looked at the research of Dante Chinni and James Gimpel, who have identified twelve distinct community types in the United States, and correlated these communities with voting preferences. These communities are scattered throughout the country and—with the possible exception of Mormons and Evangelicals– generally do not conform neatly to state […]
