May 19, 2014
Free the Parking!
This is probably just my economist self having trouble understanding something obvious. But…why in the world is it “a thing” to harass parking officers? As in Keene, NH, in this…
Author: Mike Munger
March 16, 2014
Libertarian Mungerfesto: Part V–Hayekian Socialism
My apologies for the long delay since Part IV. I’m finishing a book for Cambridge U Press, and an enormous screw-up in what should have been the final (as I…
January 16, 2014
A Libertarian Mungerfesto, Part IV: Consumer Sovereignty, and Getting “The Things” There
In “Wall Street,” Gordon Gecko delivers an iconic speech: Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures, the…
December 22, 2013
A Libertarian Mungerfesto, Part III: If the Exchange Setting is NOT Euvoluntary, What Then?
I left off the previous edition (part II) (and here’s part I) of the five part series this way: What does voluntary mean? Is it sufficient that consent not be…
December 10, 2013
A Libertarian Mungerfesto, Part II: Voluntary Exchange, Euvoluntary Exchange, and the Case for Cooperation.
(A prefatory note: Most of the references are omitted. This is a summary, not an academic paper. Some of the argument here is adapted from Guzman and Munger, 2013) …
December 08, 2013
A Libertarian Mungerfesto: In Five Parts
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels famously wrote “A Communist Manifesto” in anticipation of an imminent earthquake in world politics. Of course, in 1848, that seemed plausible. A number of people…