April 14, 2014
Bleeding Heart Utilitarian Libertarianism
With my first post as an official member of BHL, I’ll take a big picture approach and briefly explain why I think utilitarianism should be attractive to bleeding heart libertarians….
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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 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…
October 30, 2013
When Libertarians Cry
Much has been written about Jonathan Haidt’s work on the psychology of political identity and the ways in which libertarians differ from liberals and conservatives. He found, among other things,…
April 30, 2013
Eudaimonism and Non-Aggression
There are two ways one can go wrong with regard to the non-aggression principle (NAP). One way to go wrong is to treat the NAP as a rigid, out-of-context principle…