David Henderson Outs Tyler Cowen

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Hey I didn't do it: David Henderson calls Tyler Cowen a big sellout wuss (or something like that). I add my two cents at the end, but I think most of the MR crowd has moved on at this point. Heh heh this way I get the last word, albeit spoken to myself.

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  1. Silas Barta10:57 AM

    To anyone still reading this: would someone count as a libertarian sellout if he were clearly more interested in shoving the costs of his lifestyle onto innocent, unwilling third parties, than in establishing and defining clear property rights in all exhaustible resources?

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  2. Micha Ghertner4:24 PM

    No, Silas, I would still consider such a person a libertarian. Libertarianism seems to be best defined by the policy conclusions one reaches, and not by the means with which one arrives at those conclusions.

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