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Tuesday, September 26, 2006


Moral Foundations of Capitalism: A Contradiction in Terms? New Institute at Clemson
From the New York Sun:

"The Clemson Institute for the Study of Capitalism is 'the only university-related think tank in the country devoted to exploring the moral foundations of capitalism,' the institute's executive director, C. Bradley Thompson, told The New York Sun. 'We hope to be the beginning of a new trend in higher education.'"

The institute has an impressive list of thought advisors, including Gary Becker of the University of Chicago and Vernon Smith of George Mason University.

"Justice Louis D. Brandeis'?s metaphor of the states as "laboratories" for policy experiments ... had almost nothing to do with federalism and everything to do with his commitment to scientific socialism. .... To this day, it continues to inhibit a truly experimental, federalist politics." -- Michael S. Greve

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