Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol

We restated Robert Nozick’s mental model of imaginary worlds in our previous post. Next, in the second subsection of Chapter 10 of ASU (pp. 307-309), Nozick hits the pause button to compare and contrast his model of possible worlds with … Continue reading →

Nozick builds a beautiful mental model in the first subsection of Chapter 10 of ASU (pp. 297-306). This simple model has the following parts (p. 299): Universal imagining rights. “Imagine a possible world in which to live; this world need … Continue reading →

After many months and multiple blog posts, we have now reached the tenth and last chapter of Anarchy, State, and Utopia. Nozick begins this chapter by asking whether his ideal of the minimal state would inspire men to struggle or … Continue reading →

We interrupt our ongoing review of Anarchy, State, and Utopia to ask a simple question: why isn’t there a movie version of the popular Broadway musical “Hamilton” yet? According to this report in The Wall Street Journal (hat tip: kottke), … Continue reading →

Nozick devotes the last subsection of Chapter 9 of ASU (pp. 292-294) to the problem of “hypothetical histories.” Here, he poses a crucial question (p. 293): “How should hypothetical histories affect our current judgment of the institutional structure of society?” … Continue reading →

Let’s start wrapping up our review of Chapter 9 of Anarchy, State, and Utopia (ASU) by taking stock of Robert Nozick’s mind-blowing thought experiment in this chapter. In summary, Nozick imagines a collective corporate entity or Great Corporation in which … Continue reading →

Update (8/3): We are happy to report that the comments on Marginal Revolution are now back open! We interrupt our ongoing review of Anarchy, State, and Utopia to bring a matter of marginal significance (in the scheme of things) to … Continue reading →

As we mentioned at the end of our previous post, smack dab in the middle of one of the most original and mind-blowing thought experiments in the history of political philosophy, Nozick digresses to discuss Locke’s views on parental ownership … Continue reading →

You may have heard the slogan “corporations are people”; but what if people were corporations? The second subsection of Chapter 9 of ASU contains just such a mind-blowing thought experiment. In summary, Nozick borrows the Beckerian concept of “human capital” … Continue reading →

Recall from our previous post that Nozick has asked us to keep an open and uncontaminated mind in the opening subsection of Chapter 9. He will need us to keep an open mind because he is going to present an … Continue reading →