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More War: The Intervention in Libya
The war in Libya happened so fast that most of the commentariat seemed to be caught flat-footed. The international community had apparently decided to go to war without properly vetting their decisions with bloggers! As…
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Bleg: Honor, Status, Esteem
I’m preparing a version of my review of Anthony Appiah’s The Honor Code for publication, and I was hoping that folks might give me their favorite articles, cites, and quotes on esteem and honor. If…
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Are Status Emotions Defensible as Character Judgments?
One major defense of status emotions like deference and disdain is that they count as judgments of a person’s character. We defer to experts because they have a history of being right; we disdain scoundrels…
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Jonathan Haidt’s Conflation of the Personal and the Partisan
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There’s been a conflict running through Jonathan Haidt’s work that it’s time for him to address. On the one hand, he asserts that there are characteristic moral intuitions that distinguish partisan liberals from partisan conservatives…
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The Money Illusion Manifesto
Here’s the gist : I would like to argue that most of the really important public policy issues are not even part of the ongoing debate in the press. Here are some examples: 1. The…
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The Great Stagnation and the Possibilities of Redistribution
Tyler Cowen’s new e-pamphlet ( The Great Stagnation ) takes on the slowing gains to be had from social and technological progress and offers an interesting explanation of some of the trends that many people…
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Cap and Dividend
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Scu pointed me to this discussion of a Cap and Trade dividend. One issue, which would also apply to a carbon tax + dividend: this would hit exports but miss imports. Contrast that with a plain-old…
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Using Basic Income to Sell a Carbon Tax
You know, I may have been looking at the Basic Income + VAT wrong. Instead of using a value-added tax to fund the basic income, perhaps we should use a basic income grant to sell…
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More on Guaranteed Income
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Liveable4All dropped this video in the comments to my last post . It’s a short recording of Martin Luther King: “We are demanding an emergency to program to provide employment for everyone in need of…
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Does Basic Income + VAT “Solve” Immigration?
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[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="336"] US Customs and Border Protection officers enforce our labor market protections with paramilitary techniques.[/caption] One of my favorite liberal policies is the basic income proposal. The idea is that all citizens…