Robert J Rafalko
Biographic Data
| ID | 700336 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert J Rafalko |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert J |
| FAMILY NAME | Rafalko |
| SIGNATURE | RAFALKO R J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina Wilmington |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Corporate Punishment
The question of whether some form of punishment is appropriate and warranted for corporations that break the law centers around two chief issues. The first issue is the corporation a moral agent that can be punished? The second issue concerns the justice and effectiveness of punishment of corporations which have broken the law. Corporate punishment based on – rectification, rehabilitation, and deterrence – do have meaningful applications. While c…
Henry George's Labor Theory of Value: He Saw the Entrepreneurs and Workers as Employers of Capital and Land, and Not the Reverse
Henry George, the 19th century American economist and social philosopher, saw the problem of protecting the working peoples' wages and Jobs one of distributive justice. He attacked as fallacious the idea that equality of opportunity to work was a "privilege" accorded to labor. The protectionist system, he held, was based on the antidemocratic notion that "the many are called to serve and the few to rule." The paternalism of protection, whether in…
Henry George and the Contemporary Debate over Industrial Protectionism
The central question of Henry George's 1886 book. Protection or Free Trade, commemorated now after a century, was: do protectionist policies help or hinder the working man Have George's concerns in 1886 since become outdated or anachronistic? If not, what are some historic trends toward protectionism since that time? Some of the formal arguments for and against protectionism are examined. George contended that protectionism threatens labor unions…
Was George a Dreamer or a Realist: Steven Cord's Book, Back in Print, Answers Marx's Taunt, Updates George's Ideas
The republication of Steven Cord's Henry George: Dreamer or Realist? makes available once more a work which dealt with insight and depth of analysis with the misconceptions, factual inaccuracies and offhand dismissals of the American economist and social philosopher's theories. Although he alienated many in the academic community, George attracted many leading scholars in it to significant research on basic problems of our times
On Terror
Very little has been written on the subject of terrorism from a philosophical viewpoint. What little exists generally presuposes terrorism to be either senseless brutality or romanticized heroism. We argue that it is neither. Many writers conflate terrorism with either revolutionary or criminal activity. We contend that it is a separate and recent phenomenon, defining terrorism as violence directed, as a matter of political strategy, against inno…
On Terror
Very little has been written on the subject of terrorism from a philosophical viewpoint. What little exists generally presuposes terrorism to be either senseless brutality or romanticized heroism. We argue that it is neither. Many writers conflate terrorism with either revolutionary or criminal activity. We contend that it is a separate and recent phenomenon, defining terrorism as violence directed, as a matter of political strategy, against inno…
On Terror
Very little has been written on the subject of terrorism from a philosophical viewpoint. What little exists generally presuposes terrorism to be either senseless brutality or romanticized heroism. We argue that it is neither. Many writers conflate terrorism with either revolutionary or criminal activity. We contend that it is a separate and recent phenomenon, defining terrorism as violence directed, as a matter of political strategy, against inno…
Was George a Dreamer or a Realist: Steven Cord's Book, Back in Print, Answers Marx's Taunt, Updates George's Ideas
The republication of Steven Cord's Henry George: Dreamer or Realist? makes available once more a work which dealt with insight and depth of analysis with the misconceptions, factual inaccuracies and offhand dismissals of the American economist and social philosopher's theories. Although he alienated many in the academic community, George attracted many leading scholars in it to significant research on basic problems of our times
Henry George and the Contemporary Debate over Industrial Protectionism
The central question of Henry George's 1886 book. Protection or Free Trade, commemorated now after a century, was: do protectionist policies help or hinder the working man Have George's concerns in 1886 since become outdated or anachronistic? If not, what are some historic trends toward protectionism since that time? Some of the formal arguments for and against protectionism are examined. George contended that protectionism threatens labor unions…
Henry George's Labor Theory of Value: He Saw the Entrepreneurs and Workers as Employers of Capital and Land, and Not the Reverse
Henry George, the 19th century American economist and social philosopher, saw the problem of protecting the working peoples' wages and Jobs one of distributive justice. He attacked as fallacious the idea that equality of opportunity to work was a "privilege" accorded to labor. The protectionist system, he held, was based on the antidemocratic notion that "the many are called to serve and the few to rule." The paternalism of protection, whether in…
Corporate Punishment
The question of whether some form of punishment is appropriate and warranted for corporations that break the law centers around two chief issues. The first issue is the corporation a moral agent that can be punished? The second issue concerns the justice and effectiveness of punishment of corporations which have broken the law. Corporate punishment based on – rectification, rehabilitation, and deterrence – do have meaningful applications. While c…
Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Criminology (3 works) · Law and economics (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · George (robot) (2 works) · Market economy (2 works) · Paternalism (2 works)