Cass Sunstein

Are You Smart Enough to Live in a Free Society? [Good Life series]

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Honestly now: Do you have what it takes? We all like to think we’re smarter than average, but the math is cruel. Half of us are below median intelligence, and some of us are considerably lower. So why should we think that freedom is a good policy for everyone? I believe freedom is the best […]

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Three more anti-free-market arguments (UFM seminar)

Leave a Comment / Business Ethics, Economics, Human Nature, Politics, Religion / Stephen Hicks

In this third Socratic seminar on the Best Arguments against Free-market Capitalism, we take up three arguments: a) the paternalist argument that human beings are incapable of living freely, b) the collectivist argument that wealth is a social creation (at 11 minutes), and c) the religious argument that value is not of this world (at

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