Bertram wrote this. Caplan just wrote this.* Caplan employs a common argumentative tactic. The left will often make certain arguments trying to show why we should limit economic liberty. However,…
We might want to say a person has full ownership in some object X iff she has: A right to exclude others from using X. A right to use X….
Chris Bertram writes: What’s wrong with an employer saying to an employee (who needs the job, has bills to pay and kids to feed): “If you want to keep your…
Most societies valorize soldiers. Such social norms cause the following effects, among others: It increases the benefits of being a soldier relative to the costs, and thus can induce more…
I’m writing a review of Ruth Grant’s Strings Attached for Public Choice. (The book concerns the ethics of incentives. It asks: Under what conditions is it right or wrong for different people…
At Politics & Prosperity, the author (read his bio here) writes: The BHL proponents of “social justice” are intelligent and clever persons. They know what they are doing by wrapping their…