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May 2007: Should Coercion Count? The Place of Liberty in Economic Theory

Should Coercion Count? The Place of Liberty in Economic Theory

» About this issue

Lead Essay

» Economics and the Distinction Between Coercive and Voluntary Action by Daniel Klein

Reaction Essays

» Coercion as a Political Concept by Liam Murphy

» Coercive Regulation and the Balance of Freedom by Edward Glaeser

» Voluntary and Coercive Action: A Key Distinction in the Overall System of Liberty by Richard A. Epstein

The Conversation

» Liberty and Semantics: Response to Murphy, Glaeser, and Epstein by Daniel Klein

» Strategies of Cooperation by Richard A. Epstein

» The Meanings of “Liberty” by Liam Murphy

» What We Mean by “Liberty” and “Wealth” by Richard A. Epstein

» Extra-Legal Institutions and Classical Liberal “Liberty” by Daniel Klein

» The Innocuous Indeterminacy of “Liberty” by Liam Murphy

» Classical Liberal “Liberty” and the Dangers of Indeterminacy by Richard A. Epstein

» If We Must Have “Rights,” Don’t Forget the Subscripts by Daniel Klein

» Where’s the Nominalism? by Liam Murphy

» The Centrality of Liberty by Edward Glaeser

Best of the Blogs

» Property and Coercion by Richard Chappell

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