Alexander Schaefer
@AMSchaef
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Assistant professor of philosophy at UB. Former postdoc at NYU’s Classical Liberal Institute. Philosophy PhD from Arizona.
Buffalo, NY
Joined June 2021
New paper with @Otto_Lehto. Critics reject Hume’s theory of justice for its narrowness; others say it’s broad. No, we argue, it really is narrow but that’s a good thing for a diverse/dynamic society. When Less Is More: A Defense of Narrow, Humean Justice
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Abstract The narrow conception of justice traditionally attributed to Hume limits itself to respect for the rules of property. This article challenges the increasingly common idea that this view is...
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RT @JordanLofthouse: The work of the Ostroms and the broader Bloomington tradition is more important than ever. This is a thought-provoking….
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RT @Mattzwolinski: Abundance theorists are right to focus on the importance of building things. But by ignoring public choice theory, they….
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RT @mjuarezgarcia_: I help @Mattzwolinski edit the new edition of his successful reader. It is coming out on July 31st. If you’re teaching….
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This third edition of Arguing About Political Philosophy is the most complete, up-to-date, and interdisciplinary anthology of its kind. Its selections cover classic philosophical sources such as...
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If you’re in London and free tomorrow, I’m giving a talk at the LSE. Open to the public.
lse.ac.uk
Stability is Overrated: Towards a Dynamic Liberalism event by STICERD at the Department of Economics.
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Had an awesome time today presenting a paper at GMU’s PPE colloquium. Thanks to @PeterBoettke, @ccoyne1, and others at @mercatus for the killer conversation and the new books.
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RT @PeterBoettke: @Kaleidicworld @MalteDold @Springernomics @Kingspol_econ @HayekProgram Please share widely, to honor Paul Lewis the Revi….
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The Review of Austrian Economics has two broadly conceived objectives: (1) to promote the development and extension of Austrian economics and (2) to promote ...
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🚨New paper 🚨 .Why does hypocrisy make us so mad? Matt Jeffers and I have a theory. Available online — open access!.
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The Function of Hypocrisy Norms - Volume 37 Issue 2
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RT @JoHenrich: It's important to realize that immigration has been the wellspring of innovation and economic growth over the entire history….
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“Legibility,” “state simplification,” “high modernism,” “mētis,” “friction of terrain,”… — James Scott had a knack for generating useful concepts and terms. I’ll always be grateful for the vocabulary he created in Seeing Like a State and Against the Grain.
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Happy to announce that our PPE program was awarded $2.5 million to study dynamism and diversity. So excited to be a part of this team.
buffalo.edu
‘The importance of this work is difficult to overstate,’ Ryan Muldoon says of the Templeton-funded project.
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RT @RyanPMuldoon: 3 Year PPE Postdoc Opportunity!. Interested in studying the relationship between diversity, dynamism and inclusion? Do yo….
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RT @mjuarezgarcia_: In this paper, I put forward a non-ideal theory of corruption that intends to distinguish those cases in which corrupti….
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Scholars who study political corruption typically assume that it is a pathology. This assumption gives rise to certain problems. On the one hand, scholars who conceive corruption as a principal-age...
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RT @RyanPMuldoon: Do you like new approaches to things? How about social contract theory? . This is a very cool and rather cohesive volume….
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This paper is my attempt to further the dialogue between evolutionary theory and Ostromian political economy. It draws upon the Price equation to explain why polycentric orders are often surprisingly functional.
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New article in JEBO on cultural evolution and multilevel selection. You can read it for free! (until June 15).
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RT @RyanPMuldoon: I'm delighted to announce that UB's PPE hiring was an incredible success. We are welcoming .@AOprea_PPE, .@AMSchaef, and….
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