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Bat flips and moral philosophy?
Revised on Oct. 19. When Toronto slugger Jose Bautista crushed a monster “homerun” off the hapless Texas Rangers’ reliever Sam Dyson, Mr Bautista arrogantly chucked his bat to the side before rounding the bases. (The T-shirt pictured below breaks down … Continue reading
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The Law & Ethics of Napster
Before Sean Parker discovered Facebook, he had co-founded a company called Napster, a peer-to-peer file-sharing website that allowed users to share MP3 music files with each other (see image below, courtesy of the website “How Stuff Works“). At the time, Napster … Continue reading
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An Aviation Thought Experiment (Public Choice Edition)
Hola! We have been invited to speak about a federal law known as “the Jones Act” during today’s “fiscal crisis” panel of the Encuentro Nacional de la Diaspora Puertorriquena. (The “Encuentro Nacional” will take place at El Centro Borinqueno, which … Continue reading
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Why won’t Richard Epstein update his priors?
In our previous two posts (part 1 and part 2), we summarized Professor Richard Epstein’s critique of the great F. A. Hayek. It is now time to assess Epstein’s criticisms of Hayek–to critique the critique, so to speak. It pains … Continue reading
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Epstein’s Critique of Hayek (Part 2)
In our previous post, we identified (via the loquacious Professor Richard Epstein) a potential contradiction in Hayek’s influential theory of “spontaneous order.” Briefly, decentralized markets are a good example of a spontaneous order, but markets require a set of rules … Continue reading
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Epstein’s Critique of Hayek (Part 1)
We recently attended Richard Epstein’s lecture at George Mason University on “The Continuing Relevance of Hayek’s The Constitution of Liberty.” (Disclosure: we are big fans of Epstein’s book “Simple Rules for a Complex World.”) In his lecture, Epstein delivered several devastating blows against … Continue reading
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Oyez! Oyez! Oyez!
The law library of George Mason University has a wonderful collection of bobblehead dolls of our Supreme Court Justices and other historical jurists.
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Epstein on Hayek on Liberty
We will be attending a public lecture later today (10/8) by NYU law professor Richard Epstein on “The Continuing Relevance of Hayek’s The Constitution of Liberty.” If you are in the metro DC area, please join us. The lecture is scheduled for four o’clock in the … Continue reading
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“Facebook Ethics” (A/B testing edition)
Thus far this semester, we have been reading about the historic events that occurred in Harvard College in late 2003-early 2004 and in Silicon Valley during the summer 2004 leading up to the launching and subsequent explosive growth of Facebook (or “thefacebook,” as … Continue reading
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