Classical liberals have made valid criticisms of the term social justice, but they should be more sympathetic to the quest to reduce certain kinds of group disparities, especially ones that stem from rent-preserving barriers to entry. Those barriers include narratives that raise the cost of replacing general societal rules that favor a given coalition of interests.
Vincent J. Geloso is an assistant professor of economics at George Mason University who obtained his Ph.D. in economic history from the London School of Economics.
Twitter      Email
Phillip W. Magness is a Research Fellow at the Independent Institute and Senior Research Fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research.
Twitter      Email
Economic InequalityEconomic PolicyEconomy
Other Independent Review articles by Vincent J. Geloso
Summer 2017 Inequality: First, Do No Harm
Other Independent Review articles by Phillip W. Magness
Winter 2022/23 The Hyperpoliticization of Higher Ed: Trends in Faculty Political Ideology, 1969–Present
Spring 2022 “The Danger of Deplorable Reactions”: W. H. Hutt on Liberalism, Populism, and the Constitutional Political Economy of Racism
Spring 2021 The Origins and Political Persistence of COVID-19 Lockdowns
[View All (7)]