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On the Ethics of Boycotts
What could be moral problems with calling for or joining a boycott even if your goals in doing so are just? Johanna Thoma discusses why she thinks a general academic and cultural boycott of Israel is unjustified.
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Talking Monetary Policy: Are Central Banks communicating what they should? A NLP Analysis
Johannes Renz argues that central banks have duties to inform the general public on policy within their primary and further mandates, as well as the downstream consequences of their policy.
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Kann es vernünftig sein, die AfD zu wählen?
Uwe Czaniera beleuchtet die Ziele der AfD und argumentiert, dass ihre Umsetzung das Wohlergehen der deutschen Gesellschaft nicht steigern würde.
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How important is it to speak early in group deliberation?
It matters who speaks first – Soroush Rafiee Rad, Sebastian Till Braun and Olivier Roy study anchoring as a structural bias of deliberation.
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Beyond Membership: Understanding the Dynamic Identity of Social Groups
How can it be that social groups maintain their identity even though members come and go? In this post, Joanna Kreft solves the puzzle.
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Vouchers to Safeguard the Social Minimum
Inflation undermines people’s ability to have their needs securely met. Leon Baumann makes a new case for voucher-based social security programmes.
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Were Germany’s Energy Price Brakes Distributively Just?
Pia Riepl-Bauer argues that the German Energy Price Brake is a distributively unjust measure against the recent dual yet interlocked issues of high inflation and high energy prices.
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Die AfD und Inflationsängste: Negativ-Framing und Feindbilder
Wie hängen der Aufstieg der AfD und die Inflationskrise zusammen? Caroline Ow-Wachendorf analysiert die rhetorischen Strategien der AfD, mit Hilfe derer sie die gesellschaftliche Unzufriedenheit für ihre Zwecke nutzt.
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