Saturday, April 10th, 2010
How free are you? Some food for thought by Robert Nozick, an excerpt from Anarchy, State, and Utopia, 290-292 (1974), winner of the National Book Foundation's National Book Award in 1975. Consider the following sequence of cases, which we shall call the Tale of the Slave, and imagine it is ...
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Friday, January 1st, 2010
Earlier this week I finished reading Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement by Brian Doherty, a senior editor at Reason magazine. It's a great read for anyone interested in the history of the free-market activism in the United States. Here's one of my favorite ...
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Sunday, December 13th, 2009
If you're interested in defending free markets, I highly recommend listening to or watching Tom Palmer's talk about his new book, Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice at a Cato Institute book forum last week. Tyler Cowen's comments about it are also worthwhile.
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