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In addition to this work, there is also a corpus of work on promises in game theory and economic theory, stemming from the contractarian project of grounding promissory obligation in self-interested rationality.

Transport: a Flash-Fiction Triptych 2009

Yet if we take it that morality only demands what is rational to further our interests, then it seems that the contractarian must say that in such sub-optimal cases, the promiser has no obligation to keep her promise.

Transport: a Flash-Fiction Triptych 2009

Clark has stated, a tory interpretation of English political history has a definition of 'liberty' not reliant on a whig understanding of parliament and contractarian government - while English social history will be understood to have been influenced much more by what Clark terms "the residual values of an ancien regime", rather than a Marxist class-based analysis.

Simon Heffer is not a tory Burke's Corner 2009

Hampton favors a contractarian morality over the ethic of care, since on the former a person is prompted by self-interest in putting forward claims with other potential contractors to the hypothetical bargain from which morality is ultimately derived.

Feminist Moral Psychology Superson, Anita 2009

More deeply, however, it belies a stance that is thoroughly opposed to the contractarian and autonomy-based tradition of modern political theory that Rawls espoused in his later philosophy.

Matthew Yglesias » Before There Was Early Rawls… 2007

Clark has stated, a tory interpretation of English political history has a definition of 'liberty' not reliant on a whig understanding of parliament and contractarian government - while English social history will be understood to have been influenced much more by what Clark terms "the residual values of an ancien regime", rather than a Marxist class-based analysis.

Archive 2009-04-01 Burke's Corner 2009

There are two ways that I can see developing a social welfare function: positing as an external norm, or through contractarian agreement.

Carbon Tax Club?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

MK, this leads to an interpretation of the state that cannot be contractarian in nature: citizens would not empower a ruler to solve collective action problems in any of the models discussed, for the ruler would always be redundant and italics in the original.

Some Libertarian Basics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

A contractarian agreement would be superior in that it is endogenously determined through the voice competition of the participants in a society rather than as a result of the thoughts and arbitrary implementation of some intellectual or politician, but even it has major flaws.

Carbon Tax Club?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

For this reason, feminist contractarians have suggested that women should privately subject their intimate relationships to a contractarian test for fairness, while excluding affective benefits

Marriage and Domestic Partnership Brake, Elizabeth 2009