A Question on Human Rights Abuses and Secession
It is a fairly common belief that secession is legitimate in cases where it is necessary to stop human rights abuses. There is a somewhat less common view that secession is legitimate if it is...
View ArticleCould Privilege-Checking Lead to “Conservative” Conclusions?
Here I will use “conservative” loosely to refer to the general “personal responsibility” and “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” attitudes the American right might generally support. My foray into...
View ArticleImmigration and the Zero Lower Bound: A Twist on the “Alien Invasion” Metaphor
I was thinking earlier today about the effect of immigration on interest rates. In particular, I thought of an unusual argument for immigration restrictions when short-run interest rates are at the...
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Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig Demolished Libertarians. And It Was Beautiful.
The New Republic staff writer Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig recently penned a devastating critique of libertarians, where she argued that the beliefs of self-described libertarians do not square with the...
View ArticleThe Problem with Divestment: Helping Wealthy Investors Instead of Victims
A lot of social movements call for divestment of the shares of firms which are opposed to their goals. In particular, many colleges and universities have faced student protests demanding that college...
View ArticleCan Cultural Individualists Commandeer “Feminism”?
Note the use of the phrase “cultural individualists.” This post regards people who value individualism on a cultural and/or personal level. This is in contrast to libertarianism, which is a political...
View ArticleImmigration might be good, but does it look good?
One claim about liberalized immigration policy is that it will raise the incomes of immigrants and quite possibly natives, but that average incomes of First World countries will fall. How is this...
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What the market expects from Trump
It’s been well over a year since anything’s been published on this blog. Good to be back! Justin Wolfers, professor of economics at the University of Michigan, has recently argued that the stock...
View ArticleSome thoughts on market expectations from Trump
My previous post on what stock markets expected from Trump’s economic policies relied on a paper from Eric Zitzewitz and Justin Wolfers, claiming that markets expected S&P 500 stocks to be worth...
View ArticleSome updates (and commentary on my old posts)
It’s been over a year since anyone last posted on this blog. I’m much more active on Twitter, so you could follow me there. One problem with creating content is that a lot of things one could post are...
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