President-elect Donald Trump’s intervention in the recent Carrier decision to keep more of its jobs within the United States does not signal an unprecedented break from past administrations. We need to look no further than the Obama administration’s support of Solyndra to find an example of an executive actively picking favorites in the market.
Trump’s attempts to pick industry winners and losers will ultimately fail
Trump’s attempts to pick industry winners and losers will ultimately fail
Recent Publications
- “Equal Opportunity, Not Reparations” in the Handbook of Equality of Opportunity (2024)
- “A Bayesian Solution to Hallsson’s Puzzle”
- Markets without Limits: Moral Virtues and Commercial Interests, 2nd Edition
- “Optimizing political influence: a jury theorem with dynamic competence and dependence”
- Why not anarchism?
Recent News
- Advocacy group concerned pay-for-plasma clinics expanding to Ontario will hurt voluntary donations
- Jason Brennan and Hélène Landemore, Debating Democracy (University of Zurich’s UBS Center, 2024)
- Jason Brennan “Everything Wrong with Democracy” on the Alex O’Connor Podcast (January 28, 2024)
- On the affirmative action ruling, the Supreme Court got it half right
- Is the effective altruism movement in trouble?