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This archive contains published site articles attributed to Daniel Sardá. The separate Thinkers section contains historical intellectual profiles, not publication contributors.
Fundamentals
Inheritance extends decisions about property beyond a person’s life, but it also raises questions about family, opportunity, and power. Understanding those tensions means separating the freedom to transfer, the choice to receive, and the rules that organize succession.
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Substantive due process asks not only how public power acted, but whether the content of a law or decision respects constitutional limits.
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An authority is not legitimate merely because it can enforce its decisions or act through laws. Its right to govern depends on a justification and on limits that protect people from arbitrary power.
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A usufruct lets someone use another person's asset and benefit from its fruits without acquiring full ownership. This guide explains its elements, limits, and key distinctions.
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A legal monopoly arises from exclusivity created or backed by public authority. Its legal origin alone does not establish state ownership or market power.
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A liberal society does not require identical citizens, but it does depend on certain public dispositions: respect for rights, tolerance, responsibility, and a willingness to live together under fair rules.
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A guide to how egalitarian liberalism, especially in John Rawls's work, seeks to reconcile equal liberties with just institutions.
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A general law establishes rules for open classes of people or cases. That structure makes tailored privileges and punishments harder, but it does not by itself make a law just.
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The bolívar is fiat money, but that label alone does not explain its value. Confidence, institutions, and purchasing power matter as well.
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Fiat money rests on a network of expectations, contracts, and rules. When that network loses credibility, a currency can weaken—though an institutional crisis does not automatically produce inflation.
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A credit crunch restricts access to borrowing or makes its terms more stringent. Understanding one requires looking beyond the total volume of credit.
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Protecting minorities requires equal rights, effective freedoms, and limits on power—without turning collective identity into an imposition.
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A risk premium compares the yield on one debt instrument with a benchmark. This guide explains its calculation, its drivers, and how to read it without jumping to conclusions.
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An oligopoly is a market in which a small number of significant firms make decisions while anticipating how their rivals may respond.
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Sound money aims to preserve money's usefulness through credible rules, predictability, and limits on arbitrary change.
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Freedom to work protects the ability to choose, accept, change, or leave a lawful occupation without coercion or arbitrary barriers.
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Social liberalism seeks to combine civil liberties and a market economy with institutions that expand people’s real opportunities.
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A guide to what distinguishes liberalism from conservatism, where they overlap, and why principles matter more than labels.
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State impartiality requires public authorities to decide on relevant criteria and reviewable reasons, free from favoritism, prejudice, and private interests.
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A clear introduction to the rule of law, its basic principles, and the signs that reveal whether it works in practice.
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The private sphere is the domain in which a person can make decisions, form relationships, and control access to personal information without being exposed by default.
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Disagreeing civilly does not mean staying silent, yielding, or approving someone else's ideas. It means sustaining conflict through reasons, rights, and shared rules.
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Civil rights protect liberty and legal security; political rights let people take part in shaping and holding power accountable. The distinction is useful, though the two categories reinforce one another in practice.
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A right of enjoyment can let someone benefit from an asset without holding every power of an owner. Its scope depends on the instrument that creates it and the law that applies.