March 14, 2018
A chat about libertarianism, pregnancy, and birth
[This chat was inspired by the realization that both Jessica Flanigan and I blog at BHL and both do work on pregnancy and birth but we hadn’t yet connected. So…
Posts filed under paternalism
November 03, 2015
Cinnabon, Caskets, Catfood, and the Tyranny of Experts
I had occasion recently to read some of Akerlof and Shiller’s new book Phishing for Phools. I found it, to be perfectly blunt, infuriating. The book is paternalistic. It assumes that free…
September 04, 2015
Helping the Global Poor with Charity that Works
Suppose you’re convinced by Peter Singer’s thought experiment, and believe that those of us in rich countries have a moral duty to help the global poor. How should we go…
June 19, 2014
Is Living on the Dole Bad For You?
As a proponent of a UBI, I often encounter some version of the surfer objection: what if some people who could work instead spend their entire income allowance on surfing or drinking or…