Week in Review – Vol. 1 No. 7 | Sunwater Institute

Blog

Be sure to listen to Parts One and Two of our Congressional Reform Conversation featuring Yuval Levin. He is a Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). Levin studies civil society, conservatism, political philosophy and the U.S. Constitution.

Rights & Liberties

Sunwater scholar, Joseph Kochanek, hosts a series on the Federalist Papers to discuss what our founders thought at the time they were written, and relates these concepts to the present day. In Federalist 7, Hamilton described the ways in which boundary disputes, commercial competition, and disagreements about the disposition of the public debt could lead to quarrels among the states. Here you can find Federalist No. 7.

Property, Markets, Trade

Sunwater Institute’s scholar, Robert Gmeiner, has co-authored an article published in the International Review of Law and Economics: Encouraging domestic innovation by protecting foreign intellectual property.

Group Decision Making

Sunwater Institute’s scholar, Ani Harutyunyan, has co-authored an article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America: Dynamical system model predicts when social learners impair collective performance.

Sunwater’s Good Read

Nation on the Take: How Big Money Corrupts Our Democracy and What We Can Do About It by Wendell Potter and Nick Penniman

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