July 11, 2014
Public Roads and the Right to Immiserate Would-Be Immigrants
In a previous post, I argued against the claim that nations closing their borders is equivalent to a person choosing not to let poor Haitians camp on her lawn. One…
Month: July 2014
July 11, 2014
Is a Nation a House?
Closed border advocates sometimes make the following argument: You aren’t obligated to let poor Haitians live in your house or camp on your lawn. Even though they desperately need your help…
July 10, 2014
Why Not Close Even More Borders?
The main arguments for closed borders are: Immigrants will cause crime Immigrants will lower domestic wages Immigrants are less cultured or educated; or will sully our culture. Immigrants are poor…
July 09, 2014
Can We Pay You $25 to Think of a Better Title for Our Paper?
Peter Jaworski and I recently had a paper accepted at Ethics on the question of commodification. (This paper is part of our larger project, Markets without Limits.) In the paper, we attack what…
July 09, 2014
The Dominance Argument for Capitalism
In the past 30 years at least, we’ve seen that arguments about markets vs. socialism in philosophy inevitably turn to arguments about the methodology of philosophy. In particular, we see…
July 08, 2014
There’s No Such Thing as a Closed-Borders Libertarian
Sometimes you’ll hear people who are generally free market friendly make statements like the following: “I support open borders in principle, but we can’t have both free immigration and a…