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“To be deprived of that which we are possessed of, is a greater evil than to be disappointed of what we have only the expectation. Breach of property, therefore, theft and robbery, which take from us what we are possessed … Continue reading →

That is the title of my new paper (preprint available here via SSRN), which will be published in an upcoming issue of History of Economic Ideas, a refereed journal specializing in the history of economic thought. (This is one of … Continue reading →

I haven’t been blogging too much lately because I am busy editing, line by painstaking line, two of my forthcoming papers in order to get them ready for publication: “Adam Smith, David Hume, and Balliol College Conspiracy” and part 1 … Continue reading →

Earlier this month, I wrote up a seven-part survey of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, which is also known as “The Second Discourse”; see links below for a complete compilation of my previous Rousseau posts. Today, however, … Continue reading →

File under: Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Via https://errantscience.com/

That is the title of this new paper by Dr Peter Hutton and Professor David Ashton explaining why the great David Hume has been “unjustly vilified” by his detractors. Alas, this paper is gated, but I will request a copy … Continue reading →

I once proposed this creative solution to the famous Trolley Problem thought-experiment in moral philosophy: an auction conducted from behind a Rawlsian veil of ignorance. The technical but simple solution pictured below, however, is pure genius!