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Raving Bully Model of Property
Property is theft, some say. And this could be true. Suppose there were an idyllic community sharing all things in common, peacefully. In a model akin to Olson’s roving bandit, a raving bully within...
View ArticlePropertarian Hokey Pokey
Since I’ve come to know the Sweet Talk Kids, the property rights thing has been brought forward regularly as an entree of interest, like hotdogs, chips and kool-aid for Saturday night TV. I’m not...
View ArticleUber, but for Virtue
@adamgurri @ClarkHat I model moral budgets the same way I do household wealth. Same econ analysis applies. — Samuel Q Wilson, America's Favorite President (@Spivonomist) January 22, 2015 @adamgurri...
View ArticleEven MLK Cheated On His Wife
In the beginning of the 20th century, it was relatively easy to be a professional football player. If you were there, you were able to run at someone and hit them, and you were able to take those same...
View ArticleThe Miracle of Comparative Advantage
My co-blogger Boatfloating makes the point that excellence in one field does not necessarily mean that excellence in other fields, and this is a good thing! Who among us is world-class at everything?...
View ArticleTrading representation for equality
I would be unsurprised within my lifetime to see Facebook, Google, and other such organizations formalize their positions as pseudo-states, replete with diplomats and domestic and foreign policies. As...
View ArticleLooking For the Ground
I wanted to learn how to play Beethoven on the piano, so I hired a music teacher to teach me how to play Beethoven’s piano music. I already had rudimentary piano-playing skills, so, to me, it was all a...
View ArticleEfficient Markets and Communities of Rhetoric
There are few things more obnoxious than the know-it-all first year philosophy student. You know the one. He (and yes it’s usually a “he”) thinks he can understand everything with the barest of...
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Is Philosophy Information Efficient?
In Adam’s last post he proposed an Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) for philosophical debate. As a rule of thumb, it states that if you have heard a good argument for X, someone from camp Y has...
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Elegance and Sophistication, Moderates and Radicals
“When in doubt, favor elegance over sophistication” is a mantra I picked up some years ago, but I have to say that the last year of research has moved me away from this position. The application seemed...
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