Books written by David Schmidtz

  • Social Welfare and Individual Responsibility
    Social Welfare and Individual Responsibility

    Bane , Mary Jo , and David T. Ellwood . 1994. Welfare realities : From rhetoric to reform . Cambridge , Mass .: Harvard University Press . Barr , Nick . 1987. Economics of the welfare state . London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson . 1989.

  • A Brief History of Liberty
    A Brief History of Liberty

    Offers a succinct yet thorough survey of personal freedom Explores the true meaning of liberty, drawing philosophical lessons about liberty from history Considers the writings of key historical figures from Socrates and Erasmus to Hobbes, ...

  • Breve storia della libertà
    Breve storia della libertà

    M Vedi Geoffrey Brennan - Alan Hamlin, “Economizing on Virtue", Constitutional Politica! Economy, 6, 1995, pp. 35-56. îfl> Secondo Peter J. Richerson e Robert ... Vedi Shepard Krech, The Ecologica! lndian, New York, W.W. Norton, 2000.

  • Commercial Society: A Primer on Ethics and Economics
    Commercial Society: A Primer on Ethics and Economics

    The authors discuss the connections between the ethical, economic, and entrepreneurial dimensions of a life well-lived.

  • Ethics, Economy, and Entrepreneurship

    You don't want to have to pretend that you feel proud of fooling your customers into believing you could be trusted.The ethical question is: how do people have to live in order to make the world a better place with them than without them ...

  • Ethics, Economy, and Entrepreneurship

    In this book, Cathleen Johnson, Robert Lusch, and David Schmidtz discuss the connections between the ethical, economic, and entrepreneurial dimensions of a life well-lived.

  • Debating Education: Is There a Role for Markets?
    Debating Education: Is There a Role for Markets?

    Debating Education puts two leading scholars in conversation with each other on the subject of education-specifically, what role, if any, markets should play in policy reform.

  • The Oxford Handbook of Freedom
    The Oxford Handbook of Freedom

    The Oxford Handbook of Freedom will crystallize this work and craft the first wide-ranging analysis of freedom in all its dimensions: legal, cultural, religious, economic, political, and psychological.

  • New Essays in Moral Philosophy
    New Essays in Moral Philosophy

    ANTI-CONSERVATIVE BIAS IN EDUCATION IS REAL — BUT NOT UNJUST By Michael Cholbi A recurring theme in the American ... What's Liberal About the Liberal Arts? Classroom Politics and “Bias” in Higher Education (New York: W.W. Norton, ...

  • The Routledge Handbook of Libertarianism
    The Routledge Handbook of Libertarianism

    The Routledge Handbook of Libertarianism helps readers fully examine this alternative without preaching it to them, exploring the contours of libertarian (sometimes also called classical liberal) thinking on justice, institutions, ...

  • Commercial Society: A Primer on Ethics and Economics
    Commercial Society: A Primer on Ethics and Economics

    In this book, the authors discuss the connections between the ethical, economic, and entrepreneurial dimensions of a life well-lived.

  • The Oxford Handbook of Freedom
    The Oxford Handbook of Freedom

    The problem of political authority. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Jefferson, Thomas, 1782. Notes on the state of Virginia. Paris. McClenaghan, William A., 1994. Magruder's American government. Needham, MA: Prentice-Hall.

  • Person, Polis, Planet: Essays in Applied Philosophy
    Person, Polis, Planet: Essays in Applied Philosophy

    This volume collects thirteen of David Schmidtz's essays on the question of what it takes to live a good life, given that we live in a social and natural world.

  • The Oxford Handbook of Freedom
    The Oxford Handbook of Freedom

    The Oxford Handbook of Freedom will crystallize this work and craft the first wide-ranging analysis of freedom in all its dimensions: legal, cultural, religious, economic, political, and psychological.

  • A Brief History of Liberty
    A Brief History of Liberty

    Stimulating and thought-provoking, A Brief History of Liberty offers readers a philosophically-informed portrait of the elusive nature of one of our most cherished ideals.

  • Rational Choice and Moral Agency
    Rational Choice and Moral Agency

    This book thus offers a set of interesting and realistic conclusions about how morality fits into the lives of humanly rational agents operating in an institutional context like our own.

  • Social Welfare and Individual Responsibility
    Social Welfare and Individual Responsibility

    The issue of social welfare and individual responsibility has become a topic of international public debate in recent years as politicians around the world now question the legitimacy of state-funded welfare programs.

  • El bienestar social y la responsabilidad individual
    El bienestar social y la responsabilidad individual

    Robert Goodin argues against the individualization of welfare policy and expounds the virtues of collective responsibility.

  • Person, Polis, Planet: Essays in Applied Philosophy
    Person, Polis, Planet: Essays in Applied Philosophy

    ... Ryan has not yet done his part. Ryan's rescue can never be deserved in the way a reward or prize is deserved. To be earned (deserved) at all, the rescue will have to be earned in the way advance salary is earned: that is, after the fact ...

  • Rational Choice and Moral Agency
    Rational Choice and Moral Agency

    This book thus offers a set of interesting and realistic conclusions about how morality fits into the lives of humanly rational agents operating in an institutional context like our own.