Human Freedom, Habits and Justice

Freedom and Human Dignity

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Editorial: Habits: plasticity, learning and freedom

" During much of our waking lives, we act according to our habits, from the time we rise and go through our morning routines until we fall asleep after evening routines. Taken in this way, habits have long attracted the interest of philosophers and psychologists, and they have been alternatively praised and cursed. " This is a passage extracted from a highly cited article by Ann Graybiel, one o...

Freedom, Justice, and Neglected Tropical Diseases

Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are remediable injustices of our times. Poverty is the starting point, and the ultimate outcome, of NTDs. Much about poverty is evident enough, but considering poverty as simply low income is insufficient [2]. In the context of NTDs, poverty should be seen as the relative deprivation of freedoms and capabilities dictating a lack of opportunities and choices in...

Financial Freedom and Socially Responsible Market Economy: An Analysis from Rawls’s Theory of Justice

Using Rawls's theory of justice, this paper addresses the empirical question of whether the socially responsible market economy can help explain the current situation in financial freedom, as well as its recent variation across countries. Utilizing annual data from selected countries of Middle East, North Africa, Asia and Oceania, and static panel estimation techniques, we provide evidence whic...

Democracy in the light of Freedom and Justice