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PPE Courses

July 31, 2023

…competition, scarcity, opportunity cost, resource allocation, unemployment, inflation, and the determination of prices. Honors version available. Offered This Semester: Yes Section: 002 Credits: 3 Grading: Letter Gen Ed: FY-LAUNCH (only…

Reading Groups

August 16, 2013

…policies should be determined by cost-benefit analysis, as such analysis might be subject to rights-based limitations. The Cost-Benefit Revolution also includes discussions of particular issues, like the role of courts,…

Congratulations, Professor Jen Morton!

November 1, 2020

Please join us in congratulating PPE Professor Jen Morton, whose book, Moving Up Without Losing Your Way: The Ethical Cost of Upward Mobility (Princeton University Press), has just been awarded…

New Video: Games, Public Policy, and the Pandemic

April 20, 2020

*** Video of the conversation is available HERE. *** Games, Public Policy, and the Pandemic A strikingly large number of Americans are now subject to shelter-in-place orders. Many will turn…

Opportunities

November 10, 2017

…will be provided and the cost of dinner will be covered. Each group will meet eight times over the course of the semester for approximately an hour and a half…

PPE Videos

July 2, 2016

available on WiPhi Open Access Philosophy. Anomaly’s “What Are Public Goods?,” “Collective Action Problems,” and “Can Greed Be Rational?” are available here and Sayre-McCord’s “The Prisoner’s Dilemma” is available here….

Working Groups

August 26, 2019

…a project relevant to Philosophy, Politics & Economics. Most materials will be provided (you will need your own laptop) and the cost of dinner will be covered. The group will…

Five New PPE Faculty in 2021!

September 16, 2021

…from Queen’s University in Canada. Erik’s primary research interests are in normative ethics and practical normativity, including the ethics of interpersonal trade-offs, the ethics of risk-impositions, promissory obligations, the nature…

Congratulations, Phi Beta Kappa Inductees!

April 14, 2022

…chapters and alumni associations across the country raise and distribute more than $1 million in awards, scholarships and prizes benefiting high schools and college students. More information here: https://www.unc.edu/posts/2022/04/12/unc-chapel-hill-inducts-236-into-elite-honorary-society/  …

Congratulations, Phi Beta Kappa Inductees!

October 29, 2021

…chapters and alumni associations across the country raise and distribute more than $1 million in awards, scholarships and prizes benefiting high schools and college students. More information here: https://www.unc.edu/posts/2021/10/29/unc-chapel-hill-inducts-223-students-into-phi-beta-kappa/  …