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CHAIRE HOOVER Louvain-La-Neuve

"Post Darwinian Societies Seminar" #2

"‘Darwinism’ in Victorian England: a contested category” fit? Piers HALE (University of Oklahoma) Although terms like Darwinism and Social Darwinism have been used as historical categories to classify certain forms of biological or social thought, the historical record reveals that what it...
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Table ronde autour de "Retraites et justice sociale. La...

    Intervenants : Daniel Dumont (ULB) Nathalie Frogneux (UCLouvain - ISP) Jean Hindriks (UCLouvain - CORE) Gregory Ponthiere (UCLouvain - ISP)       En ce XXIe siècle, l’idée d’un revenu de base à destination de la jeunesse est devenue un...
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Mich "From Turgot’s freedom to labour to Jacobin...

Mardi intime de la Chaire Hoover par Pablo Scotto Benito In 1776, Turgot abolishes the guilds in France in the name of the right to work, understood as the freedom of every individual to choose their profession. During the French Revolution, this right to earn a living through labour becomes...
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"Post Darwinian Societies Seminar" #1

"Homo Moralis, a model of moral behavior grounded on evolutionary arguments". Ingela ALGER (TSE IAST) et Jean-François LASLIER (PSE)     “Survival of the fittest” is often taken to imply that human life must be the Hobbesian “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.”...
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The Hoover Diaspora Annual Conference

Two days Hoover Alumni conference in economic and social ethics February 10-11 - Louvain-la-Neuve - Hybrid mode On the occasion of the Hoover Chair in economic and social ethics’ 30th birthday, we decided to launch a new initiative aimed at bringing together the community of former...
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