From the monthly archives:

March 2006

David Schmidtz on Inequality at Cato Unbound

March 6, 2006

This month’s Cato Unbound ought to be catnip for Fly Bottle readers. Dave Schmidtz kicks off this month’s issue with a great little essay about “When Inequality Matters.” It draws from his new book, Elements of Justice, which is, to my mind, the best book in libertarian political thought since Nozick, and truly deserves wide [...]

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Institutions, Boundaries, and Useless Statistics

March 2, 2006

Don Boudreaux has been doing the Lord’s work by pointing out that economies are not bounded by political borders. I’ve made the point before that the better a state’s institutions are, the less the state level is the appropriate final unit of analysis. Good institutions within a state’s borders are precisely what enables the people [...]

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