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Author: Kevin Vallier

June 04, 2014

Thomas Piketty’s Problematic Political Philosophy Part III: Inequality and the Common Utility

I will address Piketty’s arguments that patrimonial capital generates unjust inequalities and that a global wealth tax can suitably reduce those inequalities in two parts. In this post, I’ll simply…

June 03, 2014

Piketty, Revolution and Inequality: A Reply to Schliesser

Eric Schliesser has written a thoughtful and even-handed criticism of my post on Piketty and social stability. Eric is worried that I did not focus enough on the fact that simple…

June 02, 2014

Thomas Piketty’s Problematic Political Philosophy Part II: Inequality and Social Stability

In my last post, I claimed that Piketty offers four evaluative and four prescriptive arguments in Capital in the 21st Century. In this post, I will reconstruct and examine claims…

May 30, 2014

Thomas Piketty’s Problematic Political Philosophy Part I: Normative Arguments

This is the first in five posts that subject the normative claims in Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century to critical scrutiny. There have been many, many criticisms of his…

May 18, 2014

Why Don’t Libertarians Care About the Establishment of Religion?

I write both on libertarianism and issues surrounding the proper role of religion in politics. The issues don’t overlap all that much, in large part because there really is no…

May 07, 2014

Political Libertarianism: Between Thick and Thin

I have weighed in on the thick-thin libertarian controversy before, but since the libertarian social media sphere has erupted over the matter over the last few months, I thought I’d…

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