A three-author piece on libertarianism and workplace coercion has been ripping through the popular political blogs in the last few days. The piece is long, and its points are varied, but the biggest one is that laissez-faire capitalism — the favored economic form of libertarianism — generates conditions of coercion that violate the very liberty… Continue reading On libertarianism, workplace coercion, and scarcity
Author: Matt Bruenig
Liberal equality of opportunity according to Rawls
When it comes to political debates, one can either argue on the framework level or the empirical level. On the framework level, discussions revolve around the basic principles that motivate just political systems. For instance, we might ask whether equal opportunity is all that is necessary for an economic system to be just. The empirical… Continue reading Liberal equality of opportunity according to Rawls
Government’s already existing hand in US health insurance
The Supreme Court upheld the individual mandate today. As such, I thought I would break my hiatus briefly. One of the talking points among detractors of the health care law was that it constituted a government takeover of healthcare. That is understandably a form of political rhetoric aimed at firing up a base, but it… Continue reading Government’s already existing hand in US health insurance
On a short hiatus
I wont have any new posts for a bit. But I will return soon!
In a stunner, researchers find health insurance is good
About this time last year, I wrote a post about the groundbreaking Medicaid study going on in Oregon right now. Oregon ran a health insurance lottery for some of its impoverished adult population, giving the winners access to Medicaid, and the losers nothing. This admittedly disgusting and embarrassing process created a natural experiment that has… Continue reading In a stunner, researchers find health insurance is good