June 23, 2015
Ilya Somin on Eminent Domain
The recent book by Ilya Somin, The Grasping Hand: “Kelo v. City of New London” and the Limits of Eminent Domain (University of Chicago Press, 2015) is a key contribution to the…
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June 22, 2015
Cooperation over Coercion: The Importance of Unsupervised Childhood Play for Democracy and Liberalism
I have a new working paper at SSRN on the role of unsupervised childhood play in enabling children to learn the skills and attitudes central to democracy and liberalism. It…
June 05, 2015
Yes, Global Wealth Inequality is Unjust
Jonathan Anomaly asks, “Is global wealth inequality unjust?” Anomaly and Dan Moller suggest that global wealth inequality may be less unjust than a lot of people think because rich countries…
June 04, 2015
Is Global Wealth Inequality Unjust?
[Editor’s Note: The following is a guest post by Jonathan Anomaly, assistant professor of political science at Duke University.] When we look around the world and observe the massive wealth…
May 19, 2015
Designer Babies: Should We Design Dumber, Weaker, Less Healthy Babies?
One of the principal arguments against designer babies is that the rich would use this technology to give their children further advantages, but such technology would remain out of the…
May 13, 2015
Capitalism and the Humanization of the Family
With my book Hayek’s Modern Family just a few months from publication, I thought I’d provide a little preview of one strand of my argument there. Whatever the scientific merits of…