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Reading Groups

August 16, 2013

does not say in response, “Compared to what?” On the second, it is oftentimes maintained that economic equality can be sustained only at the cost of interfering with the liberties…

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…

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…

PPE Salons

March 25, 2021

…https://ppe.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1340/2021/03/4-2-wpv_x.png Is Free Speech under Threat on College Campuses? https://ppe.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1340/2021/03/2-2-wpv_x.png Bitcoin: What Does the Future Hold? https://ppe.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1340/2021/09/Copy-of-PPE-Salon-Ads-2-wpv_x.png Afghanistan and American Foreign Policy: What Does the Future Hold? https://ppe.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1340/2021/11/FBI-Facebook-Cover-Facebook-Cover-2-wpv_x.png How Responsible…

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…

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!

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/  …

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/  …

A New Student Podcast: Pit Perspectives

September 20, 2022

…relevant social issues facing college students at UNC and across the country. Pit Perspectives started with an observation- at a school as large as UNC, students tend to form small…