Last week saw large scale strike action from public sector workers here in the UK, campaigning against changes to pension … Continue reading “Cuts, Responsibility and the Public Sector”

The economic historian Professor Sheilagh Ogilvie is an intellectual heroine of modern classical liberalism. Her work on the operation of … Continue reading “Sheilagh Ogilvie: Classical Liberal Heroine”

When advancing the case for ‘free markets ‘ classical liberals are often chided for failing to recognise the wisdom of … Continue reading “Down with Karl Polanyi”

I haven’t been able to post for the last week or so owing to my lecturing on the Institute for … Continue reading “Sweat Shops and the Need for Libertarian Moral Outrage”

I am a Libertarian. I believe that market processes based on secure property rights and competitive ‘exit’ provide the best … Continue reading “Institutional Failure and the Tragedy of Climate Change”

In this final round of the H versus H contest I want to question the claim that communication in markets … Continue reading “Hayek versus Habermas: Round 3”

Among the themes to emerge from ‘happiness economics’ one seized on by those disapproving of open markets and the decision-making … Continue reading “The burden of ‘too much choice’”

In a recent post I pointed out that Habermas’s theory of communicative ethics and deliberative democracy fails to recognise a … Continue reading “Hayek versus Habermas: Round 2”

Jurgen Habermas is one of the most influential political philosophers of the last fifty years. Though he has now, thankfully, … Continue reading “Hayek versus Habermas”