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War and Individual Rights by Kai Draper; Oxford University Press, 2016, xii + 254 pp.Many people make fun of analytic philosophy because of its use of imaginary cases, often elaborated with what seems perverse ingenuity. It is better, critics claim, to stick close to reality. While there is much to be said for this, the analytic method is frequently insightful, as I’ll try to show. War and Individual Rights is the best analytic discussion of the just war, both the...

  Erzwungene Transformation – das große Missverständnis 22. November 2024 – von Rainer Fassnacht Zur Bedeutung des Wortes Transformation ist im Duden zu lesen „das Transformieren; das Transformiertwerden“. Diese Erklärung weist aus Sicht der Sprache auf einen Doppelcharakter hin – der Mensch kann selbst aktiv gestalten oder ein Objekt für die Umgestaltungswünsche anderer Menschen sein. Genau dieser Doppelcharakter zeigt sich auch, wenn Ökonomen von...

Before anyone gets their hopes up about a reduction in government expenditures resulting from the upcoming Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), remember that, once rolling, a log rolls in one direction—downhill—until stopped. But have any of us ever tried stopping a log as it accelerates down a hill?The LogAh, the log. Speaking with the voice of a legislator, it blocked your path—your desired line-item, buried deep in a spending bill, which was on its way to...

By Bryan Cutsinger Why did the United States abandon the gold standard? In an article published recently by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Maria Hasenstab cites the international gold shortage during the Great Depression. “Countries around the world basically ran out of supply and were forced off the gold standard,” she writes. In passing, the article mentions the American people were not forced off by an international gold shortage,...

Pour l’année 2024, les acheteuses et les acheteurs avaient le choix, pour la première fois, entre la vignette autocollante conventionnelle et la vignette électronique. Un bon tiers des personnes ont opté pour la version numérique. [embedded content] Tags: Featured,newsletter

It is popularly deemed a sign of moral superiority and a mark of the “progressive” mind to heavily criticize the existence of inequalities of wealth and income within the social order of the division of labor and private ownership in the means of production. However, the sober mind, careful of being unduly biased by errant ideological presuppositions, is often found to hold views that run contrary to the prevalent lines of reasoning advanced by these critics. This...

The Swiss interior ministry estimates that around a third of society, including the elderly and people with disabilities, have difficulty grasping the basic functions of digital tools. Keystone / Christian Beutler Listen to the article...

Overview:  Escalating tensions in Europe and comments from Bank of Japan Ueda that spurred speculation of a December hike are the main drivers of the foreign exchange market today. The yen is the strongest of the G10 currencies, up about 0.65%, while the euro is the weakest, off a little more than 0.25%, and sterling is down almost as much. Most of the other G10 currencies are little changed. Led by central European currencies, most emerging market currencies are...

The job cuts are part of the biggest transformation project in the SBC's history. Keystone / Anthony Anex Listen to the article Listening the article Toggle language...

USD/CHF trades in a tight range below 0.8850 as investors seek fresh Fed interest rate cues. Donald Trump’s economic agenda will be inflationary for the US economy. Investors await flash US S&P Global PMI for November and SNB Schlegel’s speech, which are scheduled for Friday. The USD/CHF pair consolidates in a tight range below 0.8850 in European trading hours on Thursday. The Swiss Franc pair trades sideways as investors look for fresh...