June 05, 2012
Reading Rothbard
As part of my research for the book I’m writing with John Tomasi on the history of libertarian thought,I’m re-reading Murray Rothbard’s The Ethics of Liberty. It’s a thought-provoking book, and…
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May 31, 2012
Employee and Employer Rights
Workplace relationships are a big part of most people’s lives. Many of us spend more time with our coworkers than our families, and our relationships with our coworkers have a…
May 23, 2012
The continuing history of bleeding-heart libertarianism
Antoine Claude Destutt de Tracy has a plausible claim to being the first libertarian, if by that word we understand something like the combination of rights theory, consent theory, and…
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…
May 06, 2012
David Friedman on Social Justice and Utilitarianism
One of the themes in my recent conversation at Cato Unbound with David Friedman was whether utilitarianism or social justice is a better concept for thinking about the moral obligations…