Robert E. Wright
Unangelic Knaves and Projective Paternalists
Many people readily impose their own preferences on others without hesitation or compunction, even when they can communicate freely with the party being imposed upon.
Why Did This Libertarian Get Published in the Washington Post?
Maybe it was just a fluke, but the willingness of the Post to countenance private ordering has given me renewed hope that there might still be some thinking statists left, people who can be persuaded to jettison faith in “compulsory monopoly” solutions to every perceived problem.
The Golden Rule Requires Markets
If we want to follow The real Golden Rule, and we should, we shouldn’t force people to make the exchanges they would otherwise refuse in absence of coercion.
MMT Is a Recipe for Revolution
MMT in the colonial period often led to periods of ruinous inflation and, less well-understood, revolution-inducing deflation.
The First New Deal Ruined Energy Innovation
We will never know for sure how much more quickly green-energy technologies might have developed if the New Deal had not squelched the sector by subsidizing its dirty alternative.
Financial Discrimination Is Better Tackled by Markets
Complaining about injustice is cheap; bona fide progressives put their money where their ideals are, and reap as they sow.
