McArdle has this piece about how increasing the incomes and economic security of people won’t solve everything. You can read the whole thing if you want, but basically the idea here is that there are other harms in the world than not having an adequate level of income and economic security, including harms related to… Continue reading On money and meaning
Author: Matt Bruenig
Law professor argues protectionism for law professors definitely good
Paul Campso bio at Wikipedia: Paul F. Campos [sic] is a law professor, author and blogger on the faculty of the University of Colorado Boulder in Boulder. This Campso fellow is really upset at a piece I wrote in which I argue that we should do what tons of other countries do and make it… Continue reading Law professor argues protectionism for law professors definitely good
Fun game: identify the aggressor in this animated gif
The median libertarian out there on the internet (especially in the sad pits of Reddit) seriously thinks the non-aggression principle does work in favor of their preferred economic institutions. Even notable people like Jason Kuznicki of Cato can get sucked into this stupidity, though from what I recall of our last run in, he has… Continue reading Fun game: identify the aggressor in this animated gif
Subscribe to my newsletter
I write regularly at three different websites and periodically at this one. Presumably that makes it hard for people to keep up with everything. For those who care to keep up with everything, I’ve started an email newsletter. The newsletter consists of a weekly email with links to all of the things I have written… Continue reading Subscribe to my newsletter
Salvaging Non-Aggression for Egalitarianism
To rehash: the only world that follows the non-aggression principle is the grab-what-you-can world. In this word “nobody initiates force directly against another person’s body, but subject to that constraint, people regularly grab any external resource they can get their hands on, regardless of who has made or been using the resource.” This world follows… Continue reading Salvaging Non-Aggression for Egalitarianism