Freedom and Flourishing

  I pondered the above question as I read Fred D Miller’s book, Nature, Justice, and Rights in Aristotle’s Politics (published in 1995). Al...

  I don’t think anyone has ever asked me the question posed above. When I tell people that I am an economist, some of them ask about my view...

  This question is of interest to me for two reasons. First, I am a fan of Ayn Rand’s novels. Second, in the first chapter of my book, Freed...

  Matt Zwolinski and John Tomasi have contributed an excellent history of libertarian ideas in their recently published book, The Individual...

  The accompanying graph shows that personal freedom tends to be greatest in countries where people hold the most emancipative values (on av...

  Why should you care about the economic opportunities available to the people of Papua New Guinea?   Perhaps some readers didn’t even know ...

  A few days ago, I took the Political Compass test for a second time. The test, devised by politicalcompass.org , requires individuals to ...

  The ongoing public debate between “right to life” and “freedom to choose” advocates, seems to be falsely suggesting that a choice must be ...

  I expect that many readers of this blog will have spent some time this year thinking about the response of governments to the COVID-19 pan...