April 14, 2014
Monday Morning Links
Dan Bier (aka The Skeptical Libertarian) asks: “Should Homophobes be Fired?“ John McCaskey on “The New Libertarians: New Promoters of a Welfare State“ Chandran Kukathas and Christopher Wellman debate open…
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March 16, 2014
Libertarian Mungerfesto: Part V–Hayekian Socialism
My apologies for the long delay since Part IV. I’m finishing a book for Cambridge U Press, and an enormous screw-up in what should have been the final (as I…
December 16, 2013
Will Private Charity Be Enough?
Matt Zwolinski recently discussed arguments for a Basic Income Guarantee (BIG) at BHL and Libertarianism.org. One of those arguments was that a BIG might be required on libertarian grounds because…
August 28, 2013
Why focus on Walmart and McDonald’s?
I really liked Megan McArdle’s column and Jason’s post about it this morning. They both nicely illustrate how a lot of the resistance to Walmart and McDonald’s in particular is…
July 19, 2013
Ideologically Convenient Beliefs about Worker Productivity
Consider this a Robin Hanson-style post. Basic textbook economics says that workers’ wages are determined by marginal productivity. (Here’s a quick explanation from Mankiw intended for a popular audience. Deep in…
December 20, 2012
Property-Owning Democracy is Unjust, Free-Market Fairness is Not
In my last post, in my series on property-owning democracy (POD), I claimed that it is unjust because POD frustrates the realization of Rawls’s (unmodified) two principles of justice. But…