Steven Horwitz

Top 10 posts of 2020

10. SoHo debate quotes: Quine, Kuhn, Feyerabend, and Lentricchia. Follow-up to my debate with Thaddeus Russell. 9. Frightened Children Won’t Solve the World’s Problems. With link to my Wall Street Journal article, “Global Problems Are Too Big for Little Kids.” 8. Libertarian Social Justice? Hicks and Horwitz. At Friedman 8 conference. 7. “The Stain of Slavery” […]

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Libertarian Social Justice? Hicks and Horwitz at Friedman 8 [transcription]

How Should Libertarians Respond to the Social Justice Movement? I was in a friendly debate with Dr. Steven Horwitz about this topic, hosted by the Friedman 8 Conference, Australia, July 2020. My opening remarks are transcribed below after moderator John Humphreys’s introduction. John Humphreys [Moderator]: I’ve been really looking forward to this one. I think

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Social Justice for Libertarians? Hicks and Horwitz at Friedman 8

My friendly debate/discussion with Dr. Steven Horwitz about whether advocates of freedom can or should make common cause with the Social Justice movement. After the introductions by the organizers of the Friedman 8 conference in Australia, my opening remarks run from minute 1 to about minute 22. Then Professor Horwitz gives his initial remarks, at

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Is Austrian economics anti-empirical? (Horwitz, Caplan, Selgin, and Boettke)

[I’m re-posting this good discussion from 2012 at Cato Unbound.] An instructive trio of essays by economists at Cato Unbound about Austrian economics’ reputation — especially Mises’s praxeological version — for being strongly a priori rationalist: Is Austrian economics anti-empiricist? Steve Horwitz says no. Bryan Caplan says yes. George Selgin also says yes. To Selgin’s

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Hayek and Rand on values — APEE 2011 conference

For this year’s conference of the Association of Private Enterprise Education, I am organizing and chairing a session on two giants of the twentieth century — Friedrich Hayek and Ayn Rand — with four scholars comparing their views on values and political economy. Topic: Hayek and Rand on Values Chair: Stephen Hicks, Ph.D., Rockford College,

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