Does his taking this job, improve what Krugman considers the “Income Inequality” problem?
Why not give this position to an unemployed economics professor?

From Liberty Crier

Income Inequality Institute Will Pay Paul Krugman $25,000 Per Month

 

Recently Sheldon Richman has been musing about what libertarians should be concerned about.

Two essays reflect his discussion:
http://fff.org/explore-freedom/article/tgif-what-social-animals-owe-to-each-other/

http://fff.org/explore-freedom/article/tgif-in-praise-of-thick-libertarianism/

He seems to be addressing some of the issues discussed at:
http://bleedingheartlibertarians.com/

We should refrain from these efforts to complicate what it means to be a libertarian.

Both Sheldon and the Bleeding Heart Libertarians are correct in wanting people to consider moral positions that may not be derivable from the Non-Aggression Principle. But rather than attempting to expand the definition of libertarian,  they should consider that ones philosophical system can have more than one principle.

Just as Euclidian geometry has more than one axiom, a philosophical system can have multiple axioms or principles. They do not all have to be derivable from one source.

No matter what we would like to be true, the way the world works is “Might makes Right”. By “right” I mean actions/possessions that people can do/keep without others interfering.

As libertarians, we are trying to gain the “might” by convincing enough people that the NAP is the best way to base how people deal with each other. That’s why I prefer referring to the NAP as the Non-Aggression Axiom. As an axiom, it does not have to be proven or justified, rather it just has to be assumed and followed.

One of the differences between libertarians and Objectivists is that that libertarians don’t care how people decide to follow the NAP – for example, whether through reason or because God said so are both okay.

I recommend that we consider as libertarians everyone who wants a governmental system based on the NAP,  and derive terminology for those who who have a cluster of principles that include the NAP as a separate entity.

While one may consider, that one category is a subset of another, it is simpler to consider each principle or category as independent.

From Reason TV

From YouTube

Larken Rose here

responds to Stevbve Shrives here

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an excerpt:
“Prior to the recent regime-change operation in Ukraine, the U.S. government had sent some $5 billion of U.S. taxpayer money into the country. No, not into the coffers of the government but rather into the hands of private groups. The U.S government claims that the purpose of the money was to help spread democracy.  The U.S. mainstream press lapped it up.

There is one great big problem, however, with that reasoning, one that the mainstream press clearly is unable to see. The president of Ukraine — the president that the private groups violently ousted from office — was democratically elected. Those $5 billion of U.S. taxpayer monies were used to destroy democracy, not fortify it.”

HOW AMERICANS CAN HELP UKRAINIANS

by Sheldon RichmanMarch 13, 2014

Here is an excerpt from
VLAD THE BAD STEALS A MARCH ON THE WEST
by Eric Margolis
http://ericmargolis.com/2014/03/vlad-the-bad-steals-a-march-on-the-west/

The US won’t accept that Russia has any legitimate spheres of influence, while Washington’s span the globe. Last week, US Secretary of State John Kerry, who used to be a sensible fellow before becoming corrupted by power, blasted Russia: “you just don’t invade a country under a phony pretext!”

I guess Kerry has never heard of the US invasions of the Dominican Republic, Lebanon, Grenada, Panama, Haiti, Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia and Libya. Or can’t remember Vietnam and the Gulf of Tonkin “incident.”

Kerry should cut the hypocrisy and get to work on a diplomatic settlement. Two major nuclear-armed powers cannot – must not – be allowed to confront one another.

Ukraine could turn out to be the 1914 Bosnia-Herzegovina of our era if we don’t stop primitive breast-beating over a region no one could even find on a map until recently.

Published 2014-03-04
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Steven Landsburg, The Armchair Economist
THE IOWA CAR CROP

http://www.walkerd.people.cofc.edu/Readings/Trade/iowacarcrop.pdf

“International trade is nothing but a form of technology. The fact that there is a place called Japan, with people and factories, is quite irrelevant to Americans’ well-being. To analyze trade policies, we might as well assume that Japan is a giant machine with mysterious inner workings that convert wheat into cars.”