September 19, 2015
What’s with Income Inequality?
Many have been surprised by the rapid surge of the issue of income inequality. Thomas Piketty’s book spawned academic and popular interest in the topic. The idea that the main…
September 18, 2015
Buy Harry Frankfurt’s On Inequality
Years ago, Harry Frankfurt (of On Bullshit* fame) wrote a series of essays arguing that equality is of no intrinsic importance. What matters is that people have enough, not that they are…
September 18, 2015
The Bad Libertarian Argument for Commodification
For any particular good X, is morally permissible for you to sell X? Note that this question doesn’t ask whether selling X ought to be legal. Rather, it asks whether selling…
September 17, 2015
Of Course We Should Allow Kidney Sales
I’m participating in a debate, of sorts, in the Pan-Am Post. Drawing from Markets without Limits, I point out that most opposition to organ sales is about the how, not the what. Opponents…
September 16, 2015
Special Issue of The Critique on Vaccines, Belief, and Autonomy
Readers of this ‘blog might be interested in the most recent issue of the online philosophy magazine The Critique, on “Vaccines. Belief, and Autonomy”, as it features articles by both…
September 16, 2015
From a Reader
In response to Markets without Limits, Alberto Lázaro sent me this. That’s Michael Sandel in the Superman suit. After posting this on a Facebook, a friend asked, “Wait, aren’t you supposed to…