Category: Philosophy – Philosophy and Public Policy
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The Values of Australian Foreign Policy and the 2019 Election: A Potential Contest of Political Philosophies?
Australia’s political system is dominated by its two main parliamentary parties: the conservative Liberal-National Party Coalition, which has been in government since 2013; and the social-democratic Labor Party. Australian politics is thus typically a contest of the rival political philosophies and values commonly observed in modern liberal democracies, that of conservatism versus social democracy. While …
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Understanding the Importance of Amartya Sen’s Philosophy in His Economic Model
The purpose of this dissertation is to understand and analyze the extent to which philosophy impacts the manner in which practical economics plays out. It seeks to draw attention to the fact that there has been excessive focus on numbers and other such indicators of economic growth, causing social welfare to be severely ignored. Amartya …