Conservative Institute of M. R. Štefánik

organized on March 12, 2012 in Bratislava and on March 13, 2012 in Žilina another lecture within

Conservative Economic Quarterly Lecture Series /CEQLS/:

Tragedy of Commons
On Ecology and Economics

Lecture given by:
David Schmidtz, Professor of Philosophy, joint Professor of Economics, and founding Director of the Center for Philosophy of Freedom at the University of Arizona

Hosted by:
Peter Gonda, the Conservative Institute Director

David Schmidtz: CEQLS Lecture for the Conservative Institute, Bratislava, March 12, 2012

David Schmidtz: Presentation for the CEQLS Lecture for the Conservative Institute, Bratislava, March 12, 2012

About David Schmidtz

David Schmidtz is Kendrick Professor of Philosophy, joint Professor of Economics, and founding Director of the Arizona’s Freedom Center at the University of Arizona. University of Arisona is rated by Philosophical Gourmet as the #1 program in the world in political philosophy. He serves on the board of BASIS High Schools and he has taught first-year Property at Florida State College of Law.

David is author of Rational Choice and Moral Agency (Princeton), Elements of Justice (Cambridge), Person, Polis, Planet (Oxford). He is co-author of Social Welfare and Individual Responsibility (Cambridge, with Bob Goodin) and A Brief History of Liberty (Blackwell, with Jason Brennan). His first book, The Limits of Government: An Essay on the Public Goods Argument (Westview, 1991), combined his interests in moral philosophy and economic analysis.

He has published in many journals, including the Political Theory, Journal of Philosophy, and Ethics (most recently on the topic of nonideal theory).

Publications /selected/:

· A Brief History of Liberty (2010), Chapter I
· Elements of Justice (2006), Chapter I
· Property In Klosko, G.: Oxford Handbook of the History of Political Philosophy (2011)
· Not for Sale In Journal of Philosophy (2011)
· What Nozick Did for Decision Theory (with Sarah Wright) In Midwest Studies in Philosophy (2004)
· Natural Enemies. An Anatomy of Environmental Conflict In Environmental Ethics (2002)

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