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...According to Senior Lecturer on Economics Jeffrey A. Miron, while most people might come out of Justice with a Deontological idea of libertarianism, the majority of the fiscally conservative but socially liberal demographic fits more neatly into the Consequentialist camp...
...version of libertarian principles which says that we have rules and rights and we do everything by these rules and rights,” says Miron. “And when you ask them why, they say, well people are happier with these rights. That’s a consequentialist view. What we’re doing is talking about the consequentialist’s arguments...
...that tries to ask if the government is doing more harm in intervening,” Miron says. This view, based on consequences of government action is, in the opinion of Miron, not so uncommon: “I think that all economists are in a very small way consequentialist...
...economically conservative” Democrats who want deregulation, free trade, and reduced government spending, Republicans who oppose restrictions on civil liberties, free speech, and gay marriage, and all those who want less government intrusion across the board have a name: libertarian.Libertarians more or less fall into two camps: consequentialists and deontologists. Consequentialist libertarians want a more limited government because they believe it will lead to better social conditions, such as a higher gross domestic product, more personal choice, and increased self-reliance. Many economists, like Milton Friedman and visiting professor of economics Jeffrey A. Miron—who teaches...
What we're left with, then, is a purely consequentialist ethics: What are the effects of punishing Clinton? Now that we're in the middle of this awful morality play, what is the most productive way for it to end? What lessons do we want to teach--about Presidents, about prosecutors, about what's right and wrong, what's public and private...