James writes that “(2) being in favor of markets does not mean that one favors everything that businesses engage in to enhance their profitability.” This is clearly right. Adam Smith, famously, argued…
Part of the goal of this blog is to encurage dialogue between libertarians and those on the political left. I think this important partly because I believe these two groups…
Sometimes when people hear I’m a libertarian they say “So, you’re in favor of corporations running the world?” or “But markets won’t solve everything!” Perhaps this identification of libertarianism with…
I recently discussed whether libertarians are “callous”. In my first post, I said I am a neoclassical liberal, not a libertarian, in part because social justice plays a prominent role…
Everyone seems to agree that progressives care about social justice, and the conversation has so far been about the different ways in which libertarians, too, care about social justice. But…
Over at Econlog, Bryan Caplan responds to Jason’s query about why libertarians are so often seen as callous with another possible explanation: libertarians, he says, are “relatively unafraid to ……