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June 18 - 24, 2016 Bryn Mawr University

HOW TO USE THIS HANDBOOK

This handbook provides all the relevant information you need
to navigate your seminar this summer. Please bring it with you
to all the main sessions as it will inform where you need to go

and how to get there. You can even take notes in it!

CONTENTS

ABOUT IHS / 5
CAMPUS INFORMATION / 7

SCHEDULE / 8
TALK OUTLINES / 15

WHAT’S NEXT? / 58

IHS Founder Baldy Harper (right) was an ardent advocate
for free and open discussion of ideas. He is captured here in
conversation with economist Murray Rothbard (left) whose
strong opinions about government and society continue to
provoke discussion today.

ABOUT IHS

The Institute for Humane Studies (IHS) was founded in 1961
by Dr. F. A. “Baldy” Harper, a former economics professor at
Cornell University. Part of a generation that experienced
two devastating world wars as well as the rise of numerous
totalitarian dictatorships, Harper set up an institute devoted
to research and education in the conviction that greater
understanding of human affairs and freedom would foster
peace, prosperity, and social harmony.

To Harper, history demonstrated the great human capacity
to solve problems through “the practice and potentials of
freedom,” and he envisioned this as the primary focus of the
Institute for Humane Studies. “Not in government or force,
not in slavery or war, but in the creative, and thereby spiritual,
power of freedom, shall our inspiration be found,” he wrote in
an early proposal for the Institute.

Based for many years in Menlo Park, California, IHS moved
in 1985 to Fairfax, Virginia, and associated with George
Mason University. At George Mason, IHS has been able to
pursue its mission more effectively in cooperation with other
organizations affiliated with the university. Today, with a primary
focus on students, the Institute continues the work begun by
Baldy Harper.

The mission of IHS is to support the achievement of a freer
society by discovering and facilitating the development of
talented, productive students, scholars, and other intellectuals
who share an interest in liberty and who demonstrate the
potential to help change the current climate of opinion to one
more congenial to the principles and practice of freedom.

Through its programs, the Institute promotes the study of
liberty across a broad range of disciplines, encouraging
understanding, open inquiry, rigorous scholarship, and creative
problem solving.

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CAMPUS INFORMATION

Dorm Address Gym access
Pembroke Hall–East & West Available for free,
Monday - Friday,
220 N. Merion Avenue, from 7:00a.m. - 6:00p.m.
Bryn Mawr, PA 19010.

Laundry Public Computers
Washes are free in the dorm, but Public computers are available in
you need to provide your own
the campus center and library.
detergent.

WiFi Parking
Wifi is found throughout Parking is available for free. You
campus. There is a small fee to
use the on-campus wifi and staff will receive a parking permit
during check-in as well as a
will give you access.
specific lot assignment.

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SCHEDULE

S AT U R D AY, J U N E 1 8 th

1DAY 1:00p.m. - 3:00p.m. Registration

McBride Gateway at Pembroke Hall East and West

3:00p.m. - 4:15p.m. Opening Remarks and Activity

Park Science Center

4:15p.m. - 6:00p.m. Prices, Knowledge, and Spontaneous Order,

Dr. Howard Baetjer

Park Science Center

6:00p.m. - 7:15p.m. Dinner

Rhoads Dining Hall

7:15p.m. - 9:00p.m. Mill’s Harm Principle, Dr. James S. Taylor

Park Science Center

9:00p.m. - 9:15p.m. Break

9:15p.m. - 11:00p.m. Social
Campus Center

S U N D AY, J U N E 1 9 th

2DAY 8:00a.m. - 9:00a.m. Breakfast

Rhoads Dining Hall

9:00a.m. - 10:45a.m. Good Laws Are Hard to Make, Dr. Lauren Hall

Park Science Center

10:45a.m. - 11:00a.m. Break

11:00a.m. - 12:45p.m. The American Founding in Theory,
Dr. Robert McDonald

Park Science Center

12:45p.m. - 2:00p.m. Lunch

Rhoads Dining Hall

2:00p.m. - 4:15p.m. Free Time

4:15p.m. - 6:00p.m. Profit, Loss, & Discovery, Dr. Howard Baetjer

Park Science Center

6:00p.m. - 7:15p.m. Dinner

Rhoads Dining Hall

7:15p.m. - 9:00p.m. The Constitution, Limited Government,

and Liberty, Mr. Clark Neily

Park Science Center

9:00p.m. - 9:15p.m. Break

9:15p.m. - 10:15p.m. Discussion Groups

Park Science Center

10:15p.m. - 11:30p.m. Social
Campus Center

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M O N D AY, J U N E 2 0 TH

3DAY 8:00a.m. - 9:00a.m. Breakfast

10 Rhoads Dining Hall

9:00a.m. - 10:45a.m. The American Founding in Practice,

Dr. Robert McDonald

Park Science Center

10:45a.m. - 11:00a.m. Break

11:00a.m. - 12:45p.m. The Liberated Beast, Dr. Lauren Hall
Park Science Center

12:45p.m. - 2:00p.m. Lunch

Rhoads Dining Hall

2:00p.m. - 4:15p.m. Free Time

4:15p.m. - 6:00p.m. Can We Torture the Children of Salem?,

Dr. James S. Taylor

Park Science Center

6:00p.m. - 7:15p.m. Dinner

Rhoads Dining Hall

7:15p.m. - 9:00p.m. Institutions and Incentives,

Dr. Howard Baetjer

Park Science Center

9:00p.m. - 9:15p.m. Break

9:15p.m. - 10:15p.m. Discussion Groups

Park Science Center

10:15p.m. - 11:30p.m. Social

Campus Center

4DAY T U E S D AY, J U N E 2 1 ST

11 8:00a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Breakfast

Rhoads Dining Hall

9:00a.m. - 10:45a.m. Justice, Dr. James S. Taylor

Park Science Center

10:45a.m. - 11:00a.m. Break

11:00a.m. - 12:45p.m. Economic Liberty and Occupational

Licensing, Mr. Clark Neily

Park Science Center

12:45p.m. - 2:00p.m. Lunch

Rhoads Dining Hall

2:00p.m. - 11:30p.m. Free Time

W E D N E S D AY, J U N E 2 2 ND

8:00a.m. - 9:00a.m. Breakfast

5DAY Rhoads Dining Hall

9:00a.m. - 10:45a.m. Regulating Regulators: Governments
vs. Markets, Dr. Howard Baetjer

Park Science Center

10:45a.m. - 11:00a.m. Break

11:00a.m. - 12:45p.m. Self-Defense and the Second Amendment,
Mr. Clark Neily

Park Science Center

12:45p.m. - 2:00p.m. Lunch

Rhoads Dining Hall

2:00p.m. - 4:15p.m. Free Time

4:15p.m. - 6:00p.m. Why We Should Legalize Organ Markets,

Dr. James S.Taylor

Park Science Center

6:00p.m. - 7:15p.m. Dinner

Rhoads Dining Hall

7:15p.m. - 9:00p.m. Women and the State,

Dr. Lauren Hall

Park Science Center

9:00p.m. - 9:15p.m. Break

9:15p.m. - 10:15p.m. Discussion Groups

Park Science Center

10:15p.m. - 11:30p.m. Social

Campus Center

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T H U R S D AY, J U N E 2 3 RD

8:00a.m. - 9:00a.m. Breakfast

6DAY Rhoads Dining Hall

9:00a.m. - 10:45a.m. Over-criminalization, Mr. Clark Neily

Park Science Center

10:45a.m. - 11:00a.m. Break

11:00a.m. - 12:45p.m. Political Frameworks and Freedom,
Dr. Lauren Hall

Park Science Center

12:45p.m. - 2:00p.m. Lunch

Rhoads Dining Hall

2:00p.m. - 4:15p.m. Free Time

4:15p.m. - 6:00p.m. The Market Revolution,

Dr. Robert McDonald

Park Science Center

6:00p.m. - 7:15p.m. Dinner

Rhoads Dining Hall

7:15p.m. - 8:00p.m. Discussion Groups

Park Science Center

8:00p.m. - 8:15p.m. Break

8:15p.m. - 9:45p.m. Closing Remarks and Faculty Panel

Park Science Center

9:45p.m. - 11:30p.m. Social

Campus Center

F R I D AY, J U N E 2 4 TH

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7DAY 8:00a.m. - 9:00a.m. Breakfast

Rhoads Dining Hall

9:00a.m. Travel Home

*Participants should vacate the dorms no later than noon

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TALK OUTLINES

Prices, Knowledge, and Spontaneous Order, Dr. Howard Baetjer / 16
Mill’s Harm Principle, Dr. James S. Taylor / 18

Good Laws Are Hard to Make, Dr. Lauren Hall / 20
The American Founding in Theory, Dr. Robert McDonald / 22

Profit, Loss, & Discovery, Dr. Howard Baetjer / 24
The Constitution, Limited Government, and Liberty, Mr. Clark Neily / 26

The American Founding in Practice, Dr. Robert McDonald / 28
The Liberated Beast, Dr. Lauren Hall / 30

Can We Torture the Children of Salem?, Dr. James S. Taylor / 32
Institutions and Incentives, Dr. Howard Baetjer / 34
Justice, Dr. James S. Taylor / 36

Economic Liberty and Occupational Licensing, Mr. Clark Neily / 38
Regulating Regulators: Government vs. Markets, Dr. Howard Baetjer / 40

Self-Defense and the Second Amendment, Mr. Clark Neily / 42
Why We Should Legalize Organ Markets, Dr. James S. Taylor / 44

Women and the State, Dr. Lauren Hall / 46
Over-criminalization, Mr. Clark Neily / 48
Political Frameworks and Freedom, Dr. Lauren Hall / 50
The Market Revolution, Dr. Robert McDonald / 52
Closing Session and Faculty Panel / 54

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Prices, Knowledge, and Spontaneous Order

Dr. Howard Baetjer

1. Three lessons and a question from Leonard Read’s “I, Pencil”
1.
2.
3.
What provides the coordination?

2. The knowledge problem of central planning – a thought experiment about
a railroad

3. How the knowledge problem is solved in market economies – a variation on
the thought experiment

4. The price system as telecommunications system - F. A. Hayek’s “The Use of
Knowledge in Society”

5. What happens when prices are prevented from doing their job: some cases
of price controls.

Summary: Ever-changing market prices are society’s means of communicating
to all, in a manner usable by all, the specialized knowledge of all. Public policy
should foster this communication by avoiding price controls and distortions.

Suggested Readings
Henry Hazlitt. Economics in One Lesson. New York: Three Rivers Press, 1988.
Russell Roberts. The Price of Everything. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009.
Howard Baetjer and Tomasz Kaye. “What If There Were No Prices?” Learn Liberty video: youtube.com/watch?v=zkPGfTEZ_r4.

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Mill’s Harm Principle

Dr. James S. Taylor

1. The only reason for which persons are justified in using force against
another is to prevent her from causing harm to others against their wishes.

2. The “Harm Principle” is non-paternalistic, and applies only to rational adults.

3. The “Harm Principle” should be used to guide public policy. Not to do so is
to engage in unjust coercion.

4. If the “Harm Principle” is used, many activities that are now criminalized will
become legal.

Suggested Readings
John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing Co., 1978).
John Skorupski, Why Read Mill Today? (Routledge, 2006).
John Gray, J.S. Mill’s On Liberty in Focus (Routledge, 1991).
C. L. Ten, Mill on Liberty (Oxford University Press, 1980).
Walter Block, Defending the Undefendable (Fox and Wilkes, 1991; 2nd edition).

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Good Laws Are Hard to Make

Dr. Lauren Hall

1. Law of unintended consequences

2. Spontaneous orders
2a. What they are
2b. How they operate
2c. Why do they matter?

3. What are the different kinds of laws?
3a. Cosmos
3b. Taxis
4. Good laws must have certain characteristics
4a. General
4b. Predictable
4c. Avoidable

5. Why do spontaneous orders matter for politics?
5a. Certification
5b. Minimum wage

6. Abuse of rule of law
6a. Crony capitalism

Suggested Readings
Online Library of Liberty, “Spontaneous Order”: oll.libertyfund.org/groups/104
Stossel, John. “Spontaneous Order”. fee.org/articles/spontaneous-order
Sugden, Robert. “Spontaneous Order.” The Journal of Economic Perspectives 3, no. 4 (1989): 85-97.

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The American Founding in Theory

Dr. Robert McDonald

1. Lockean liberalism argued that the only legitimate purpose of government
is the protection of individuals’ rights to life, liberty, and property.

2. Classical republicanism maintained that human vice and corruption often
caused the process of government to undermine its purpose.

3. These ideas provided a foreboding context within which American colonists
viewed British imperial policy after the Seven Years’War.

4. The Declaration of Independence reaffirmed government’s Lockean pur-
pose while the Constitution and Bill of Rights attempted to republicanize
the political decision-making process.

Suggested Readings
Appleby, Joyce. Liberalism and Republicanism in the Historical Imagination. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1992.
Bailyn, Bernard. The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1967.
Becker, Carl. The Declaration of Independence: A Study in the History of Political Ideas. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1922.
Colbourn, Trevor. The Lamp of Experience: Whig History and the Intellectual Origins of the American Revolution. Chapel Hill, N.C.:

University of North Carolina Press, 1965.

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Profit, Loss, & Discovery

Dr. Howard Baetjer

Summary: Profit and loss play an essential role in improving the human condition.
They direct discovery of ever-better ways of satisfying human wants
and needs.

1. Value is subjective.

2. Exchange entails mutual advantage, not exploitation.

3. Profit or loss = yield - cost. Hence economic profit is a consequence of
wealth creation.

4. The social role of profit and loss: they help us discover what to do and how to
do it, to create the most value for others. Discovery of:

Ÿ best uses of known resources for known ends
Ÿ new resources, products, methods, technologies – “creative destruction”
and innovation

5. Because we’re ignorant of what will work and what won’t until we try...
...and because productive resources for this experimentation are scarce...
...society needs a means of sorting good ideas (and entrepreneurs) from bad:

Source of variation Means of selection

Biology
Economy

Profit through the economic means in free market capitalism differs utterly from
profit through the political means in crony capitalism.

Suggested Readings
Howard Baetjer Jr. Free Our Markets, A Citizens’ Guide to Essential Economics. Thornton, N.H.: Jane Philip Publications, 2013.
Fred I. Kent. “A Letter to His Grandson,” in Free Market Economics, A Basic Reader. Irvington-On-Hudson: Foundation for Economic

Education, 1975: networkforafreesociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/69_kent_LettertoGrandson.pdf

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The Constitution, Limited Government, and Liberty

Mr. Clark Neily

1. What is a “constitution” and why have one?

2. Individuals have rights, governments have powers

3. American constitutional law in 60 seconds (give or take)

4. Cessa regnare, si non vis judicare
(“Cease to rule if you do not wish to adjudicate”)

Suggested Readings
Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution.
Roger Pilon, The Purpose and Limits of Government (1999) cato.org/pubs/catosletters/cl-13.pdf
Chip Mellor and Robert Levy, The Dirty Dozen (2008).
Randy Barnett, Restoring the Lost Constitution (2005).
Michael Kent Curtis, No State Shall Abridge (1986).
Richard Epstein, How Progressives Rewrote the Constitution (2006).

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The American Founding in Practice

Dr. Robert McDonald

1. What were the guiding principles of the Revolution?

2. Liberty (but not for the enslaved?)

3. Political equality (but not for women and landless men?)

4. Republicanism (except in time of war?)

5. Limited Government (except in the case of the Louisiana Purchase?)

6. The experience of the founders shows that fidelity to principles mattered
a great deal, even when principles came into conflict.

Suggested Readings
Freehling, William W. “The Founding Fathers and Slavery.” American Historical Review 71(1972): 81-93.
Mayer, David N. The Constitutional Thought of Thomas Jefferson. Charlottesville, Va.: University Press of Virginia, 1994.
Morgan, Edmund S. American Slavery-American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia. New York: W. W. Norton, 1975.
Royster, Charles. A Revolutionary People at War: The Continental Army and American Character. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North

Carolina Press, 1979.
Zagarri, Rosemarie. “The Rights of Man and Woman in Post-Revolutionary America.” William & Mary Quarterly 55 (1998): 203-30.

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The Liberated Beast

Dr. Lauren Hall

1. Evolutionary Psychology
1a. Naturalistic fallacy

2. Human nature:
2a. Adam Smith
2b. Friedrich Hayek
2c. Evolutionary theory

3. Case Study: Property Rights
3a. Where does property come from?
3b. Property in animals
3c. Kibbutzim and the abolition of property

4. “Natural” classical liberal institutions

5. Why classical liberalism works

Suggested Readings
Richard Pipes, Property and Freedom.
Steven Pinker, The Blank Slate.
Larry Arnhart, Darwinian Conservatism: cato-unbound.org/2010/07/12/larry-arnhart/darwinian-liberalism
Matt Ridley, The Origins of Virtue, The Rational Optimist, and many others.
Jared Diamond, The Third Chimpanzee.

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Can We Torture the Children of Salem?

Dr. James S. Taylor

1. What rights are.

2. Distinction between legal and positive rights.

3. Where do rights come from?

4. Distinction between negative and positive rights.

5. Why positive rights are less important than negative rights
(and might not even exist).

Suggested Readings
Richard Tuck, Natural Rights Theories: Their Origin and Development (Cambridge University Press, 1982).
John Finnis, Natural Law and Natural Rights (Oxford University Press, 1980).
Tibor Machan, The Right Road to Radical Freedom (Imprint Academic, 2007).
Robert Nozick, Anarchy, State, and Utopia (Basic Books, 1974).
John Locke, Two Treatises of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration (Digireads.com, 2005).
Loren Lomasky, Persons, Rights, and the Moral Community (Oxford University Press, 1990).

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Institutions and Incentives

Dr. Howard Baetjer

1. The form of ownership affects incentives:
Ÿ logging in the (publicly-owned) Tongass National Forest
Ÿ dual use in (privately-owned) Rainey Wildlife Sanctuary
Ÿ protecting wild African elephants

2. The form of association affects incentives: the (dis)connection of
performance and funding:
Ÿ mail and package delivery
Ÿ managing funds for those in need
Ÿ elementary schools

3. People pursue their self-interest ... in both private and public life.

4. Incentives in government regulation v. those in regulation by market forces
Ÿ licensing of hairdressers and the capture theory of regulation
Ÿ pharmaceutical regulation and Type I and Type II error

5. The special interest effect – the concentration of benefits and diffusion of
costs generate problematic incentives.

Summary: Free society institutions entail incentives for mutually advantageous
interaction.

Suggested Readings
Milton and Rose Friedman. Free to Choose. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1980.
Walter Williams. The State Against Blacks. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1982.
The website of the Institute for Justice: ij.org

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Justice

Dr. James S. Taylor

1. Hume distinguishes between natural and artificial virtues. For Hume, a
natural virtue is a virtue that we would approve of independently of any
social conventions that deemed it a virtue; an artificial virtue is a trait of
character, or a disposition, that we need for successful co-operation within
impersonal groups.

2. Hume considers justice—by which he means respect for property rights—
to be an artificial virtue. He also considers fidelity to one’s promises to be an
artificial virtue.

3. Hume holds that while it is natural to have property rights, the precise
delineation of these rights is artificial. He also argues that property rights do
not begin as moralized ascriptions of rights, but that this occurs as a way to
reinforce them.

4. Robert Nozick on just holdings—and why unequal holdings can be just.

Suggested Readings
David Hume, ed. David Fate Norton and Mary J. Norton, A Treatise of Human Nature: A Critical Edition (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2007).
Robert Nozick, Anarchy, State, and Utopia (Basic Books, 1974).
Baier, Annette, “Hume’s Account of Social Artifice — Its Origins and Originality,” Ethics, 98 (1988): 757–778.
Gauthier, David, “Artificial Virtues and the Sensible Knave,” Hume Studies, 18, 2 (1992): 401–427.
Harrison, Jonathan, Hume’s Theory of Justice (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1981).
Ed Feser, “Robert Nozick,” Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Available: iep.utm.edu/nozick/

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Economic Liberty and Occupational Licensing

Mr. Clark Neily

1. What do you want to be when you grow up?

2. When you build a better mousetrap... you get to learn about
public-choice economics

3. Why does government regulate occupations?

4. Is there a constitutional right to earn a living in the occupation of
your choice?

Suggested Readings
Tim Sandefur, The Right to Earn a Living: Economic Freedom and the Law (2010)

chapman.edu/law/_files/publications/CLR-6-timothy-sandefur.pdf
Lochner v. State of New York (1905), available at goo.gl/gZClQG
David Bernstein, Rehabilitating Lochner: Defending Individual Rights against Progressive Reform (2012).
Patel v. Texas Dept. of Licensing and Regulation (Tex. 2015) (Willett, J., concurring) txcourts.gov/media/1008502/120657c1.pdf

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Regulating Regulators: Government vs. Markets

Dr. Howard Baetjer

1. There is no such thing as an unregulated market because market forces
regulate the actions of goods and service providers.

2. Why government regulators do not regulate well: they are legal monopo-
lies, effectively unregulated by the political process and unaccountable to
the public they are supposed to serve.

3. Why regulation by forces works well: Quality-assuring enterprises compete
for business, hence they are accountable to the public who use the goods
and services they regulate.

4. How market forces regulate: directly by customer choice; indirectly via
quality-assuring enterprises:
Ÿ Networks: associations, franchises, and brands
Ÿ Third-party certifiers
Ÿ Insurers

5. Why market forces regulate better than government agencies:
Ÿ Systemic learning
Ÿ Incentives to learn
Ÿ Special interest influence
Ÿ Protection of regulatory turf

Suggested Readings
Howard Baetjer Jr. “Regulating Regulators: Government vs. Markets.” Cato Journal, Vol. 35, No. 3 (Fall 2015):

object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/serials/files/cato-journal/2015/9/cj-v35n3-8.pdf.
Daniel B. Klein (2002) “The Demand for and Supply of Assurance.” In T. Cowen and E. Crampton (eds.) Market Failure or Success, the New

Debate. Northampton, Mass.: Edward Elgar for the Independent Institute: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=467802.

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Self-Defense and the Second Amendment

Mr. Clark Neily

1. Is there a natural right to yourself?

2. Against what?

3 . With what?

4. “…the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed”


5. Gun stats (in case you were wondering)

Suggested Readings
Michael Huemer, “Is There a Right to Own a Gun?” Social Theory and Practice, Vol. 29, No. 2 (April 2003), pp. 297-324.
Todd Hughes & Lester Hunt, “The Liberal Basis of the Right to Bear Arms”, Public Affairs Quarterly 14: 1-25 (2000).
Gary Kleck, “Crime Control through Private Use of Armed Force”, Social Problems 35: 1-21(1988).
District of Columbia v. Heller (U.S. 2008): law.cornell.edu/supct/html/07-290.ZS.html
Clark Neily, “The Second Amendment Is Back, Baby!”, Cato Supreme Court Review (2008): cato.org/pubs/scr/2008/Heller_Neily.pdf

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Why We Should Legalize Organ Markets

Dr. James S. Taylor

1. There is currently a huge shortage of human organs available for
transplantation. Markets in human organs will solve this shortage.

2. Markets in human organs will not “coerce” the poor into selling.

3. Selling an organ such as a kidney will be no more dangerous than many
other forms of employment that it is morally permissible for people
to pursue.

4. Markets in human organs will led to better, not worse, quality organs
becoming available.

Suggested Readings
Sigrid Fry-Revere, The Kidney Sellers: A Journey of Discovery in Iran (Carolina Academic Press, 2014).
Stephen Wilkinson, Bodies for Sale (Routledge, 2003).
Mark Cherry, Kidney for Sale by Owner (Georgetown University Press, 2005).
James Stacey Taylor, Stakes and Kidneys (Ashgate Press, 2005).

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Women and the State

Dr. Lauren Hall

1. Problems:
1a. Wage gap
1b. Ambition gap

2. Policy solutions:
2a. Maternity and paternity leave
2b. Daycare subsidies
3c. Quotas for hiring

3. Unintended consequences:

4. What do we mean by freedom? Freedom to do what?

Suggested Readings
Kay Hymowitz, “Why the Gender Gap Won’t Go Away”. City Journal, August 4, 2011.:

wsj.com/articles/SB10001424053111903454504576486690371838036
Kay Hymowitz, “Think Again: Working Women”. Foreign Policy, June 24, 2013. foreignpolicy.com/2013/06/24/think-again-working-women/
Ann-Marie Slaughter, “Why Women Can’t Have it All”. The Atlantic, July/August 2012.

theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/07/why-women-still-cant-have-it-all/309020/

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Over-criminalization

Mr. Clark Neily

1. Purposes of criminal law
2. Too many crimes
3. Not enough protections
4. Zero accountability

Suggested Readings
Hon. Alex Kozinski, “Criminal Law 2.0 (2015)” georgetownlawjournal.org/files/2015/06/Kozinski_Preface.pdf
Glen Reynolds, “Ham Sandwich Nation: Due Process When Everything Is a Crime” (2013) columbialawreview.org
Paul Larkin, “Overcriminalization and Public Choice Theory” (2013) harvard-jlpp.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/36_2_715_Larkin.pdf
Institute for Justice, “Policing for Profit: The Abuse of Civil Asset Forfeiture” (2015) ij.org/report/policing-for-profit/
Radley Balko, Rise of the Warrior Cop (2013).

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Political Frameworks and Freedom

Dr. Lauren Hall

1. Conservatism
1a. Major Principles
1b. Policy Positions

2. Progressivism
2a. Major Principles
2b. Policy Positions

3. Libertarianism
3a. Major Principles
3b. Policy Positions

4. Crossover issues: how to reach across the aisle

5. Some famous figures

Suggested Readings
Russell Kirk, “The Essence of Conservatism”: kirkcenter.org/index.php/detail/essence-1957/
Deneen, Patrick. “What is an American Conservative?”:

theamericanconservative.com/2013/10/09/what-is-an-american-conservative/
Brian Doherty, Radicals for Capitalism.
David Boaz, ed., The Libertarian Reader.

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