April 29, 2014
Libertarian Hooliganism and Vulcanism
Another question to ponder: Are libertarian Hooligans good or bad? I define “Hooligan” below. The question is deliberately imprecise–you can make it more precise when you answer it. In Against…
April 28, 2014
CFP: Symposium on Ethical Limits to Markets
A reader passes along the following Call For Papers, which I thought might be of interest to you bunch: CALL FOR PAPERS Symposium on the Ethical limits to markets To…
April 28, 2014
Libertarianism and the Poor
Last week, I gave a talk at Boise State University on “Liberty and the Poor.” My thanks to Allen Dalton and the terrific Students for Liberty chapter there for bringing…
April 26, 2014
The Measure of an Economist or a Philosopher
Very quick post tonight. What makes someone a good economist or a philosopher? Is it better to be 1) a person who comes to the right conclusions but with bad…
April 22, 2014
Inequality or Poverty?
To follow up on Bas’s recent post, I’d like to briefly revisit the most powerful argument for thinking that poverty rather than material inequality per se is what matters morally:…
April 21, 2014
On the Piketty Welcome Party
Thomas Piketty’s new book Capital in the Twenty-First Century is all the rage right now. You know the gist: Piketty thinks capitalism has an inherent tendency to ever-increasing inequality. Indeed,…