June 19, 2013
Rawls for Libertarians
My last two posts have explained what I take to be Rawls’s philosophical project and the main errors in that project. Now I can state in a relatively straightforward fashion…
Author: Kevin Vallier
June 17, 2013
Carl Menger Essay Contest
My friend Adam Martin asked me to post this advertisement for the Carl Menger Essay Contest that FEE runs each year. It looks like fun! The Society for the Development of…
June 07, 2013
Rawlsian Trash
I love Rawls more than anyone else on this blog; perhaps a lot more. But sometimes you have to take out the trash and save the baby from the bathwater….
May 31, 2013
Rawls’s Philosophical Project
I initially wrote a post explaining why I think libertarians should take Rawls seriously. But then I realized I understand Rawls pretty differently than most BHL readers. For instance, I…
May 22, 2013
Social Injustice as Emergent Property
David Friedman has recently challenged BHLers to clarify our understanding of social justice (also see here). David has expressed some frustration that BHLers have sometimes offered definitions of social justice…
May 13, 2013
On Robin’s Tenuous Connection between Nietzsche and Hayek
The Nation has just published a piece by BHL’s old friend Corey Robin where Robin tries to draw a significant connection between Austrian economics’ view of economic value and Nietzsche’s…