July 10, 2012
Libertarianism Means Worker Empowerment
Advocates of free markets and advocates of worker empowerment often find themselves at odds, as is attested by the current controversy between Bertram, Robin, and Gourevitch on the one hand…
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June 09, 2012
Why Sweatshop Jobs Are Worth Defending – A Short Response to Long
Roderick Long raises some important concerns about my defense of sweatshops. I’m short on time, preparing for the symposium on John Tomasi’s book next week, but I wanted to get…
June 09, 2012
Why Libertarians Should Oppose Sweatshops
I have no quarrel with Matt’s central thesis – namely, that eliminating sweatshops without changing anything else would be bad for the poor. But I think an analysis of sweatshops…
May 18, 2012
Chartier on the Right to Work
There’s been a bit of discussion in one of our recent comment threads about so-called “right-to-work” laws (RTW). This is a topic we’ve discussed before here. And it’s one about…
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…