May 21, 2013
Barack Obama’s Political Philosophy
(Author’s note: this is a post about ideas, not politics. It is unrelated to current events. It simply examines the philosophical views expressed by our Chief Executive.) In a number…
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May 14, 2013
Libertarians and Human Rights
In a recent post, Bas van der Vossen urges libertarians to think more about human rights. I agree, so I write this commentary in the spirit of a friendly amendment….
May 13, 2013
On Robin’s Tenuous Connection between Nietzsche and Hayek
The Nation has just published a piece by BHL’s old friend Corey Robin where Robin tries to draw a significant connection between Austrian economics’ view of economic value and Nietzsche’s…
April 26, 2013
Sandel on Queuing
It seems that every year, someone publishes a book on the moral limits of markets. Peter Jaworski and I will most likely be writing a book responding to these other…
April 07, 2013
New Stanford Encyclopedia Entry on Markets
Over at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Lisa Herzog has written a very nice entry on “markets” that will likely be of interest to readers of this blog. In particular, section…
April 01, 2013
The Failure of Market Failure
Art Carden and I have the monthly feature at Econlib: “Is Market Failure a Sufficient Condition for Government Intervention?” We think it’s a useful and accessible primer on why pointing…