Friday Philosophy
Author:
David Gordon
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The political theorist Douglas W. Rae, who has taught at Yale University for decades, likes Hayek’s account of freedom but wants to expand what counts as coercion. By doing so, he hopes to be able to extend the amount of permissible redistribution from what Hayek allows. In a lecture to his class at Yale, Rae says that he likes the definition of