Putting the science in Social Sciences

Mapping across psychology, economics, religion, ethics, politics, but also art, history….

Economics: From Marxism to Markets

• What did Adam Smith say?
• "Helicopter drops of money" Keynes or Friedman?
• Serfdom
• What's the right rate of tax?
• Should poor people be able to stop rich people leaving the country?

Education

• What is school for?
• What is university for?
  • Who should go, who should pay?
• What should we teach in school?
• Should private schools be banned, or should they ALL be private (or is the status-quo OK)?
• Why should governments do research?
• Should governments develop commercial properties, like drugs?

Ethics: From Singer to …

• "Giving: how much is enough?"
• Should you be your brother's keeper?

Psychology

• Blank Slate?
• Universal human nature?
• A good life?
• Differences because people are different?

Politics

• Why is democracy needed?
• Does the choice of politics matter?

Religion

• What's left if you take the god our of religion? Nothing, or most everything?
• Can a society be moral if it is Godless? How?

Sociology

• Post modernism to evolutionary psychology
• Fashion models and bodies
• Does SES matter?
• Social mobility: What allows it?
• Meritocracy or Cleptocracy?

Art

• What is art?
• What is it for?

See also Differential Club