November 13, 2019
Hayek, Freedom, and the Universal Basic Income
Friedrich Hayek was a champion of free markets, limited government, and “a certain minimum income for everyone … a sort of floor below which nobody need fall even when he…
Posts filed under Friedrich Hayek
June 08, 2016
Book on Confucian Libertarianism Published
I’m pleased to announce the publication of the second item from the Molinari Institute’s new POD publishing program. This one is my own Rituals of Freedom: Libertarian Themes in Early…
July 06, 2014
From the Unthinking Depths
Mike Munger maintains that libertarians should stop being “reflexively opposed to government”; should recognise that “in some instances, it is possible that the State is useful for advancing liberty”; and…
January 08, 2014
Basic Income Roundup
Since my last post here on libertarianism and Basic Income Guarantees (BIGs), I’ve written a few more pieces on the topic over at Libertarianism.org. Now that the holidays are over,…
December 08, 2013
A Libertarian Mungerfesto: In Five Parts
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels famously wrote “A Communist Manifesto” in anticipation of an imminent earthquake in world politics. Of course, in 1848, that seemed plausible. A number of people…
December 05, 2013
Libertarianism and the Basic Income
Today, I did a short interview with Cato on the libertarian case for a Basic Income Guarantee, and published a much more substantive essay on that same topic at Cato’s…