July 17, 2013
Against the Living Wage/”Subsidy” Arguments
Suppose, on a reasonably competitive market, that Bob’s labor is worth at most $1/hr to any potential employer. (Suppose that this is the best Bob will be able to produce…
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July 11, 2013
Hayek and Pinochet, A Discussion Deferred For Now
I have started putting together my next post responding to Corey Robin’s Hayek scholarship, this time concerning Robin’s claims about Hayek’s views on Pinochet. I have to say that I’ve…
July 05, 2013
Robin and the Austrians Revisited II: Anatomy of a Hayek Fail
This post is my second reply to Robin’s defense of his piece in The Nation. It focuses on Robin’s reading of Hayek. It’s long, and for a reason. I want…
July 02, 2013
Robin and the Austrians Revisited: On “Elective Affinities,” “Value,” and Other Conceptual Disasters
Corey Robin has replied to (mostly my) criticisms of his piece in The Nation linking Hayek and the Austrians with Nietzsche. To prepare for this post, I reread the original…
June 15, 2013
What Global Justice Should Be About: A Preview
Here are the projected introductory paragraphs of the book we have (almost!) completed with Loren Lomasky: What do we owe distant others? In this book we offer a simple answer…
May 25, 2013
Fearing Freedom
James Buchanan was one of the most philosophical economists of his generation, and he had a deep commitment to the classical liberal world-view. But he also identified serious challenges that…