July 09, 2012
Positive Liberties and Legal Guarantees
This is an old post from last year, but it is appropriate again: We often equate freedom with an absence of constraints, impediments, or interference. For instance, you have free…
Year: 2012
July 09, 2012
Libertarianism, Freedom, and Coercion
Bertram, Robin and Gourevitch (BRG) don’t think that libertarianism takes seriously enough the ways in which workers’ freedom is restricted in a capitalist economy. Jason Brennan thinks that BRG misunderstand the sort of libertarianism…
July 07, 2012
Cruelty and power
I’m mostly offline for a while so I won’t be taking part in the labor discussions for a while yet. I haven’t had time to properly think about Kevin Vallier’s…
July 06, 2012
My Bottom Line on Worker Freedom
Bertram and company’s criticisms of BHL have gotten some attention. Some of my fellow BHLs think their arguments are important. I’m not as impressed. I think their arguments miss the…
July 06, 2012
Why Are Employers So Mean?
Chris Bertram, Corey Robin and Alex Gourevitch have given us a lot to think about in their recent essay at Crooked Timber. There’s a lot I want to say about it. Rather than…
July 06, 2012
Josh Chafetz Defends Academic Con Law
Before the ACA decision, I wrote this cynical take on academic con law. Josh Chafetz at Cornell Law School sent me the following reply in an email, which he gave…