December 11, 2013
Bleg: Help Me Come Up with Some Labels
I’m now writing book #7, Against Politics, for Princeton University Press. In it, as part of a critique of the “educative argument for democracy” (the thesis that democracy ennobles us or…
Month: December 2013
December 10, 2013
A Libertarian Mungerfesto, Part II: Voluntary Exchange, Euvoluntary Exchange, and the Case for Cooperation.
(A prefatory note: Most of the references are omitted. This is a summary, not an academic paper. Some of the argument here is adapted from Guzman and Munger, 2013) …
December 10, 2013
Morning links
Bruce Bartlett at economix on the basic income, with some discussion of Jessica’s post here and Matt’s paper in Basic Income Studies. On a different topic: Nelson Mandela’s shift on markets;…
December 09, 2013
Immigration, Eugenics, and the Minimum Wage
A few months ago, I was reading a fascinating paper by Thomas Leonard on “Eugenics and Economics in the Progressive Era.” The paper is full of interesting tidbits, but I…
December 09, 2013
The Dialectical Impotence of the Non-Aggression Principle, Redux
Walter Block* defines the non-aggression axiom (sometimes called the non-aggression principle, or NAP for short) as follows: It states, simply, that it shall be legal for anyone to do anything he…
December 08, 2013
A Libertarian Mungerfesto: In Five Parts
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels famously wrote “A Communist Manifesto” in anticipation of an imminent earthquake in world politics. Of course, in 1848, that seemed plausible. A number of people…