Listen Libertarians! Concluding Part V
Part V of Five Part Review Essay on John Tomasi’s Free Market Fairness Summary to this point This is the fifth and last part in a five part review of John Tomasi’s new book, Free Market Fairness...
View ArticleNew Instant Cities: The Über-Planners of Libertarianism
Why can’t classical liberals stick to their principles? This posting is in the series with the theme of libertarians (or classical liberals in the European sense) being unable to stick to their own...
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The Pons Asinorum of Political-Economic Theory
The consent versus coercion framing In many debates of a political or economic nature, I find myself again and again arguing with people on both the left and right who take the consent-vs.-coercion...
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On Rawls and Nussbaum
Liberal-contractarian philosophies of justice see the unjust systems of slavery and autocracy in the past as being based on coercion—whereas the social order in the modern democratic market societies...
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The Libertarian Case for Slavery: A Note on Nozick
This is a historically important paper, by one “J. Philmore,” arguing along with Robert Nozick from a free-market libertarian viewpoint that the self-sale contract and the current employment or...
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Introduction to Property Theory
This is yet another unpublished paper to introduce property theory to various audiences, particularly economists. This version got the most downloads on my SSRN site. Click here to download paper.
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Inalienable Rights: A Litmus Test for Liberal Theories of Justice
Liberal-contractarian philosophies of justice see the unjust systems of slavery and autocracy in the past as being based on coercion—whereas the social order in the modern democratic market societies...
View ArticleMarxism as a Capitalist Tool
Just as the two sides in the Cold War agreed that Capitalism and Communism were “the” two alternatives, so the two sides in the intellectual Great Debate agreed on a common framing of questions with...
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Helping People Help Themselves
The full title to this book is: Helping People Help Themselves: From the World Bank to an Alternative Philosophy of Development Assistance. The book is an interdisciplinary analysis, giving a full...
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Property and Contract in Economics: The Case for Economic Democracy
This book presents a modern version of the old Labor (or Natural Rights) Theory of Property and of an Inalienable Rights Theory that descends from the Reformation and Enlightenment. Together these...
View ArticleEmployment Contract and Liberal Thought
This was the first of several papers that focused on the employment contract and inalienable rights, rather than on the labor theory of property. It was published as: The Employment Contract and...
View ArticleTalk on Alienation versus Delegation at Troy University
These are the slides for a talk on Alienation versus Delegation at a conference on Philanthropy and the Economic Way of Thinking at Troy University, Troy, Alabama November 7, 2014.
View Articleclassical-liberalism-and-the-firm
This is a scan of my chapter in the new book: Commerce and Community: Ecologies of Social Cooperation, edited by Robert F. Garnett, Paul Lewis, and Lenore T. Ealy. London: Routledge, 2015.
View ArticleStraddler interview and video
This is the text and edited video of an interview with The Straddler in January 2016 entitled: Against the Renting of Persons.
View ArticleAlexis de Tocqueville
Little-known proponents of workplace democracy: Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859)
View ArticleTalk: A Tale of Two Invalid Contracts: Coverture and Employment
These are the slides for a talk that focuses on the parallel inalienable rights arguments against the now-outlawed coverture marriage contract and the yet-to-be-outlawed employment contract.
View ArticleTalk: Neo-abolitionism and Marxism
These are the slides for a talk given in Munich in November 2017 at a conference on the Russian Revolution. The basic argument is that much of what John Stuart Mill said in the middle of the 19th...
View ArticleSome Less Well-Known Supporters of Workplace Democracy
This is a collection of likenesses or pictures and some representative quotations of a number of less well-known supporters (all dead white men) of workplace democracy.
View ArticleSource-paper on theory of inalienability
This paper is only a collection of likenesses and representative quotations from thinkers about inalienability and inalienable rights starting from Antiquity down to the present.
View ArticleReclaiming Democratic Classical Liberalism
The argument shows that the classical liberal endorsement of sovereign individuals acting in the marketplace generalizes to the joint action of individuals as the principals in their own organizations...
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