Chapter Three–“Do Your Share or Else”–of Compulsory Voting: For and Against considers and rebuts a range of deontological arguments for compulsory voting. Many of these arguments attempt first to establish that there…
I’m aware that I’ve already fallen three articles behind in my pledge to read and blog about two ARPS articles per week. That amounts to a week and a half…
I have an op-ed in Fortune today on Why Not Capitalism? It starts: Move over, Adam Smith. The new moral champion of capitalism is Mickey Mouse. It ends: The Mickey Mouse Clubhouse shows us, to our…
Yesterday, I said this. Whatever one thinks the proper role of government is, it surely is not this. At a bare minimum, we must demand that the government not force…
See the introduction to and explanation for this series of posts. Gillian K. Hadfield and Barry R. Weingast, Microfoundations of the Rule of Law I should note at the beginning…
Why Not Capitalism? should appear in paperback today. And, with it, the moral case for socialism dies. Capitalists and socialists used to duke it out on which system would work best in…