Friday Roundup, March 1
So What is Marriage? That’s the question I take up with Ryan Anderson, editor of Public Discourse and William Simon Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, in the current Liberty Law Talk. A Pathology of...
View ArticleCoase and The World that Was
While it was sad to hear of the passing of Ronald Coase, what joy to reflect on one of the great scholarly lives. Coase was still able to publish a book at the age of 101, 75 years after writing his...
View ArticleFriday Roundup, January 24th
Don’t miss this month’s Liberty Law Forum on the Constitution’s structural limitations of power and the Bill of Rights: Contributions from Patrick Garry, Ed Erler, Michael Ramsey, and Kenneth Bowling....
View ArticleRisk, Liberty, and Drugs: A Response to Theodore Dalrymple
Theodore Dalrymple’s provocative four posts outlining a case against the legalization of drugs provide an interesting contrast to the contemporary momentum in the Western world today toward relaxing...
View ArticleThinking about Property Rights Can Solve This
The public debate in America over access to public restrooms by transgendered people has largely been dominated by vague claims for morality, justice and fairness. The situation was further complicated...
View ArticleThe Sharing Economy’s Online Agency Advances Material Equality
The sharing economy is an equalizing economy. On the supply side, it more easily allows people who own such property as houses and cars to earn income. Of course, wealthy people also own houses and...
View ArticleSkin in the Review: The Hidden Asymmetries of Taleb’s Skin in the Game
Nassim Nicholas Taleb wrote a book—Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life—but I don’t know what kind of book he wanted to write. (I do know Taleb enjoys italicizing, though; in what...
View ArticleA Coasian Theory of the Family
In The Market Revolution, historian John Lauritz Larson quips that no farm wife lost her job because she stopped spinning her own thread or yarn and instead bought it on the market. While true...
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