April 14, 2016
Panarchist Anthology Published
A new anthology titled Panarchy: Political Theories of Non-Territorial States, edited by Aviezer Tucker and Gian Piero de Bellis, has been released by Routledge. The concept of panarchy comes from…
April 14, 2016
Some thoughts on the minimum wage
As you know, California is phasing in a $15 minimum wage. As Matt has explained, this is very likely a very bad idea. But: could a minimum wage law be…
April 13, 2016
Questions for Left Libertarians
The idea of workplace democracy is popular among left libertarians, but I think it’s hard to square a commitment to workplace democracy with other commitments that libertarians are inclined to…
April 13, 2016
On the Over-Politicization of Bathroom Norms
One of the most important insights of both the classical liberal tradition and the new and the growing (and not necessarily classical liberal) multi-disciplinary study of social norms is that…
April 11, 2016
Adjunct Professors and Kidney Sellers: Pay them both, or don’t pay either.
There’s been quite a bit of discussion* about Jason Brennan’s and Phil Magness’s excellent paper on the alleged exploitation of adjunct faculty. Brennan and Magness note that “Many news sources,…
April 11, 2016
Is Liberal Arts Education Founded on a Lie?
Princeton University Press will published Bryan Caplan’s The Case Against Education in 2017. I’m reading through the penultimate draft right now, and I’ve been fortunate to have Caplan guest lecture on this…