Category Archives: Libertarian Thought

The Libertarian as a Logical Thinker

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An excerpt from my latest essay, on libertarian thinking as a process rather than as an outcome.

What I am suggesting is that libertarians, rather than defining ourselves in terms of what we believe is right, could instead define ourselves in terms of how one should arrive at beliefs about what is right. Our goal should be to rely as much as possible on logic and as little as possible on heuristic biases. If using these methods leads to the conclusions that are traditionally libertarian, fine. If not, then we should change our conclusions, not our methods.

I think it is best to read the entire essay.

Other Recent Essays of Mine

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Reforming the Housing Transaction offers suggested improvements in the real estate process.

Who Needs Home Ownership? suggests that the social benefits of home onwership are overstated.

How to Think About QE3 gives an “on the one hand, on the other” analysis.

Subjective Value and Government Intervention looks at how the Austrian economics focus on subjective value tends to bias one against government intervention. Conversely, justification for government intervention often seems to require an expert to calculate value objectively, and this is problematic.

Libertarians and Group Norms points out that libertarians may not have a simple way to respond to the fact that people display group loyalty.