Posts by: Steve Horwitz
Art Carden and I have the monthly feature at Econlib: “Is Market Failure a Sufficient Condition for Government Intervention?” We think it’s a useful and accessible primer on why pointing out various forms of so-called “market failure” (e.g. negative externalities, public goods, etc.) are not an ipso facto argument for government intervention. It’s also [...]
As the Supreme Court takes up the same-sex marriage issue, I wanted to re-post an old blog post of mine from Liberty and Power back in September of 2008. Not only is it perhaps my favorite piece I’ve ever written on SSM, it seems to fit very nicely with the spirit of BHL. [...]
Discussion Questions du Jour
By Steve Horwitz On March 24, 2013 · 70 Comments · In A Bleeding Heart History of Libertarian Thought, Libertarianism
Suppose socialism had never become anything more than an intellectual movement, i.e., that no actual regime came to power calling itself socialist and putting into place policies and institutions it believed were socialist. What would classical liberalism/libertarianism look like today if that had been the way history unfolded? How much of the content, rhetoric, and [...]
BHL readers might be interested in joining the webinar I’m doing for the European Students for Liberty next Tuesday afternoon at 3pm EDT.
More than the Market: The Rest of Libertarianism Matters Too
Join us next week on March 26th for a webinar with Steve Horwitz (3:00PM-4:00PM Eastern Time/8:00PM-9:00PM Central European Time) over [...]
Back in June, I taped an episode of PBS’s “Scully: The World Show” as part of their “Free Market” series sponsored by the Montreal Economic Institute. That interview (all 30 minutes) is now up on the web for your enjoyment. It starts with Austrian economics and wanders into libertarianism.
The reaction to Sarah’s post on why libertarians don’t seem to put outrage about rape and the institutions that facilitate it and cover it up higher on their priority list triggered a great deal of interesting and disturbing commentary, much of it in the comments on Facebook links to the post. My own [...]
As Matt noted earlier, Sarah, Jason, and I will be doing a panel discussion on bleeding heart libertarianism at the International Students for Liberty Conference in Washington. That session takes place on Saturday morning Feb. 16 at 10:00am.
We will each speak for a few minutes about our respective takes on bleeding heart [...]
Is Britain’s Chief Orthodox Rabbi a Bleeding Heart Libertarian?
By Steve Horwitz On January 21, 2013 · 13 Comments · In Current Events, Libertarianism, Uncategorized
It sure sounds that way.
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks first came to my attention when he was quoted by Deirdre McCloskey in The Bourgois Virtues. Sacks once wrote: “It is through exchange that difference becomes a blessing, not a curse.” I still think that is one of the most beautiful expressions of basic economics that I’ve [...]
Our friends at the Foundation for Economic Education are happy to announce that applications for their summer seminars are now open. FEE has been doing summer seminars for decades and the topics below go beyond economics in their attempts to introduce students to the ideas of classical liberalism. You can also apply to be an [...]
James Buchanan, the Nobel Prize winning economist and my former professor, has died at 93. There is much that one can say about him, not the least of which is that he was still intellectually sharp and active into his 90s. In short: he changed the face of economics and politics and advanced [...]
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