Paper on Globalization and Governance
Coming Soon to an Academic Portuguese-Language Bookstore Near You! I gave a paper at a conference on governance at the University of Aveiro, Portugal in 2006 and it’s about to…
Books
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Exit Rights and Social Contracts
My chapter on “No Exit: Framing the Problem of Justice” from Ordered Anarchy: Jasay and His Surroundings (ed. by Hartmut Kliemt and Hardy Bouillon; London: Ashgate, 2008) is now available…
Boudreaux on Globalization!!! Its Grreeaat!
I just got Don Boudreaux’s book Globalization. It’s a good read and full of evidence and clear-headed analysis.
No Exit: Framing the Problem of Justice
My essay on the “exit closure” and the social contractarian theory of John Rawls just came out in a book edited by Hardy Bouillon and Hartmut Kliemt, Ordered Anarchy: Jasay…
Arabic Edition of “In Defense of Global Capitalism” Reviewed in Al Hayat
The Arabic edition of In Defense of Global Capitalism by Johan Norberg has been reviewed in a number of Arabic papers, but today the prestigious Al Hayat ran its review.
Google Books Rocks!
I’m working on a lecture to deliver in Hamburg on “Freedom Properly Understood,” so I’ve been reading up on various theories of “positive freedom,” including Amartya Sen’s Development as Freedom…
An Elegant Treatment of Twentieth Century Collectivism
David Boaz judiciously reviews Wolfgang Schivelbusch’s excellent bookThree New Deals: Reflections on Rooseveltâ??s America, Mussoliniâ??s Italy, and Hitlerâ??s Germany, 1933â??1939 in Reason: “Hitler, Mussolini, Roosevelt — What FDR had in…
Is the Welfare State Justified?
I had the pleasure of interviewing Daniel Shapiro, an old friend and author of a very important new book, at an Institute for Humane Studies function on Friday. The book…