Will Wilkinson and Brink Lindsay once proposed that libertarians have more in common with liberals than they do with conservatives. But now that we collectively wait for the Keynesian surge to fry the system, Jonah Goldberg and John Hood wanted to raise the question to libertarians: siding with the left under Bush was one thing, [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Difference Principle’
October 8, 2008
Applied Nozick: Finessing The Entitlement Theory
Richard Epstein uses Robert Nozick’s entitlement theory of justice to interpret the ideology behind the financial meltdown. From Epstein’s latest Forbes column:
Behind this lending fiasco lay the strong collective preference for the “patterned principles” of justice that Robert Nozick attacked so powerfully in his 1974 masterpiece, Anarchy, State, and Utopia.
Believers in patterned principles hold that there [...]
