June 08, 2012
Three Reasons Sweatshops Are Good for the Poor
My newest video at LearnLiberty.org is up now, on sweatshops and the poor. Obviously, there are a lot of complexities that I wasn’t able to go into in a 5…
Posts filed under exploitation
June 07, 2012
Libertarianism and Private Power
Corey Robin and Chris Bertram have both recently claimed that libertarianism is insufficiently responsive to concerns about private power – especially the power employers wield over their employees. If libertarians…
June 01, 2012
Some comments on Bertram
Chris Bertram writes: What’s wrong with an employer saying to an employee (who needs the job, has bills to pay and kids to feed): “If you want to keep your…
April 24, 2012
Left-Libertarianism and the Ownership of Natural Resources
To start off: Why should libertarians be bothered about, specifically, rights to natural resources?[1. This paper is a slightly revised version of a paper first published in Public Reason 1…
April 13, 2012
Can you sell your future self into slavery?
Liberty of contract is a really important right, and legal restrictions on liberty of contract are offensively paternalistic, and are sometimes racist or sexist attempts to entrench the advantage of…
March 12, 2012
Workplace Coercion
Coercion is a really difficult concept to define. When theorists say things like “the workplace is a site of coercion” what does that mean, and what should we do about…