From the monthly archives:

June 2006

Minimum Rage

June 14, 2006

Cato Chairman Bill Niskanen has forgotten more economics than Ezra Klein and I together will ever know, but I come to his defense anyway against Ezra’s curious argument against the law of demand.

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Happiness as a Condition

June 13, 2006

I’ve mentioned St. Louis U. philosopher Dan Haybron a couple times before. His is the best stuff on happiness in the contemporary philosophical literature. And I’m almost a little bit disappointed that I agree with his position on the nature of happiness as thoroughly as I do. Haybron rejects both the hedonic and life satisfaction [...]

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I’m Grateful to Have This Chance to Say Something about Gratitude

June 7, 2006

Reihan is puzzled by my bafflement regarding Anya Kamenetz. In the course of his rather more defensible spin on what he takes Kamenetz to be saying, Reihan writes:
Kamenetz is advancing the argument that there is a danger in “performative passion.” Disguising the ultimately transactional nature of employment, by offering unpaid internships that are often very [...]

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The Greatest Happiness of the Greatest Number

June 5, 2006

Any good ethics textbook will tell you that “the greatest happiness for the greatest number” is something of a useless chimera of an ethical precept—imagine a gazelle with the legs of a tuna. There are two rather different principles jammed together here. “Promote the greatest happiness” is a principle exhorting us to maximize the [...]

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Freakoutonomics

June 5, 2006

I’ve got a new post up at Cato@Liberty.

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Delayed Self-Promotion

June 2, 2006

I’m failing to shill for myself!
My review of Benjamin Friedman’s The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth [pdf] is in the latest Cato Journal. Regular readers will notice that a lot of my criticisms of the book discussed on this here blog didn’t make it into the review. Had to keep it short. And there is [...]

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