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My friend and colleague-of-sorts (at USD’s Institute for Law and Philosophy) Richard Arneson has revised the entry on “Egalitarianism” at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. I think many readers of BHL will find the essay to be of great interest. Arneson is a sharp philosopher, and while he’s no [...]
At ThinkMarkets, Roger Koppl argues that Income Inequality Matters.
Some excerpts:
The surprise should be that we pro-market types have not spoken up more on this central issue, thereby letting it become associated almost exclusively with more or less “progressive” opinion. This indifference to income distribution is all the more mysterious because pro-market [...]
For those just tuning in, the latest libertarian internet dust up surrounds Julie Borowski’s video about why there are not more libertarian women. In it, she argues that women are not libertarians in part because libertarianism is kinda dorky and women care more than men about acceptance. When I first saw the video, [...]
Human Capitalism’s Inconvenient Implications
By Brink Lindsey On October 9, 2012 · 45 Comments · In Book/Article Reviews, Current Events, Economics
The argument I make in Human Capitalism (see this prior post for a quick summary) raises uncomfortable questions across the ideological spectrum – and the corresponding philosophical spectrum as well. I’ll start by reviewing how my analysis confounds some of the prevailing assumptions of both libertarians and [...]
Human Capitalism
By Brink Lindsey On October 8, 2012 · 38 Comments · In Book/Article Reviews, Current Events, Economics
Thanks to the folks at Bleeding Heart Libertarians for inviting me to blog here about my new e-book Human Capitalism: How Economic Growth Has Made Us Smarter – and More Unequal (Princeton University Press). This is a work of empirical analysis, not political philosophy, but I think it raises [...]
I just finished listening to Elizabeth Anderson’s Dewey Lecture in Law and Philosophy at the University of Chicago, on “Tom Paine and the Ironies of Social Democracy.” It’s a great lecture, and I highly recommend it to BHL readers (along with her recent interview in 3:AM here). The thesis [...]
On Inequality
By Fernando Teson On January 28, 2012 · 40 Comments · In Current Events, Libertarianism, Social Justice
President Obama said in his State of the Union that one of his goals is to reduce wealth inequality, and advocated increased taxes on the rich to do that. His critics gave two answers. The first is that higher taxes will stymie growth, and the second is that the President is waging class [...]
Thanks to being linked on reddit a few months ago, my LearnLiberty video on the gender wage gap is now close to 300,000 views on YouTube. The video was one of four designed to rebut commonly held economic myths. In this case, the myth is that women earn 75% of what men do [...]
A common theme among the Occupy Wall Street crowd and its supporters is that inequality in the United States has skyrocketed over the last thirty years. Often, statistics about increasing inequality – and income inequality in particular - are put forward as examples of self-evident injustice. In this post, I want to suggest that things [...]
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