July 17, 2013
Against the Living Wage/”Subsidy” Arguments
Suppose, on a reasonably competitive market, that Bob’s labor is worth at most $1/hr to any potential employer. (Suppose that this is the best Bob will be able to produce…
Month: July 2013
July 15, 2013
Care Ethics and Libertarianism?: What Libertarianism Should Gain From Care Ethics
In a previous post, I rehearsed some reasons why I think care ethics might be best actualized in society through markets. I will expand on those reasons in a future…
July 13, 2013
Celebrate Another iRadvent!
Warning: shameless puffery ensues (on a quarterly basis). The third issue of the Molinari Institute’s left-libertarian market-anarchist magazine The Industrial Radical has been published, featuring articles by Less Antman, Jason…
July 11, 2013
The GOP Farm Bill
On another note: The Republican-controlled House just passed a Farm Bill that spends more on agricultural subsidies (an especially deplorable form of corporate welfare) than does the Democratic Senate Bill or Obama’s…
July 11, 2013
Bleeding-Heart Kansas
There’s an article in the Washington Post on the… divergence of views and attitudes among libertarians with respect to the Civil War. Our own Steve Horwitz is quoted. There’s a…
July 11, 2013
Hayek and Pinochet, A Discussion Deferred For Now
I have started putting together my next post responding to Corey Robin’s Hayek scholarship, this time concerning Robin’s claims about Hayek’s views on Pinochet. I have to say that I’ve…