Having spent a lot of time explaining why we should allow prices to move freely during emergencies, I have found that people sympathetic to “anti-gouging” laws will sometimes concede the…
Moral intuitions are not often, and may be almost never, arrived at through reason. That may be a problem, when economic institutions evolve faster than our moral intuitions.
Much has been written about Jonathan Haidt’s work on the psychology of political identity and the ways in which libertarians differ from liberals and conservatives. He found, among other things,…
Four short and one more substantial response to comments on my last post. 1. I don’t know of any existing government that shouldn’t be downsized and I doubt there will…
Libertarians regularly argue about the relationship between their political commitments and their “moral views.” The disagreement seems to proceed by answers to two questions. 1. Do libertarian political commitments imply…
I have claimed in a number of my recent posts that libertarians have failed to recognize the potential for authoritarianism in their refusal to submit their property claims to the…