April 30, 2012
BHL’s & UBI’s
I support a Universal Basic Income (UBI), and I think that other libertarians ought to as well. Earlier, Jason sketched the difference between ‘hard libertarians’ and BHL, but didn’t give…
Posts filed under Bryan Caplan
April 25, 2012
Progress or Poverty: The Economics of Land and Discovery
David Friedman recently wrote “One reason to respect natural rights is that it is a good thing to do, another is that respecting them can be expected to produce a…
April 03, 2012
John Stuart Mill’s “Awful” Philosophy?
Bryan Caplan has recently argued that some of Mill’s arguments in On Liberty are “awful” and “cringeworthy” . But the arguments that he offers in support of this claim don’t…
February 23, 2012
On Passing Laws and Pointing Guns
Libertarians sometimes take their analogies too far. From the plausible insight that taxation is like forced labor certain respects, they jump to the entirely implausible conclusion that taxation is forced…
February 16, 2012
What We Can Learn from Drowning Children
So, it turns out that Bryan Caplan isn’t a bleeding heart libertarian either. Unlike Will, though, Bryan’s problem isn’t with the libertarianism of BHL, but with its bleeding heart. Bryan, you…
March 31, 2011
Discerning Desert
Since my last post on the subject, Bryan Caplan has put up two very interesting posts over at EconLog about the distinction between the deserving and undeserving poor. The issue…