April 25, 2012
The Geolibertarian Ethics of Land Rent
I coined the term “geolibertarian” in 1981 to designate the branch of libertarian philosophy which deems the natural rent to equally belong to human beings. Public finance theory prescribes land…
Month: April 2012
April 24, 2012
Comments on Hillel Steiner’s Essay on Rights
Note: the following is a review of Hillel Steiner’s Essay on Rights that was originally published in the Canadian Journal of Philosophy, vol. 26, no. 2 (June, 1996), pp. 283-302….
April 24, 2012
Left-Libertarianism and the Ownership of Natural Resources
To start off: Why should libertarians be bothered about, specifically, rights to natural resources?[1. This paper is a slightly revised version of a paper first published in Public Reason 1…
April 23, 2012
Natural Rights and Natural Stuff
Since there are many different sorts of approaches to libertarianism – including many different sorts of moral approaches – there are many different sorts of routes to the topic of…
April 23, 2012
Introduction to the Symposium on Libertarianism and Land
Welcome to the Bleeding Heart Libertarians symposium on “Libertarianism and Land!” The symposium will run from today, Monday April 23rd, through Friday April 27th. Each day of the symposium will…
April 22, 2012
More on Voluntary Taxes
My previous post on taxation generated a number of comments, many of them focusing on worries about coordination problems and free riding. Over at Big Think, Will Wilkinson makes a…