Monthly Archives: September 2010

How Inequality Shapes Our Lives, Part 3

30th
Sep. × ’10

Bryan Caplan has replied to my reply to his reply to my inequality post. Others have weighed in as well; see David Heinrich, Jason Sorens, and Libérale et libertaire. I plan to address those too; but let me focus on Bryan’s latest reply for now. In his first reply, Bryan had argued that if consumers/tenants/workers [...]

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Nice Kids Don’t Share

27th
Sep. × ’10

Excellent short story (well, not excellent qua story, but excellent qua editorial, as it were) on copyright, by Richard Stallman. (CHT Kevin Carson.) I’m reminded of this cartoon.

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Alongside Machete

24th
Sep. × ’10

Okay, Machete isn’t Hitchcock or anything; but it’s a fun movie. It also has some interesting libertarian aspects: It’s explicitly in favour of open borders.   It’s implicitly in favour of the right to bear arms.   It dramatises countereconomic resistance to government (“the Network”).   It also dramatises the “Baptists and bootleggers” dynamic, as [...]

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How Inequality Shapes Our Lives, Part 2

22nd
Sep. × ’10

My friend Bryan Caplan has a response to my recent post about inequality. I’m preparing to leave town for the Alabama Philosophical Society and so probably won’t have a chance to reply in detail until I get back. (This also applies to the comments section of my previous post, which I haven’t had a chance [...]

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How Inequality Shapes Our Lives

17th
Sep. × ’10

Those of us who regard socioeconomic inequality as a serious problem are often accused of “envy,” as though such concerns were simply a matter of begrudging someone else’s having more cookies than we do. I think this reaction misses the point in a number of ways; let me say just a bit about just one [...]

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The Reversal That Is Not One

15th
Sep. × ’10

Bjørn Lomborg explains.

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