UPDATE: Tom “There’s an Anti-Rothbard Cult”* Woods claims to have refuted my criticism here. Judge for yourself. I was at a conference a few years ago on Austrian vs. Chicago-school…
I sometimes report on BHL-relevant developments in philosophy journals, and I’ve just found a total gem of a piece that you should all be aware of. Philosopher Jonny Anomaly (yes,…
The Economist ran an article recently called “Get a Life”. It argues that there tends to be higher worker productivity in countries where people work fewer hours. Excerpt: And it seems that…
In this post, I give some limited reasons to think that classical liberals have to integrate a positive and normative conception of duty into an analysis of how to solve…
Hooray! Walmart has decided to double its wages. Henceforth, instead of paying somewhere between $8-11/hr for the typical floor-level associate, it will pay them $16-22/hr. Thank God, justice is served!…
Here. Quoted: It’s as if Brennan has been reading too much Marx and thinks that productivity is an embodied, intrinsic (or partially acquired) quality of an agent. Brennan knows better…