June 11, 2012
Giving a Damn: The Missing Ethics in Political Philosophy
[Editor’s Note: This essay is part of a symposium on John Tomasi’s Free Market Fairness. For an introduction to the symposium, click here. For a list of all posts in…
Year: 2012
June 11, 2012
Introduction to the Symposium on John Tomasi’s Free Market Fairness
Welcome to the Bleeding Heart Libertarians symposium on John Tomasi’s Free Market Fairness! The symposium will run from today, Monday June 11th, through Monday June 18th. Each day this week will feature…
June 09, 2012
Can there be an agentic public choice theory?
This article by Randall Holcombe suggests that “the public chocie revolution has been stopped short of total victory” “because the lessons of public choice are ignored by policy makers and…
June 09, 2012
Why Sweatshop Jobs Are Worth Defending – A Short Response to Long
Roderick Long raises some important concerns about my defense of sweatshops. I’m short on time, preparing for the symposium on John Tomasi’s book next week, but I wanted to get…
June 09, 2012
Why Libertarians Should Oppose Sweatshops
I have no quarrel with Matt’s central thesis – namely, that eliminating sweatshops without changing anything else would be bad for the poor. But I think an analysis of sweatshops…
June 08, 2012
Three Reasons Sweatshops Are Good for the Poor
My newest video at LearnLiberty.org is up now, on sweatshops and the poor. Obviously, there are a lot of complexities that I wasn’t able to go into in a 5…