April 22, 2014
Inequality or Poverty?
To follow up on Bas’s recent post, I’d like to briefly revisit the most powerful argument for thinking that poverty rather than material inequality per se is what matters morally:…
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March 16, 2014
Libertarian Mungerfesto: Part V–Hayekian Socialism
My apologies for the long delay since Part IV. I’m finishing a book for Cambridge U Press, and an enormous screw-up in what should have been the final (as I…
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…
March 04, 2014
Reasonable Libertarian Worries about Nudging
I thought readers of the blog might be interested in my recent contribution to a symposium on the Political Theology blog about “nudging.” I don’t say too much that will be new, but you…
February 23, 2014
Two Links
These should be of interest to our readers: Gregory Clark (UC-Davis Econ) in the NY Times about long term social mobility. One quote: “The fortunes of high-status families inexorably fall,…