The Philosophy Hammer: Philosophy, Economics, Politics and Psychology Tested with a Hammer

Précis
Textual précis from scholarly journals and famous essays.

Incorporating considerations of health impacts into land use development approval processes
Development of a health background study framework
Original Article By: Brent W. Moloughney and Gayle E. Bursey and Jana Neumann
Canadian journal of Public Health, supplement 1 (2015) eS33
Does Affordable Housing Detrimentally Affect Property Values?
A Review of the Literature
Original Article By: Mai Thi Nguyen
Journal of Planning Literature, Vol. 20, No. 1 (August 2005)
Affordable housing often has bad connotations, it is often argued that it reduces property values however this is not necessarily true.
Paging Inspector Sands:
The Costs of Public Information
Original Article By: Sacha Kapoor and Arvind Magesan
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 2014, 6(1): 92-113
This paper studies the effects of providing more public information in the form of pedestrian countdown signals (which also alert drivers to the time remaining on a green light) on the behaviour and safety of all road users.
Suburban Sprawl
Exposing Hidden Costs, Identifying Innovations
Original Article By: David Thompson
Sustainable Prosperity; Sustainable communities Oct. 2013
This report deals with the problems of suburban sprawl and how to solve their root cause and primary driver: prices
Incorporating considerations of health impacts into land use development approval processes:
Development of a health background study framework
Original Article By: Brent W. Moloughney and Gayle E. Bursey and Jana Neumann
Canadian Journal of Public Health null
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Casinos, Crime, And Community Costs
Original Article By: Earl L. Grinols and David B. Mustard
The Review of Economics and Statistics Vol 88 No 1 (Feb., 2006)
Casinos may decrease crime in the first two years after their opening but they will always increase crime rates in all major categories within five years after opening.
The Terrorism Delusion
America's Overwrought Response to September 11
Original Article By: John Mueller and Mark G. Stewart
International Security Summer 2012 vol 37 no 1
al-Qaida got lucky, then terrorism experts when blind and finally politicians fanned the anxiety
China's Century?
Why America's Edge Will Endure
Original Article By: Michael Beckley
International Security Winter 2011/12 vol 36 no 3
America is not in decline relative to China; China is failing to catch up in the most important indicators
Who Suffers During Recessions?
Original Article By: Hilary Hoynes and Douglas L. Miller and Jessamyn Schaller
The Journal of Economic Perspectives (Summer 2012) vol 26 no 3
The usual suspects, men, ethnic minorities, the youth and low educated workers suffer most during economic downturns.
Status Seekers:
Chinese and Russian Responses to U.S. Primacy
Original Article By: Deborah Welch Larson and Alexei Shevchenko
International Security Spring 2010 vol 34 no 4
When a nation's image is less than desired relative to another, it may respond in one of three ways: accommodatingly, competitively or creatively.
Long Time Going:
Religion and the Duration of Crusading
Original Article By: Michael C. Horowitz
International Security Fall 2009 vol 34 no 2
With globalization, which reduces the individual's attachment to a geographical area, an increase in the role of religion relative to the nation state in forming identities may increase the roll of religion in warfare.
Bad Debts:
Assessing China's Financial Influence in Great Power Politics
Original Article By: Daniel W. Drezner
International Security Fall 2009 vol 34 no 2
Financial power over a powerful debtor state is very difficult to convert into political power; a great power can sometimes convert its financial power into political power over a small power.
China's Naval Nationalism:
Sources, Prospects, and the U.S. Response
Original Article By: Robert S. Ross
International Security Fall 2009 vol 34 no 2
It is nationalism not security that is fueling China's Navy, China is not and will never be in a position to devote enough resources to become a maritime power and China's naval nationalism will likely be interpenetrated as a challenge by the U.S.
A Theory of Optimum Currency Areas
Original Article By: Robert A. Mundell
The American Economic Review (Sept., 1961) vol 51, no 4
What is the appropriate domain of a currency area?
An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment?
Original Article By: Immanuel Kant
Perpetual Peace and Other Essays
Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity.
The Social Market Roots of Democratic Peace
Original Article By: Michael Mousseau
International Security Spring 2009 vol 33 no 4
Contract-intensive economic development explains the democratic peace better than democracy alone.
The Pursuit of The Ideal
Original Article By: Isaiah Berlin
The Proper Study of Mankind An Anthology of Essays
Pluralism holds that different values can be understood and one can benefit from the attempt to understand them.
Nationalism:
Past Neglect and Present Power
Original Article By: Isaiah Berlin
The Proper Study of Mankind An Anthology of Essays
Why did people not see the possible paths of nationalism.
Money, Prices, and Capital:
An Austrian Approach to Macroeconomics
Original Article By: William N. Butos
The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics Winter 2006 vol 9 no 4
The author elucidates five problems he sees commonly in Keynesian economic textbooks.
Explaining Malinvestment and Overinvestment
Original Article By: Larry J. Sechrest
The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics Winter 2006 vol 9 no 4
Austrian Business Cycle Theory explains the business cycle by calling attention to the bad effects on business decisions of a central bank's monetary policy.
A Geriatric Peace?
The Future of U.S. Power in a World of Aging Populations
Original Article By: Mark L. Hass
International Security Summer 2008 vol 32 no 1
All major countries are getting older but America is in the best position.
The Counter-Enlightenment
Original Article By: Isaiah Berlin
The Proper Study of Mankind An Anthology of Essays
There were ideas that morality, institutions and laws were based on fluctuating human customs and practice.
Illicit Activity and Proliferation:
North Korean Smuggling Networks
Original Article By: Sheena Chestnut
International Security Summer 2007 vol 32 no 1
There has been a history of overlooking the efforts of state sponsored illicit smuggling networks and there has been an expansion of criminal gangs into international smuggling.
The Originality of Machiavelli
Original Article By: Isaiah Berlin
The Proper Study of Mankind An Anthology of Essays
Machiavelli is original because he wreaked enduring harm on a foundational supposition of a whole civilization.
What Terrorists Really Want:
Terrorist Motives and Counterterrorism Strategy
Original Article By: Max Abrahms
International Security Fall 2008 vol 32 no 4
Terrorists join terrorist groups for social solidarity, not for their political return.
How American Treaty Behavior Threatens National Security
Original Article By: Antonia Chayes
International Security Fall 2008 vol 33 no 1
America has been inconsistent and undependable in its formal international relations.
Closing Time:
Assessing the Iranian Threat to the Strait of Hormuz
Original Article By: Caitlin Talmadge
International Security Fall 2008 vol 33 no 1
By preventing oil transport through the Strait of Hormuz, Iran could keep one quarter of the world's oil production from reaching the market. A full closure or even the threat of conflict would cause a massive price and supply shock.
Assessing the Dangers of Illicit Networks:
Why al-Qaida May Be Less Dangerous Than Many Think
Original Article By: Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni and Calvert Jones
International Security Fall 2008 vol 33 no 2
The prevailing pessimism about the ability of states to combat illicit networks is premature.
Making the World Safe for Partial Democracy?
Questioning the Premises of Democracy Promotion
Original Article By: Arthur A. Goldsmith
International Security Fall 2008 vol 33 no 2
Not every advance in democracy generates a safer and better world and data from historical attempts to promote democracy are mixed at best.
Why Resistance Works:
The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict
Original Article By: Maria J. Stephan and Erica Chenoweth
International Security Summer 2008 vol 33 no 1
This article compares the struggles of 323 non-violent and violent campaigns from 1900 to 2006 against states by non-state entities.
The Rise of Afghanistan's Insurgency:
State Failure and Jihad
Original Article By: Seth G. Jones
International Security Fall 2008 vol 32 no 4
The insurgency developed because when the relatively strong Taliban government was over thrown it was replaced by a weak government that could not provide security for the people.