Niskanen forum on Milton Friedman, the negative income tax, and basic income. With Jennifer Burns, @mattzwolinski.bsky.socialhypertextjournal.substack.com/p/summary-po...

Unconditional income: Milton Friedman, neoliberal ideas, and political realities

Free-market champion Milton Friedman also advocated a "negative income tax." We examine how that project failed, how it succeeded, and whether it can triumph in the post-neoliberal era.

On the dangers of Javier Milei’s libertarian populism.

Javier Milei’s Libertarian Populism | by Matt Zwolinski - Project Syndicate

Matt Zwolinski considers how Argentina's self-described “anarcho-capitalist” presidential front-runner would govern.

"The Individualists is a clarifying work ... Its authors write with a palpable love of ideas and even of the sometimes-goofy, often-curmudgeonly characters who propagated them—and who find the idea of a driver’s license a license to totalitarianism."

Too Much Freedom

Every social movement, no matter how iconoclastic, has its traditions. The live-free-or-die hard-liners who gathered at the 2016 Libertarian Party presidential-candidate debate honored one of the...

My new book with Miranda Perry Fleischer releases today with Oxford University Press. I hope you’ll take a look. "A complete, thorough, and practical breakdown of UBI. Whether you're a supporter or a skeptic, Zwolinski and Fleischer's work is a must-read." - Andrew Yang

Coming soon from OUP: Exploitation: Perspectives from Philosophy, Politics, and Economics

This Friday, I’ll be in conversation with Readon Magazine’s Stephanie Slade about libertarian/conservstive “fusionism.” I’m really looking forward to it, and hope to see some of you there!

What difference is there - if any - between a #BasicIncome and a Negative Income Tax? An excerpt from my new book, Universal Basic Income: What Everyone Needs to Know. The book launches next week - pre-order your copy today!

UBI vs. Negative Income Tax

From Universal Basic Income: What Everyone Needs to Know

Last week, I posted an excerpt from my new book with the six main arguments in support of a #BasicIncome. Today, for the sake of fairness!, I present the four main arguments *against* the policy.

Four Arguments Against a UBI

From Universal Basic Income: What Everyone Needs to Know

My review of Jacob Soll’s _Free Market_ is now online at Reason.

'Free Market' book misstates the history of free market thought

Author Jacob Soll's commitment to an untenable historical thesis distorts the facts.

@mattzwolinski.bsky.social and John Tomasi's The Individualists: Come for the explanation of why a Cold War political lens is inappropriate for understanding libertarianism today, stay for another way of thinking about our political world.  My review at The Hub.

The fight over liberty is far from over - The Hub

In exploring the history of libertarian thought, The Individualists provides a model for understanding how political movements can shift with the contexts they’re in and the personalities that drive...