October 25, 2013
Further Stuff on Extreme A Priori Economics; Marxists, Too?
I had to travel last night and was busy today, but it seems I set off a firestorm, and Tom “Learn Real History and Economics” Woods is especially annoyed with me. Some…
Author: Jason Brennan
October 23, 2013
A Knock-Down Argument against the Free Market
I have to announce today my apostasy from bleeding heart libertarianism. As of now, I am a bleeding heart socialist instead. You see, I recently became aware of a knock-down…
October 23, 2013
Extreme Austrian Apriorism as the No True Scotsman Fallacy
UPDATE: Tom “There’s an Anti-Rothbard Cult”* Woods claims to have refuted my criticism here. Judge for yourself. I was at a conference a few years ago on Austrian vs. Chicago-school…
October 19, 2013
Yetter on Vallier on the Reasonableness of Theism
Richard Yetter-Chappell responds to Kevin’s post here. I’ll quote the bulk of it: Some kind of minimal deism (motivated by the cosmological argument) seems reasonable enough. But (as I’ve previously noted) it’s…
October 17, 2013
Defending Democracy by Denigrating the Social Sciences? Careful with That.
There’s a symposium at Cato Unbound on Ilya Somin‘s new book on voter ignorance. I’m especially interested in this critique: http://www.cato-unbound.org/2013/10/16/sean-trende/dont-voters-get-things-right In response to the claim that voters are extremely ignorant, especially…