June 17, 2015
Bryan Caplan on “the incredible vanishing minarchist”
Here. I certainly think he’s broadly right: the median libertarian is less absolutist than when Bryan and I argued about minarchy and anarchy back in the stone age of the…
Author: Jacob T. Levy
June 15, 2015
“Corps Intermédiaires, Civil Society, and the Art of Association”
That’s my new paper at NBER. In it I boil down (and render a bit more systematic) some of the ideas in Rationalism, Pluralism, and Freedom in order to put…
June 01, 2015
Of possible interest to the Unconditional Basic Income fans around here
Eroding Capitalism: A Comment on Stuart White’s ‘Basic Capital in the Egalitarian Toolkit’ Erik Olin Wright Abstract Stuart White argues [in this accompanying article, “Basic Capital in the Egalitarian Toolkit”…
May 13, 2015
Today in the land of Magna Carta
“Liberty is the right to do everything the laws permit.” Montesquieu “[U]nder the Rule of Law the government is prevented from stultifying individual efforts by ad hoc action. Within the…
April 28, 2015
Folk ideal theory in action
“People aren’t supposed to burn buildings, destroy property, trash cars, break windows, or vandalize buildings, so when I see those things happen I immediately know that I can criticize them…
April 10, 2015
Book reviews and offer
I’m grateful for this thoughtful and generous review of Rationalism, Pluralism, and Freedom by political theorist Melissa Schwartzberg (NYU) in the virtual pages of The New Rambler, the valuable new…