In In Defense of Openness, Bas and I respond to supposedly “left-wing” opposition to open borders. Leftist opposition to open borders is especially puzzling. It usually begins with the controversial empirical…
In most countries, most people are poor. In some countries, most people are rich. Adam Smith and other economists have long sought to explain why. Philosophers who work on global justice…
From the American Institute on Economic Research, my piece on price-gouging. I’m against it. I favor low prices and plentiful supply. The problem is that if you don’t have plentiful…
Universities ostensibly aim to promote learning and critical thinking. This is one reason I wanted to become a professor—I share that aim. And this seems to be what most college professors…
In In Defense of Openness, Bas and I wonder why so much of the global justice literature defends the opposite conclusions of development economics. Philosophers ignore or more often denigrate property…
Having spent a lot of time explaining why we should allow prices to move freely during emergencies, I have found that people sympathetic to “anti-gouging” laws will sometimes concede the…