Tag: public choice theory
Cory Massimino chats with Jason Lee Byas about public choice theory, reparations (for slavery and other injustices), and war. Jason Lee Byas is a fellow at the Center for a Stateless Society and a PhD student in Philosophy at the University of Michigan. His academic work focuses on punishment (and its alternatives), rights theory, and…
Okumak üzere olduğunuz makale, Nathan Goodman tarafından kaleme alınmış ve 27 Mayıs 2021 tarihinde C4SS’de yayınlanmıştır. Bir C4SS antolojisi olan TOTAL ABOLITION: Police, Prisons, Borders, Empire için yazılmış üç tanıtım yazısından biridir ve kitap için bir teaser olarak burada yayınlanmıştır. Efsa tarafından Türkçe’ ye çevrilmiştir. Bir ekonomistin köleliğin ortadan kaldırılması üzerine bir şeyler kaleme alması…
[Hear an in-depth discussion on this article and its topics in this episode of The Enragés] It may seem strange for an economist to write about abolition. After all, economists focus on choices at the margin. Even when we talk about violent crimes or pollution, we argue that the optimal quantity of these “bads” is…
The Bootleggers & Baptists allegory is a helpful illustration for understanding the motivations of actors within a regulated industry. Popularized by economist Bruce Yandel, it helps to explain how two seemingly unaligned groups can come together to support the same policy prescription — when they both stand to benefit from the outcomes. It goes like…
Gary Chartier: Buchanan thought of himself as a classical liberal and an Austrian economist — but neither a leftist nor an anarchist. But that doesn’t mean left-wing market anarchists don’t have important lessons to learn from him …
Holding a libertarian position when our ideal solutions aren’t on the table is quite a challenge. It isn’t as simple as defending all property rights and the rich, and it isn’t as base as dismissing progressives as evil looters. Nuance is required, which is bad news for a soundbitten political culture.
Ross Kenyon takes a look at how libertarians instantly and unfairly discount labor movements as statist, when they are truly just reacting against the original statism of capitalists. Libertarians should look at this in a more even-keeled light!
Ross Kenyon comments on the “shakedown” of BP and the American government’s inability to be trusted to handle this situation in an ethical or productive manner.
