Peter Jaworski comments here. http://www.thevolunteer.ca/2011/03/canada-is-free-the-u-s-is-mostly-free/ When the Heritage Institute measures economic freedom, the US comes out lower many other states, including Switzerland, Denmark, and Canada. Now if you make a…
I recently discussed whether libertarians are “callous”. In my first post, I said I am a neoclassical liberal, not a libertarian, in part because social justice plays a prominent role…
Economics is an empirical science. Okay, yeah, I realize many econ papers simply consist of logical deductions from mathematical models. However, as soon as you attempt to use these models…
From my response to Palmer at Cato Unbound: Palmer says that no matter what happens to a man on a desert island, the man is neither free nor unfree, because…
If you only read academic philosophy discussing orthodox right libertarianism, you might expect that libertarians are callous and indifferent to poverty. Academic philosophers tend to think that self-described libertarians have…
A while back, David Schmidtz and I had a discussion about the concept of liberty with Philip Pettit, John Christman, and Tom Palmer on Cato Unbound. In our essay and book, Schmidtz…