May 22, 2012
Hayek Was Not Dumb
In my previous post I tried to figure out how, across Hayek’s writings as a whole, he could simultaneously support institutions that we commonly think of as part of a…
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May 07, 2012
Inheritance
I don’t believe the following three arguments are definitive, but I think they are interesting. I have taken them–or the roots of them–from an article on the topic by D.W. Haslett…
May 01, 2012
Two Marxist Premises
Consider the following Marxist argument: Economic freedom and private property in the means of production immiserate almost everyone. If some economic regime X immiserates almost everyone, then, pro tanto, X…
April 30, 2012
Rawls on Economists and Philosophers
My colleague David Levy recently alerted me to a discussion in Rawls’s Lectures on the History of Political Philosophy (2007, p. 162) on the intellectual relationship between economists and philosophers. As…
April 27, 2012
No Alternative to Public Revenue from Land Rent
Finer points aside, nobody has offered a specific and coherent and realistic more efficient and equitable alternative for public revenue than land rent or land value.
April 16, 2012
Baboons Build Their Own Cages, Don’t They?
I wasn’t much of a student in HS and before — my attentions were directed elsewhere — but I had a few highlight moments where the material and ideas being…