February 12, 2012
Remembering Julian Simon
Today would have been the 80th birthday of one of my deepest intellectual heroes and a man whose optimism about the future of humanity has become part of my intellectual…
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February 08, 2012
On the Relationship Between Economics and Philosophy
I am teaching a course this term which is basically an examination of modern libertarian political philosophy and political theory for PhD students in economics. But, I am also teaching…
March 16, 2011
Symbolic Politics is Morally Repugnant
In textbook neoclassical economics, the minimum wage is expected to cause unemployment among the least productive workers. Various economists from a wide range of ideological backgrounds dispute this. Perhaps I…