From decency to civility by way of economics: “first let's eat and then talk of right and wrong”.
Part of a special issue on some of the provocative issues that inhere in the idea of a “decent society” and that are raised by Avishai Margalit's book The Decent Society. The writer considers what the remedies are for indecent, uncivil societies enmeshed in a global economy that permeates local pol...
| Publicado en: | Social Research Vol. 64; pp. 112 - 131 |
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New School for Social Research
Spring 1997
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