Join SFL and students from all over the world TONIGHT, May 2 at 8PM EST for a webinar with Professor Dan Klein. We’ll be discussing the tension between direct and overall liberty, and the validity (or invalidity) of violating liberty in the short term to preserve it in the long term.

Prof. Klein’s talk will explore possible disagreements between direct and overall liberty. Direct liberty corresponds to the inherent aspects of a policy reform (and its concomitant enforcement), while overall liberty subsumes also its wider and long-run aspects. If direct and overall liberty often disagree, then there is ambiguity in saying whether a policy or action augments “liberty”—a term that is almost never clarified by the distinction between direct and overall—and critics will contend that “liberty” is meaningless or illusory. Some areas of possible disagreement are genuine and perhaps significant—the three most notable being military actions, controlling pollution, and what we call “coercive hazard.”

Where? On your computer at 8pm EST!

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Daniel Klein is a Professor of Economics at George Mason University. He holds degrees from George Mason University and New York University, where in both cases he studied the classical liberal traditions of economics. His teaching focuses on economic principles and public policy issues.

Professor Klein has published research on policy issues including toll roads, urban transit, auto emission, credit reporting, and the Food and Drug Administration. He has also written on spontaneous order, the discovery of opportunity, the demand and supply of assurance, why government officials believe in the goodness of bad policy, and the relationship between liberty, dignity, and responsibility.

Klein is the coauthor of Curb Rights: A Foundation for Free Enterprise in Urban Transit, editor of Reputation: Studies in the Voluntary Elicitation of Good Conduct, and editor ofWhat Do Economists Contribute?