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Policymaking is guided by many approaches. Research into any particular area can no longer be framed by a select number of disciplines, or exclusively through abstract models. The texts featured here are influenced by philosophy, theories on complexity, and heterodox economics. They are tools to reset our thought processes, to engage our doubts, and to broaden debate.

Five Minute Philosopher

Argumentative Reflection on the Harm Principle: Disavowing Feminism

In considering the role of the State in the promotion of welfare one is struck by the application of John Stuart Mill’s harm principle (On Liberty, 1859) to contemporary concerns, particularly to the question of unfettered...