Featured | Democratic Firms
Does Classical Liberalism Imply Democracy?
This paper, written for a classical liberal audience, goes into the fault line running down the middle of the doctrine: does classical liberalism imply democracy? The libertarian wing, represented concretely today in the startup or charter cities initiatives, only requires consent (and exit) so the consent could be to a non-democratic pact of subjection. The democratic form of classical liberalism is represented by the mature James M. Buchanan who held that a liberal social order required people to be principals in their organizations who could only delegate but not alienate their rights of self-governance. That distinction is traced back to the Reformation inalienability of conscience that descends through the Enlightenment to modern times in the abolitionist and democratic movements.
PBS Making Sen$e blog: The case for employee-owned companies
This is the “justice in production” argument in a nutshell posted on the PBS Making Sen$e website.
Featured | Development
Parallel Experimentation
The theme of parallel experimentation is used to recast and pull together dynamic and pluralistic theories in economics, political theory, philosophy of science, and social learning.
Three Themes about the Mondragon cooperatives
This is a preprint of a paper developing three themes, capital structure, active learning, and spinoffs, with special attention to the Mondragon cooperatives.
Featured | Property Theory
PBS Making Sen$e blog: The case for employee-owned companies
This is the “justice in production” argument in a nutshell posted on the PBS Making Sen$e website.
Classical Liberalism and the Firm
This is a scan of my chapter in the new book: Commerce and Community: Ecologies of Social Cooperation, edited by Robert F. Garnett, Paul Lewis, and Lenore T. Ealy. London: Routledge, 2015.
Featured | Quantum Mechanics
The Existence-Information Duality
The development of the logic of partitions (dual to the usual Boolean logic of subsets) and logical information theory bring out a fundamental duality between existence (e.g., elements of a subset) and information (e.g., distinctions of a partition). This leads in a more meta-physical vein to two different conceptions of reality, one of which provides the realistic interpretation of quantum mechanics.
Partition Logic talk slides Ljubljana
Slides from talk on Partition Logic at University of Ljubljana Sept. 8, 2015.
Featured | Mathematics
The Existence-Information Duality
The development of the logic of partitions (dual to the usual Boolean logic of subsets) and logical information theory bring out a fundamental duality between existence (e.g., elements of a subset) and information (e.g., distinctions of a partition). This leads in a more meta-physical vein to two different conceptions of reality, one of which provides the realistic interpretation of quantum mechanics.
Partition Logic talk slides Ljubljana
Slides from talk on Partition Logic at University of Ljubljana Sept. 8, 2015.
