March 31, 2014
Vote Markets
Why do even the most enthusiastic defenders of markets stop short of defending a market in votes? After all, the central argument for markets in general applies to vote markets…
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March 06, 2014
Global Justice and the Problem of Kleptocracies
The last fifteen years or so have seen an explosion of writing on global justice. Here I flag a flaw in this literature: its failure to address the emergence and…
February 12, 2014
Ideal Frat Theory
I’m in the process of writing Against Politics. Among other things, the book argues that Mill was wrong and Schumpeter was right about how political engagement affects us. Political engagement doesn’t…
February 04, 2014
On Bertram’s Bad Reasons for Leveling Down
Chris Bertram has just issued a rather worrisome post entitled, “Squeezing the Rich is Good: Even When It Raises No Money.” In other words, destroying huge amounts of wealth, intentionally,…
December 11, 2013
Bleg: Help Me Come Up with Some Labels
I’m now writing book #7, Against Politics, for Princeton University Press. In it, as part of a critique of the “educative argument for democracy” (the thesis that democracy ennobles us or…
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) …