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Professor Samuel Bowles

Machiavelli's Mistake: Why Good Incentives are no Substitute for Good Citizens - Lecture 1 - Moral sentiments and material interests

Samuel Bowles, Research Professor at the Santa Fe Institute and Professor of Economics at the University of Siena, gave three public lectures where he presented evidence that explicit incentives and constraints often diminish ethical motivations.  This is the first lecture of a three-part Castle lecture series.

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Professor Samuel Bowles

Machiavelli's Mistake: Why Good Incentives are no Substitute for Good Citizens - Lecture 2 - Is liberalism a parasite on tradition?

Samuel Bowles, Research Professor at the Santa Fe Institute and Professor of Economics at the University of Siena, gave three public lectures where he presented evidence that explicit incentives and constraints often diminish ethical motivations.  This is the second lecture of a three-part Castle lecture series.

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Professor Samuel Bowles

Machiavelli's Mistake: Why Good Incentives are no Substitute for Good Citizens - Lecture 3 - Machiavelli's mistake

Samuel Bowles, Research Professor at the Santa Fe Institute and Professor of Economics at the University of Siena, gave three public lectures where he presented evidence that explicit incentives and constraints often diminish ethical motivations.  This is the third lecture of a three-part Castle lecture series.

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Professor Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im

Islam and the Secular State

Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im, Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law at Emory University School of Law gave the 2010 Robert Litowitz Lecture for the Program in Ethics, Politics and Economics.   Professor An-Na’im presented and defended a framework for the constant theoretical and political contestation of the relationship between Islam, the state, politics and society.

Professor Michael Doyle

Nonintervention and Intervention: The Use of Force Across Borders - Lecture 1 - Nonintervention - (Audio Only)

Michael W. Doyle, Harold Brown Professor of International Affairs, Law and Political Science at Columbia University, gave three public lectures where he examined the legal and ethical arguments supporting nonintervention, engaging in a dialogue with John Stuart Mill’s famous remarks on the subject.  This is the first lecture of a three-part series. Please note this is an audio-only version.  To hear this lecture, please click here.

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Professor Michael Doyle

Nonintervention and Intervention: The Use of Force Across Borders - Lecture 2 - Overriding Nonintervention

Michael W. Doyle, Harold Brown Professor of International Affairs, Law and Political Science at Columbia University, gave three public lectures where he examined the legal and ethical arguments supporting nonintervention, engaging in a dialogue with John Stuart Mill’s famous remarks on the subject.  This is the second lecture of a three-part series.

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Professor Michael Doyle

Nonintervention and Intervention: The Use of Force Across Borders - LEcture 3 - Disregarding Nonintervention

Michael W. Doyle, Harold Brown Professor of International Affairs, Law and Political Science at Columbia University, gave three public lectures where he examined the legal and ethical arguments supporting nonintervention, engaging in a dialogue with John Stuart Mill’s famous remarks on the subject.  This is the third ecture of a three-part series.