Call For Papers

“After(?) The Storm: Lessons from the Great Recession” conference

May 24-25, 2012, Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis, Rimini, Italy

The Great Recession, which started with Lehman Brothers collapse three and a half years ago, had a bigimpact on both the theory and practice of macroeconomic policy. Effectiveness of monetary policy atzero bound, fiscal policy over the business cycle, prudential supervision of the financial system, the roleof regulation, reaction to bubbles, and many other issues have been reassessed. The conference will bedevoted to discussing lessons learned and theoretical and practical issues in implementing them.

Students for Liberty has announced their first Philosophical E-Seminar: "The aim of this initiative is to promote discussion among different perspectives on the concept of liberty at an academic level. The first keynote speaker announced is Professor Timothy Chappel. The topic for this year will be “The Place of Liberty in Theories of Justice.”"

Call for Papers

Whatever our conception of justice is, it seems that justice poses some constraints on our liberty. If, according to the traditional definition, justice is to give to everybody what belongs to everybody, then justice limits our liberty of violating this inner command. In general justice has to do with ethics, whilst liberty is commonly understood as a property of human beings. Is it possible to claim for the existence of justice—as an ethical code, which human beings are supposed to share, and to practice —and at the same time to argue that human beings are constituted as free?

Or, on the other hand, is the claim for the existence of justice the basis in order to claim that human beings are free, insofar as if they were not free, they could not choose to be just? And if so, how this conception affects the notion of liberty? Should liberty be understood as the faculty of fulfilling the ethical commands of our nature – among whose we count the exigency of being just? Moreover, does our description of justice and of liberty as characteristics of human beings lead us to claim for the existence of human nature – and of natures, quite generally?

Each contribution is asked to tackle these questions (or a selection of them), and to analyze them even from an established philosophical perspective (e.g. Kantian deontologism, Natural law theory, Aristotelian, or Straussian teleologism, relativism, Rawlsian theory of justice, etc.). With this constraint, we hope to enable speakers to deal with the relevant issue of the topic within a limit of 8000 words (suitable for a 40 minutes presentation). Our goal is to make possible a dialogue among different conceptions of both liberty and justice, in order to compare how different philosophical perspectives face the problems involved by the relation between these concepts. As a consequence, we do not exclude an historical approach from the contributions we seek. Rather, we welcome historical papers on major philosophers, but we ask speakers to stress the philosophical problems of each perspective they would like to outline. Papers will be delivered in a webinar hosted by Students For Liberty on September 21st-23rd, 2012.

Three very well known scholars will introduce each seminar’s day. The call for papers will end on April 30th. Proceedings will be published with an international scholarly publisher. Submissions should be sent to philosophicalseminar@studentsforliberty.org. For any further information, please contact Carlo Ludovico Cordasco at ccordasco@studentsforliberty.org or Luca Gili at luca.gili.1987@sns.it

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Journal of Entrepreneurship & Public Policy (JEPP) is currently seeking papers. Edited by Professor Noel Campbell of the University of Central Arkansas, JEPP was created to encourage and disseminate quality research about the vital relationships among institutions, entrepreneurship, and economic outcomes, and to improve the quality of the political discourse about entrepreneurship and development policies.

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The Editors of Reason Papers are soliciting submissions of manuscripts for a special symposium on emergencies (due by March 1, 2014). Send submissions to reasonpapers@gmail.com. Inquiries welcome.  

Submissions may grapple with any of a wide variety of issues related to emergencies (not an exhaustive list): How is “emergency” to be defined?  How do we know when we enter/exit an emergency?  How should moral and legal norms be formulated so as to take stock of emergencies–if they should? Are moral norms defeasible in the face of emergencies, or specially contextualized so as to preserve their indefeasibility? Who has special authority for decision-making in an emergency? How best to guard against abuses of power or corruptions of norms in emergency situations? 

We’re looking for submissions across the broadest spectrum of relevant disciplines–philosophy, political science, legal studies, history, sociology, anthropology, medicine, criminology/police studies, strategic/military studies, etc.

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