April 29, 2016
A Moral Case for a Basic Income
Over at Café Hayek, Don Boudreaux has a nice post on a universal basic income. He says that he does “not believe that as a practical matter a UBI would…
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April 11, 2016
Is Liberal Arts Education Founded on a Lie?
Princeton University Press will published Bryan Caplan’s The Case Against Education in 2017. I’m reading through the penultimate draft right now, and I’ve been fortunate to have Caplan guest lecture on this…
April 07, 2016
How to Suck at Leftism Part 2: A Crappy Argument for Nationalist Leftism
Judging by the comments to my last post, by some of the defenses of Sanders I’ve seen, and by articles by people like Stephen Macedo, many people think something like…
March 28, 2016
The Moral Presumption in Favor of Free Trade
In chapter 9 of Global Justice as Global Freedom, Bas van der Vossen and I defend free trade from various attacks from various philosophers. Here’s an excerpt from the beginning of…
March 17, 2016
Inside Higher Ed on Our Adjunct Paper
Inside Higher Ed has a nice write up of my paper with Phil Magness on the cost of providing justice for adjuncts. They also solicited some responses from activists, which, alas,…
February 07, 2016
Morality and Market Process
I’m not sure others will find this argument persuasive. But one argument for the morality of markets goes like this: A. It is wrong to use something someone else values more….