Category Archives: Uncategorized

In a recent blog post dated 20 October on his blog Marginal Revolution, our friend and colleague Tyler Cowen, an economist at George Mason, shared with his readers his typology of economic approaches to the world: (1) the rational actor … Continue reading →

This is our final post regarding the new Routledge Handbook of Libertarianism, a remarkable collection of erudite essays which was published earlier this year. (During the previous three weeks, we have reviewed 11 select essays from the Libertarian Handbook.) In … Continue reading →

With this post, we review the last of eleven select essays published in the new Routledge Handbook of Libertarianism: Hillel Steiner’s erudite essay on “Free markets and exploitation.” (Dr Steiner, a political philosopher and Emeritus Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of … Continue reading →

Here is a small sample of the essays, papers, reports, etc. we’ve learned the most from this week: Derek Parfit’s last paper (via the Journal of Philosophy & Public Affairs) The seven deadly sins of AI predictions (Joost Swarte, via MIT … Continue reading →

It’s been a few days since our last post on the new Routledge Handbook of Libertarianism. (We have already reviewed nine works from this remarkable collection of theoretical and applied essays.) In this post, we will review Jahel Queralt’s excellent essay: … Continue reading →

Behavioral economist Richard Thaler was awarded this year’s “Nobel Prize” in economics. But with all due respect, the Swedes got it wrong. If the selection criterion for winning a Nobel in economics these days is going to be original work … Continue reading →