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Barack Obama’s Political Philosophy
By Fernando Teson On May 21, 2013 · 9 Comments · In Academic Philosophy, Current Events, Democracy, Economics, Liberalism, Libertarianism, Liberty
(Author’s note: this is a post about ideas, not politics. It is unrelated to current events. It simply examines the philosophical views expressed by our Chief Executive.)
In a number of speeches, the President has outlined his views on the legitimacy of government. Following the Tea Party success in 2010, he resolutely responded to those [...]
Libertarians and Human Rights
By Fernando Teson On May 14, 2013 · 9 Comments · In Academic Philosophy, Current Events, Economics, Libertarianism, Liberty, Rights Theory
In a recent post, Bas van der Vossen urges libertarians to think more about human rights. I agree, so I write this commentary in the spirit of a friendly amendment.
I think it is important at the outset to distinguish two spheres of endeavor. The first is the academic study of human rights; [...]
The Nation has just published a piece by BHL’s old friend Corey Robin where Robin tries to draw a significant connection between Austrian economics’ view of economic value and Nietzsche’s far broader value skepticism (also see Robin’s CT post here). The upshot, from what I can tell, is that Austrians are [...]
Over at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Lisa Herzog has written a very nice entry on “markets” that will likely be of interest to readers of this blog. In particular, section three provides a very helpful overview of some of the most common and influential arguments for and against markets. [...]
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 [...]
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.
Arts and Letters Daily recently linked to this essay by economist John Quiggin arguing that Keynes’s old ideal of the 15-hour working week is both within our economic grasp and a morally desirable ideal that advanced nations should promote. Quiggin, for those of you who are not aware, is a well-known [...]
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 [...]
On this blog, I’ve sometimes defended Hayek against unfair attacks (see here, here and here). And I’ve recently read that Brad DeLong has repeated the falsehood that Hayek understood himself to be arguing that “regulatory intervention was in the long run incompatible with a free society,” in [...]
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