February 29, 2012
Helping the Poor Is Not Intuitive
In his new book, Thinking Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman illustrates a lesson of central importance to bleeding heart libertarians: that if you want to help the poor, trusting your intuitions…
Posts filed under poverty
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…
February 07, 2012
Property, Liberty, and the Deserving Poor
Despite the exciting title, I suppose this is really just an overblown links post. First, a couple of (relative) quickies: First, Terrance Tomkow has an interesting post on “The Origins…
November 03, 2011
Helping the Poor: Sacrifice, Intentions, and Outcomes
My friend David Sobel argues that even if sweatshops are benefiting the global poor, this doesn’t mean that they are fulfilling whatever obligations they might have to aid the less fortunate:…
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…
March 10, 2011
Bleeding Hearts and the Undeserving Poor
Over at Econlog, Bryan Caplan responds to Jason’s query about why libertarians are so often seen as callous with another possible explanation: libertarians, he says, are “relatively unafraid to ……