Here’s a story related to me by another philosopher. The philosopher in question might be labeled “libertarian”, though that label is as misleading as it is helpful. (Indeed, I’m still…
David Schmidtz is one of the best. Here is a video designed to get people thinking.
In textbook neoclassical economics, the minimum wage is expected to cause unemployment among the least productive workers. Various economists from a wide range of ideological backgrounds dispute this. Perhaps I…
Many people approach political questions as a war to defend their ideological turf. Others are policy wonks who want to turn everything into a debate about contemporary policies. (How boring.) Some…
Update: Some readers are having a surprisingly difficult time understanding this post. So, here is the question I'm interested in: Suppose it turned out, empirically, that improving the income level…
Consider this a follow-up to “Advocating vs. Caring vs. Helping”. I teach Peter Singer’s “Famine, Affluence, and Morality” at least once a year. Here’s a brief, stylized summary of the…