WEA Pedagogy Blog

Could you persuade an ordinary decent person that murder might sometimes be morally admirable? Deep moral convictions are not easily shaken. A person may be confused, tempted, frightened, or pressured into wrongdoing, but to calmly reconsider the moral status of murder itself — that seems almost impossible. Yet in one of Harvard’s most famous lecture series, Professor Michael...

Economics today is a field wrestling with its own self-understanding. It oscillates between mathematical precision and institutional realism, between measurement and interpretation, between technocratic...

This post summarizes the first five chapters (through Chapter 5A) of Alasdair MacIntyre’s Whose Justice? Which Rationality? It is written for economists—especially heterodox economists—because MacIntyre exposes something deeper than “mainstream mistakes.” He shows why modernity has lost the ability to even hear what Plato and Aristotle were ...