This also shows up in Schumpeter’s discussion of elite overproduction. Highly trained people whose expectations are frustrated work to undermine the institutions they lost under. I think this generalizes to Hobbes’ view that when things are going well people think “I could do better”

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No, I had never heard of it! Sounds interesting though. I would love to see more reasoning from complexity in liberal theory. And more democratic philosophy that doesn’t just announce what the majority will choose.

Gaus’ Tyranny of the Ideal and The Open Society and its Complexities.

I also like my Social Contract for a Diverse World

The liberal acknowledges and lives comfortably among many incommensurable status games. The authoritarian is intent on reducing them all down to one.

On Liberty. Really nicely written for a broad audience, has a lot of great ideas, and is obviously relevant.

We have an incredibly vibrant and supportive academic community. Tons of opportunities for ambitious students. And Buffalo is a great city with tons of amenities, all of which a grad student can afford. UB PPE is very tough to beat!

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Not sure about the academic job market, and want to have some industry options as well? UB has a *100%* placement rate into high-paying industry jobs for those who want them.

Want a lot of opportunities for talking philosophy and developing your projects? We have more talks and workshops than you can shake a stick at. We have reading groups galore. And we have the resources to support graduate students who present at conferences.

Concerned about professionalization, both in terms of learning the process of publishing academic articles and giving presentations? We have weekly sessions about this with our graduate students, with ample opportunities to refine these skills.

Our undergraduate and graduate students all have many opportunities for impactful projects in the community. Not sure how to start? This can all be supported by the PPE group's full-time Community Engagement Coordinator.

Maybe you are interested in more community-engaged philosophy. We have 4 talks a year as part of our Local Leader speaker series. We hold community deliberative forums with many community civic partners. We hold other outreach events to facilitate two-way learning between UB and the community.

Interested in learning about XPhi, and doing either lab-based experiments or developing philosophically-minded surveys? Aside from all of the faculty and postdocs, how about a lab manager to facilitate that work, and significant grant funding to help support it?

Before we even consider our many partners in other departments, we have FIVE top faculty who specialize in PPE. Then we have many other faculty in the department whose work nicely complements and enhances PPE training.