In recent decades, proposals for a universal basic income (UBI) have aroused a good deal of attention, but supporters of the free market have for the most part been averse to the idea. In his article “A Hayekian Case for Free Markets and a Universal Basic Income” (in Michael Cholbi and Michael Weber, eds., The Future of Work, Technology, and Basic
Burning Down the House: How Libertarian Philosophy Was Corrupted by Delusion and Greed by Andrew Koppelman St. Martin’s Press, 2022, 320 pp. Andrew Koppelman, a distinguished legal academic who teaches law and political science at Northwestern University, has a quality that few of his fellow academics possess. He is able to find merit in views he
Social Justice Fallacies by Thomas Sowell Basic Books, 2023; 224 pp. Thomas Sowell has given us a penetrating criticism of the approach to justice taken by many political philosophers, especially John Rawls and his innumerable followers. He says that they construct an image of the way society ought to be but fail to ask whether their plans are
Libertarian Autobiographies: Moving toward Freedom in Today’s World edited by Jo Ann Cavallo and Walter E. Block Palgrave Macmillan, 2023; xx + 533 pp. Jo Ann Cavallo and Walter Block have done those interested in libertarianism a great service, but they have set the reviewer of their book an impossible task. They have gathered together eighty
En las últimas décadas, las propuestas de una renta básica universal (RBU) han suscitado una gran atención, pero los partidarios del libre mercado se han mostrado en su mayoría reacios a la idea. En su artículo «A Hayekian Case for Free Markets and a Universal Basic Income» (en Michael Cholbi y Michael Weber, eds., The Future of Work, Technology,
Burning Down the House: How Libertarian Philosophy Was Corrupted by Delusion and Greed por Andrew Koppelman St. Martin’s Press, 2022, 320 pp. Andrew Koppelman, un distinguido académico jurídico que enseña leyes y ciencias políticas en la Universidad de Northwestern, tiene una cualidad que pocos de sus colegas académicos poseen. Es capaz de
Libertarian Autobiographies: Moving toward Freedom in Today’s World editado por Jo Ann Cavallo y Walter E. Block Palgrave Macmillan, 2023; xx + 533 pp. Jo Ann Cavallo y Walter Block han hecho un gran servicio a los interesados en el libertarismo, pero han puesto al revisor de su libro una tarea imposible. Han reunido ochenta relatos breves en los
Social Justice Fallacies por Thomas Sowell Basic Books, 2023; 224 pp. Thomas Sowell nos ha ofrecido una crítica penetrante del enfoque de la justicia adoptado por muchos filósofos políticos, especialmente John Rawls y sus innumerables seguidores. Dice que construyen una imagen de cómo debería ser la sociedad, pero no se preguntan si sus planes son
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