December 05, 2013
Libertarianism and the Basic Income
Today, I did a short interview with Cato on the libertarian case for a Basic Income Guarantee, and published a much more substantive essay on that same topic at Cato’s…
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June 12, 2013
John Rawls: For School Choice, Against the Minimum Wage
[Editor’s Note: The following is a guest contribution by Felix Bungay, a student at the University of Cambridge reading an MPhil in Intellectual History and Political Thought.] When looking at…
May 09, 2012
F. A. Hayek: Enemy of Social Justice and Friend of a Universal Basic Income?
Until recently, I had only read the first two books of Hayek’s grand trilogy Law, Legislation and Liberty. People told me that the third book was the least interesting. The…
April 14, 2014
Bleeding Heart Utilitarian Libertarianism
With my first post as an official member of BHL, I’ll take a big picture approach and briefly explain why I think utilitarianism should be attractive to bleeding heart libertarians….
August 27, 2013
The Problem with the “Even Hayek…” Problem
One of the topics toward the end of a recent week-long discussion of Hayek was the phenomenon we named the “Even Hayek…” Problem. This is when people criticize libertarians and…
July 19, 2013
More on Living Wages
Eric Schliesser (Ghent) responds here. Some quotations: Brennan implies that the folk who advocate the moral outsourcing argument are economic nitwits. Brennan’s ridicule surprises me because these government subsidies (food stamps,…