My friend David Sobel argues that even if sweatshops are benefiting the global poor, this doesn’t mean that they are fulfilling whatever obligations they might have to aid the less fortunate:…
Sophisticated critics of sweatshop labor recognize that sweatshop jobs make workers better off, but argue that sweatshops should do more to improve the lives of workers – that they should make them…
A common theme among the Occupy Wall Street crowd and its supporters is that inequality in the United States has skyrocketed over the last thirty years. Often, statistics about increasing inequality – and income…
Ben Powell and I have a new paper coming out in the Journal of Business Ethics in which we defend what we take to be the mainstream libertarian position on…
Adam Smith – Bleeding Heart Libertarian? Economic Freedom in the United States Today I did another interview with Kosmos Online, this one discussing my current research. I talk about the…
Of likely interest to many BHL readers: Cato Unbound is hosting a symposium this month with a lead essay by Gerald Gaus and comments by Richard Arneson, Eric Mack, and…