March 17, 2011
David Schmidtz on Scarcity, Equality, and Justice
David Schmidtz is one of the best. Here is a video designed to get people thinking.
Month: March 2011
March 17, 2011
Two Links
Here are a couple of links of liberaltarian interest: – Radley Balko at Reason Magazine on forensics reform. If you're not already following Radley's work, you should be. His journalistic…
March 16, 2011
Inequality and Nozickian Historical Justice
I’d like to summarise here a point I make at greater length in my piece “Left-Libertarianism, Class Conflict, and Historical Theories of Distributive Justice.” In Anarchy, State, and Utopia, Robert…
March 16, 2011
Daffodils, and the Incredible Rarity of Voluntary Exchange
In the comments section on my earlier post “It’s Not Just About Markets” (the “it”, by the way, refers to libertarianism) Dan Kervick wrote “…since voluntary exchange is a routine…
March 16, 2011
Symbolic Politics is Morally Repugnant
In textbook neoclassical economics, the minimum wage is expected to cause unemployment among the least productive workers. Various economists from a wide range of ideological backgrounds dispute this. Perhaps I…