February 18, 2015
College Speech Codes: A Quick Critique
This Slate article has been making the rounds. It argues that campus speech codes are defensible in large part because college kids really are still kids, in a way. They have…
Posts filed under public choice
August 28, 2014
Libertarians and the Conversation on Race
My monthly “The Calling” column over at the Future of Freedom Foundation might be of interest to BHL readers. I argue that libertarians should be part of the ongoing conversation…
August 25, 2014
A methodological point and its substantive implications
Methodological: Starting from the status quo at any given time, tax cuts, spending cuts, deregulation, free trade agreements, and privatization (group 1) are policy changes. That means that they must…
August 14, 2014
Parenting Failure and Government Failure
Adam Gurri has raised a number of good points about Andrew’s post, and I want to offer some remarks of my own. Some of these are versions of points I…
March 21, 2014
Shearmur on Popper and Hayek
Worth reading throughout; I have some concerns about, say, the public intellectuals/ disciplinary normal science discussion, but I always learn from Shearmur. Of BHL relevance: 3:AM: How does Hayek differ…
June 09, 2012
Can there be an agentic public choice theory?
This article by Randall Holcombe suggests that “the public chocie revolution has been stopped short of total victory” “because the lessons of public choice are ignored by policy makers and…