June 05, 2012
Reading Rothbard
As part of my research for the book I’m writing with John Tomasi on the history of libertarian thought,I’m re-reading Murray Rothbard’s The Ethics of Liberty. It’s a thought-provoking book, and…
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June 01, 2012
How Liberty Upsets Property
We might want to say a person has full ownership in some object X iff she has: A right to exclude others from using X. A right to use X….
May 30, 2012
Some Praise for Strings Attached
I’m writing a review of Ruth Grant’s Strings Attached for Public Choice. (The book concerns the ethics of incentives. It asks: Under what conditions is it right or wrong for different people…
April 24, 2012
Comments on Hillel Steiner’s Essay on Rights
Note: the following is a review of Hillel Steiner’s Essay on Rights that was originally published in the Canadian Journal of Philosophy, vol. 26, no. 2 (June, 1996), pp. 283-302….
April 13, 2012
Market Democracy and Bleeding Heart Libertarianism: Trivial, Boring, and Empty
I’m a big fan of Tomasi’s new book. However, rather than promote it, I’ll attack it. Worse, for this exercise, I’ll be unfair. I’ll articulate some objections that I believe…
March 22, 2012
Milton Friedman’s Classical Liberalism
Inspired by Pete Boettke’s semi-recent post, I’ve just finished re-reading Milton Friedman’s Capitalism and Freedom. It is a great work articulating and defending liberalism “in its original sense.” It is…