Against Social Justice

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…

Rawls on Economists and Philosophers

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…

Zeroing In on “Social Justice”

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…

BHL’s & UBI’s

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…