WGBH’s Innovation Hub has a nice, in-depth discussion of the Basic Income Guarantee available here. They spoke with me about the libertarian rationale for a BIG and its political prospects. And…
A little over three years ago, I published an essay entitled, “Six Reasons Libertarians Should Reject the Non-Aggression Principle.” That essay kicked off a spirited debate, with notable responses from…
Today, California governor Jerry Brown will sign a law raising the state’s the minimum wage (currently $10/hr – tied with Massachusetts for the highest of any state) to $15/hr by 2022. This is…
But you probably don’t believe it. In this video of my Hayek Lecture at Duke Univesity, I explain why.
Opposition to the welfare state is often considered to be a defining feature of libertarianism. But over the last few years, a few of us libertarians have been seeking to…
Libertarian arguments in favor of a free markets can be, in Jacob’s terminology, either rationalist or pluralist. Murray Rothbard, Ayn Rand, Robert Nozick, and Herbert Spencer are all probably best…