December 05, 2012
Property-Owning Democracy is Unworkable
In my last two posts, I explained Rawls’s idea of a property-owning democracy (POD) as elaborated by Thad Williamson and Martin O’Neill in much of their recent work, including this…
Posts filed under social justice
December 04, 2012
New Video on Libertarianism vs. Social Justice
I’ve got a new video up at LearnLiberty.org on libertarianism and social justice. Actually, it’s the first in a two-part series. This video covers the standard libertarian critique of social…
June 06, 2012
BHL Outreach … To Conservatives?
We BHLers are getting noticed by a wider array of groups (hopefully by more once we kick off Tomasi-fest). It’s exciting in part because we are increasingly setting the terms…
May 22, 2012
Hayek Was Not Dumb
In my previous post I tried to figure out how, across Hayek’s writings as a whole, he could simultaneously support institutions that we commonly think of as part of a…
May 09, 2012
F. A. Hayek: Enemy of Social Justice and Friend of a Universal Basic Income?
Until recently, I had only read the first two books of Hayek’s grand trilogy Law, Legislation and Liberty. People told me that the third book was the least interesting. The…
April 30, 2012
BHL’s & UBI’s
I support a Universal Basic Income (UBI), and I think that other libertarians ought to as well. Earlier, Jason sketched the difference between ‘hard libertarians’ and BHL, but didn’t give…