December 26, 2013
Libertarianism at the Eastern APA
Readers who are planning to attend this weekend’s Eastern Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association might be interested in checking out this session being put on by the American…
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December 12, 2013
Hoppe’s Argumentation Ethics Argument Refuted in Under 60 Seconds
Wouldn’t it be nice if it turned out that every argument presupposed that your ideology is correct? Hell, yeah! But, unfortunately, it ain’t so. Time to grow up and put…
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 06, 2013
Adam Tebble on Redistribution in Light of Past Injustice
Matt Zwolinski recently posted a piece probing the question of whether a unconditional basic income might be a good idea from a broadly libertarian or at least classical liberal perspective….
November 20, 2013
Sufficientarian Liberalism
A common thread on this blog is the thought that free markets are preferable to various forms of state intervention if our aims are, not only to achieve prosperity, but…
November 14, 2013
Schmidtz on First Possession and Xenophobia
Just as we don’t do a lot of just-a-link posts around here, we don’t do a lot of just-a-quote posts, either. But as I was preparing for class today, I…