From the monthly archives: April 2012
Jason Brennan writes
Social justice is a moral standard by which some people judge political and economic institutions. Advocates of social justice believe the moral justification of our institutions depends on how well these institutions serve the interests of the poor and least advantaged. The basic institutions of society must sufficiently benefit all, [...]
My colleague David Levy recently alerted me to a discussion in Rawls’s Lectures on the History of Political Philosophy (2007, p. 162) on the intellectual relationship between economists and philosophers. As Rawls points out Hume and Smith were both utilitarian philosophers and economists, and the same is true for Bentham, James Mill, John Stuart Mill and [...]
In an earlier post, I gave the following generic definition of social justice:
Social justice is a moral standard by which some people judge political and economic institutions. Advocates of social justice believe the moral justification of our institutions depends on how well these institutions serve the interests of the poor and least advantaged. The [...]
The Conversation at Cato Unbound
By Matt Zwolinski On April 30, 2012 · 6 Comments · In A Bleeding Heart History of Libertarian Thought, Libertarianism, Social Justice
My final contribution to the conversation at Cato Unbound is now up.
Here, from the Cato Unbound site, is the complete index of the discussion. Peruse at your leisure!
Lead Essay A Bleeding Heart History of Libertarianism by Matt Zwolinski and John Tomasi
Matt [...]
BHL’s & UBI’s
By Jessica Flanigan On April 30, 2012 · 116 Comments · In Liberalism, Libertarianism, Social Justice
I support a Universal Basic Income (UBI), and I think that other libertarians ought to as well. Earlier, Jason sketched the difference between ‘hard libertarians’ and BHL, but didn’t give a specific definition and argument for social justice, as David Friedman then pointed out. Friedman also said that BHL’s don’t say what [...]
No Alternative to Public Revenue from Land Rent
By Fred Foldvary On April 27, 2012 · 32 Comments · In Economics, Libertarianism, Symposium on Libertarianism and Land, Uncategorized
Finer points aside, nobody has offered a specific and coherent and realistic more efficient and equitable alternative for public revenue than land rent or land value.
Some dude name Todd Seavey thinks bleeding heart libertarianism is evil. See here and here. I’ve read those two posts a few times, and my most charitable reconstruction of his argument against BHL goes as follows:
Therefore, BHL is wrong and evil. [From 1-3.]
From his posts, I can [...]
Land From The Ground Up
By David Schmidtz On April 27, 2012 · 11 Comments · In Academic Philosophy, Libertarianism, Symposium on Libertarianism and Land
Our days are a vast, intricate, evolving dance of mutual understandings.1 We stop at a traffic light, offer a plastic card as payment for a meal, leave our weapons at home, or enter a voting booth. We live and work in close proximity, at high speed, with few collisions: on our roads and [...]
On Burdens, Community, and Provisos
By Eric Mack On April 26, 2012 · 3 Comments · In Left-libertarianism, Libertarianism, Symposium on Libertarianism and Land
First, I would like to thank all those commentators who responded to what I wrote in “Natural Rights and Natural Stuff.” Second, I would like to clarify or restate a few of the basic points that I sought to make in that contribution.
To begin with, I did [...]
I may be writing under false pretenses. Although I was invited here to make a case for the “occupancy-and-use” or usufructory land property theory of P.J. Proudhon, J.K. Ingalls and Benjamin Tucker, I’m going to devote most of this article to what it has in common with other libertarian [...]
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