Eric Schliesser (Ghent) responds here. Some quotations: Brennan implies that the folk who advocate the moral outsourcing argument are economic nitwits. Brennan’s ridicule surprises me because these government subsidies (food stamps,…
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…
(Trigger warning: While this post does not discuss rapes and assaults in detail, several of the linked articles do.) Now that the Steubenville rapists have been convicted and sentenced, we…
(Trigger warning: While this post does not discuss rapes and assaults in detail, the article linked in the first paragraph does.) On Valentine’s Day, Rolling Stone published an article titled…
If you believe that it is a good thing to pass laws that prevent sellers of water or ice or generators from raising their prices after a natural disaster, are…
Any time a natural disaster strikes, you don’t have to wait too long for libertarians to start talking about two things: price gouging and broken windows. Since I’ve written a…