Freedom and Flourishing

  Everyone knows that resilience is important in coping with misfortune. However, it may be more important than I had thought. My attentio...

  Alexander Hamilton was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He served as secretary to the Treasury from 1789 to 1795 during t...

  Some readers will be wondering what the question means. What is this daimon? How does it relate to eudaimonia? How can you identify your d...

  Many people reading this are likely to view the use of stakeholder terminology by business leaders as little more than a public relations ...

  Cartoon by Peter Nicholson from “ The Australian ” newspaper:  www.nicholsoncartoons.com.au Some erstwhile supporters of capitalism prob...

  This is a companion piece to the preceding post in which I considered the extent to which international differences in personal freedom r...

  Max Borders shares his personal philosophy of life in his book, The Decentralist: Mission, morality and meaning in the age of crypto . H...

  Did you know that the word ‘metaphor’ is itself a metaphor? I just learnt that the word is a metaphor for carrying something beyond – it c...

  The question I have posed for myself has been prompted by a reader of my book,  Freedom, Progress, and Human Flourishing .  He asked how I...

  Adam Smith practiced humanomics. It came naturally to him. The famous pioneer of economic science did not need to pretend that humans have...