February 23, 2014
Two Links
These should be of interest to our readers: Gregory Clark (UC-Davis Econ) in the NY Times about long term social mobility. One quote: “The fortunes of high-status families inexorably fall,…
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February 18, 2014
A Very Short Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
With apologies to Jean-Jacques Rousseau. “The first person who, having donned a crown of gold, took it into his head to say ‘I am king’ and found people simple enough to…
February 10, 2014
Practical vs. Moral Objections to Open Borders
Yesterday, the Swiss did something evil: they voted to restrict immigration. Tyler Cowen comments: In my view immigration has gone well for Switzerland, both economically and culturally, and I am…
February 04, 2014
On Bertram’s Bad Reasons for Leveling Down
Chris Bertram has just issued a rather worrisome post entitled, “Squeezing the Rich is Good: Even When It Raises No Money.” In other words, destroying huge amounts of wealth, intentionally,…
February 03, 2014
We Look Up To Households That Make Consensual Decisions And We’re Not Sorry
(Co-Authored with Sarah Skwire) Recently, the blogger Amy Glass from ThoughtCatalog posted a piece titled “I Look Down On Young Women With Husbands And Kids And I’m Not Sorry.” We…
January 31, 2014
Are Religious Conservatives Welcome on the Libertarian Left?
A number of my co-bloggers strongly identify with the libertarian left. Typically being a member of the libertarian left in the libertarian movement means holding that standard libertarian political views…