The monthly Liberty Review, a project of Liberty Fund just arrived, and it presents a great opportunity to delve into some mind expanding reading material instead of reading hate speech by people about the proposed Constitution Amendments for equal rights.

Two of the essays piqued my interest immediately and I hope you will click on the links and read them for yourself.

The Libertarian Nonaggression Principle by Matt Zwolinski

"This essay critically examines the Nonaggression Principle and the extent to which it can provide support for libertarian political theory. It identifies two problems with existing libertarian appeals to the principle, and provides a more moderate and defensible version. It also concludes that a full defense of libertarianism cannot rely upon appeals to nonaggression alone." Read the abstract (pay wall)»

Social Mobility and Stability of Democracy: Re-evaluating De Tocqueville by Daron Acemoglu, Georgy Egorov, Konstantin Sonin

"An influential thesis often associated with De Tocqueville views social mobility as a bulwark of democracy: when members of a social group expect to join the ranks of other social groups in the near future, they should have less reason to exclude these other groups from the political process. In this paper, the authors investigate this hypothesis using a dynamic model of political economy." Read the rest of this entry (Working Paper pdf) »

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