May 25, 2013
Fearing Freedom
James Buchanan was one of the most philosophical economists of his generation, and he had a deep commitment to the classical liberal world-view. But he also identified serious challenges that…
Author: Peter Boettke
April 30, 2012
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…
April 16, 2012
Baboons Build Their Own Cages, Don’t They?
I wasn’t much of a student in HS and before — my attentions were directed elsewhere — but I had a few highlight moments where the material and ideas being…
April 10, 2012
Occupy the Mind — Nozick Edition. It ain’t ideology, it’s institutional analysis
On p. 272 of Anarchy, State and Utopia, Nozick writes the following: Economically well-off persons desire greater political power, in a nonminimal state, because they can sue this power to…
April 09, 2012
Modern Libertarianism — Robert Nozick Process Theorist
Today we will be discussing the contributions of Robert Nozick to modern social philosophy and political economy. It is my impression, perhaps wrong, that most philosophers and political theorists focus…
March 07, 2012
Question to the Non-Ideal Theorists of Justice — What Do You Think of Henry Hazlitt?
I am in the midst of finishing off a draft of a paper on Henry Hazlitt for a conference at Duke next month. The conference is on the Economist as…