Policy making: An alternative model

The real world is a far less tidy place than described in the welfare optimising model. An alternative to this messy world eschews its main features and embodies those that define the alternative model.Firstly, the alternative model does not use the social welfare function as the core concept. It abandons...

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Toward nuclear winter?

Reportedly, Washington is drawing up plans for a "bloody nose" military attack on North Korea to stop its nuclear weapons programme. According to high-level sources, the White House has "dramatically" stepped up preparation for a military solution in recent months amid fears diplomacy is not working. A few years ago,...

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Balfour Declaration & a bloody legacy: Centennial reflections

Reputedly where the sun would never set, the British Empire bequeathed one of the bloodiest legacies across a wider geographical compass than any other empires, bequeathing a sad inheritance: the growth of reprehensible and bloody repercussions even as we approach the first centennial of its ending (in 1947). What dramatises...

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