The workshop will consider the questions: What is human nature? Are there innate, hierarchical, human needs and motivations? Have they transformed? What are the social-political implications? Over seventy years ago Abraham Maslow submitted "A Theory of Human Motivation" (1943). His subsequent pyramid-shape hierarchy of needs…
This workshop will assemble a set of papers on text analysis and political economy, with the goal of seeing whether legal and political institutions, as embodied in text, have measureable socio-economic outcomes.
