February 29, 2012
Helping the Poor Is Not Intuitive
In his new book, Thinking Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman illustrates a lesson of central importance to bleeding heart libertarians: that if you want to help the poor, trusting your intuitions…
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February 14, 2012
Gary Chartier on Reason TV
Our very own Gary Chartier recently did an interview with Reason TV about his new book, Markets Not Capitalism. You can watch it here. And after you’re done, go ahead and get…
February 07, 2012
Property, Liberty, and the Deserving Poor
Despite the exciting title, I suppose this is really just an overblown links post. First, a couple of (relative) quickies: First, Terrance Tomkow has an interesting post on “The Origins…
February 06, 2012
Libertarianism, Consequentialism, and Self-Ownership
1) Consequentialist Considerations Are Crucial for Libertarians In a recent post, Kevin Vallier suggests that libertarianism cannot be justified by either utilitarianism or self-ownership. The first is said to be…
February 06, 2012
John Tomasi’s Free Market Fairness
John Tomasi’s new book, Free Market Fairness, is scheduled for release this week. I read this book in draft form almost exactly a year ago, when John was out in San…
December 01, 2011
New In the Journals – December 2011
This post continues the series started here, in which I present a selection of articles published or forthcoming in academic journals that might be of interest to readers of this…