Danny S. posted an article on Back to the Drawing Board - Aug 23, 2009, 3:35 pm
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Danny S. posted an article on Back to the Drawing Board - Aug 23, 2009, 3:35 pm
Those of you who pay attention to this space may have noticed a substantial drop-off in the rate of postings on this blog. This has been a busy summer: I've been to North Carolina, Israel, Michigan, Wisconsin, and New York, with stops in Connecticut in between and, finally, a trip out to Arizona at...
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Danny S. posted an article on Back to the Drawing Board - Jul 15, 2009, 4:11 pm
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Danny S. posted an article on Back to the Drawing Board - Jul 15, 2009, 4:11 pm
So I was just alerted to the online availability of a brief presentation I gave at FEE's Young Scholars Colloquium last year, and I figured it would be worth posting here. I should note that the presentation was basically a response to not having enough student presentations to fill the time and ne...
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Danny S. posted an article on Back to the Drawing Board - Jul 4, 2009, 12:58 am
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Danny S. posted an article on Back to the Drawing Board - Jul 4, 2009, 12:58 am
So I've been having a discussion with Dr. Chartier over at the LiberaLaw blog about the role of the sovereign as a source of public reason in Hobbes' political philosophy, in response to an interesting post in which he discussed how a Hobbesian account might be consistent with market anarchism. Bec...
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Danny S. posted an article on Back to the Drawing Board - Jun 23, 2009, 6:39 am
Howdy, y'all. I just figured I should direct your attention to two conversations that have caught my interest recently, and which may be interesting to some of you as well. Over at the Austro-Athenian Empire blog, Dr. Long has posted a discussion of the proper definition of "socialism," entitled "P...
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Danny S. posted an article on Back to the Drawing Board - Jun 19, 2009, 11:09 am
In A Theory of Justice, Rawls writes (7): The basic structure is the primary subject of justice because its effects are so profound and present from the start. The intuitive notion here is that this structure contains various social positions and that men born into different social positions have d...
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Danny S. posted an article on Back to the Drawing Board - Jun 13, 2009, 5:38 pm
Jeez...I can't believe that there are two hundred posts on this frikkin' thing. I guess I don't really have much to say about this, but I figured it should get some kind of acknowledgment. Thanks so much to all of the incredibly interesting and intelligent people who read my ramblings and occasion...
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Danny S. posted an article on Back to the Drawing Board - Jun 12, 2009, 10:53 pm
So here's a fancy story: There's a commodity that exists in limited supplies on the Earth; let's call it awesomite. Awesomite can currently be harvested and brought to market for $5/oz, and at that price we can satisfy all the demand from people who are willing to pay that much. Eventually, some o...
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Danny S. posted an article on Back to the Drawing Board - Jun 7, 2009, 1:41 am
A little while ago, I wrote a post discussing why I didn't think that a tax on emissions of greenhouse gases would result in an overall decrease in buying power spread across the economy. In that post, I focused on how a policy might work out if it were slowly phased in; my intention was to set asi...
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Danny S. posted an article on Back to the Drawing Board - Jun 4, 2009, 2:30 pm
In his book, Living High and Letting Die: Our Illusion of Innocence, Peter Unger seeks to show that by allowing people to suffer and die in the third world, we are failing in our moral duties. He offers an intriguing thought experiment, which has been called the case of the "Vintage Sedan": Not tru...
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Danny S. posted an article on Back to the Drawing Board - May 24, 2009, 10:12 pm
So the other day I finally started reading Rawls' A Theory of Justice. I'm going to spend a lot of time trying to feel this book out, since it's pretty darn important that I get it right. In this post I want to trace a single stream of Rawls' thought, connecting the choice of the appropriate conce...
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