Posts filed under crooked timber
June 26, 2013
Rape, Work, and Friedrich Hayek
Yesterday in my inbox I found a message announcing an upcoming episode of Frontline that explores “the reality of rape on the job” for immigrant workers in American fields, farms and…
July 16, 2012
Coercion in Employment: Putting the Concept of Coercion to Work
[Editor’s Note: The following is a guest contribution from Scott Anderson, professor of philosophy at the University of British Columbia. Scott’s not a libertarian, but he’a friend and a good…
July 12, 2012
Liberal BHLs and Labor BHLs
Our recent series of discussions on libertarianism and workplace coercion has led me to formulate yet another distinction among types of BHLs. Liberal BHLs and Labor BHLs. One way to…
July 10, 2012
Libertarianism Means Worker Empowerment
Advocates of free markets and advocates of worker empowerment often find themselves at odds, as is attested by the current controversy between Bertram, Robin, and Gourevitch on the one hand…
July 09, 2012
Libertarianism, Freedom, and Coercion
Bertram, Robin and Gourevitch (BRG) don’t think that libertarianism takes seriously enough the ways in which workers’ freedom is restricted in a capitalist economy. Jason Brennan thinks that BRG misunderstand the sort of libertarianism…