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Résumé À l'occasion de la présentation du rapport « La coopération entre la France et le Royaume-Uni en Afrique, des capacités sous-utilisées » à l'Institut français des relations internationales (IFRI) le 3 novembre 2010, Tony Chafer et Gordon Cumming donnent leurs points de vue sur un demi-siècle de politique africaine de la France. Ils proposent une vision originale d'une Afrique en mutation et d'une France qui garde, à de nombreux égards, une vision passéiste de ces anciennes colonies.

Abstract
When libertarian political philosophy attracted wide public notice in the 1970s, a common view was that the distinctive individual rights advocated in libertarian theory required grounding in a theory of ethics. Recently, this view has come under challenge. It has been argued that resort to such grounding in ethical theory is unneeded. An appeal to common sense intuitions suffices to justify libertarianism. First, a brief account of libertarianism will be presented. Then, some examples of the older, pro-grounding position will be discussed. Then, the principal defense of the newer view, Michael Huemer's The Problem of Political Authority, will be examined. This discussion constitutes the substance of the present paper. The principal contention of the present article will be that the argument to libertarianism from intuitions does not succeed. In conclusion, it will be suggested that a return to the earlier, grounding view is indicated for philosophers who wish to defend libertarianism.

I would like to thank the organisers and the PIDE for giving
me the honour to present this year's Allama Iqbal Lecture on the subject
of Child Poverty and Economic Growth and the opportunity to talk to such
well-informed and distinguished audience. I believe that child poverty
and economic growth is a subject that is rarely discussed but I think it
is a crucial subject for the 21st century. I have only got a brief time
to talk to you, so I will only be able to skim over the surface of many
issues. If you want to go into a greater depth, there is a website for
the Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research, where you can
find more details about the issues to which I am going to
talk.

Ludwig von Mises argued that (1) economic calculation under socialism is impossible, & that (2) the lack of calculation would entail chaos & starvation. In these pages, Bryan Caplan has accepted the first claim but rejected the second, & has argued further that in real-world attempts to implement socialism, it was the lack of incentives, not the absence of economic calculation, that was responsible for economic chaos. I suggest, against Caplan's interpretation, that by "chaos," Mises meant the lack of calculation -- not some further state of affairs entailed by this lack. So interpreted, Mises's argument escapes the brunt of Caplan's criticisms. References. Adapted from the source document.