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Old Arguments (old + argument)

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Selected Abstracts

Totipotency and the Moral Status of Embryos: New Problems for an Old Argument

JOURNAL OF SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY, Issue 1 2004
William J. FitzPatrick
First page of article [source]

THE LONG-TERM ECONOMIC GAIN FROM NEW MODELS OF HEALTHCARE PROVISION: THE OPPORTUNITIES FOR PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES

ECONOMIC AFFAIRS, Issue 3 2006
Nick Bosanquet
The case for competition in healthcare has become much stronqer. Health economists have failed to notice the erosion of the old arguments for state monopoly. [source]

Realist Versus Anti-Realist Moral Selves,and the Irrelevance of Narrativism

JOURNAL FOR THE THEORY OF SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR, Issue 2 2009
KRISTJÁN KRISTJÁNSSON
This paper has three aims. The first is to subject to critical analysis the intractable debate between realists and anti-realists about the status of the so-called (moral) self, a debate that traverses various academic disciplines and discursive fields. Realism about selves has fallen on hard times of late, and the second aim of this paper is to get it back on track. Traditional substantive conceptions of the self contain ontological baggage that many moderns will be loath to carry. This paper settles for a more moderate aim, a "softer" kind of self-realism derived from an unlikely source,Hume,and outlines the Humean moral self and its possible advantages. The third and subsidiary aim is to challenge the view that recent "narrative" conceptions of selfhood have made the old realism versus anti-realism debate redundant. "Narrativism" about selves turns out to do little more than recycle old arguments in fancy new packages. [source]

Poverty and the Distribution of Land

JOURNAL OF AGRARIAN CHANGE, Issue 3 2002
Keith Griffin
Redistributive land reforms have begun to attract the attention of scholars and policy makers once again. In this paper, we review old arguments and bring them up-to-date in the light of recent research. We begin with the case in favour of redistributive reforms focusing on fragmented factor markets and systems of labour control, of which concentration of land ownership is but one aspect. We then examine land reform in practice, focusing on distinct regional features and outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, the transition economies of the former Soviet bloc and, as examples of success, East Asia (including China and Vietnam). Next we discuss the macroeconomic context and the two-way direction of causality between a redistribution of productive assets and the overall performance of the economy. We underline the importance of weakening the system of labour control, eliminating landlord bias and correcting urban bias. Finally, we argue that a prominent feature of all successful land reforms has been a high degree of land confiscation; full compensation and various types of ,market friendly' land reform are unlikely to be successful. [source]