November 01, 2011
Maybe
This post suggests that Elizabeth Warren’s “there is nobody in this country who got rich on his own” is a deliciously ironic appropriation of Adam Smith’s insights about economic interdependence…
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October 31, 2011
Does Inequality Matter?
A common theme among the Occupy Wall Street crowd and its supporters is that inequality in the United States has skyrocketed over the last thirty years. Often, statistics about increasing inequality – and income…
October 30, 2011
There’s more to be said than this of course…
but this unexpected comic at Zach Weiner’s Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal seems to just call out for a B-HL link.
October 26, 2011
Gratitude, duty, institutions
This is going to be a quick impressions post– and I hope that getting the conversation started in a public setting will lead me (or someone) to develop the arguments…
October 24, 2011
Answering the Left-Libertarian Critique of Sweatshops
Ben Powell and I have a new paper coming out in the Journal of Business Ethics in which we defend what we take to be the mainstream libertarian position on…
October 14, 2011
Friday Links
Adam Smith – Bleeding Heart Libertarian? Economic Freedom in the United States Today I did another interview with Kosmos Online, this one discussing my current research. I talk about the…