David Gordon

David Gordon is Senior Fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute. He was educated at UCLA, where he earned his PhD in history. He is the author of Resurrecting Economics, An Introduction to Economic Reasoning, An Austro-Libertarian View (three volumes), and Resurrecting Marx.  He is also editor of Secession, State, and Liberty and coeditor of H.B. Acton’s Morals of Markets and Other Essays.

Dr. Gordon is the editor of the  Mises Review and the Journal of Libertarian Studies, and a contributor to such journals as Analysis, the International Philosophic Quarterly, the Philosophical Quarterly, the Journal of Libertarian Studies, and the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics.

Articles

The Cartesian Faux Pas
Friday Philosophy David Gordon
[ Philosophical Method: A Very Short Introduction by Timothy Williamson (Oxford University Press, 2020; xvii + 142pp)] Timothy Williamson is one of the foremost contemporary analytic philosophers, and...
To Veatch His Own
Friday Philosophy David Gordon
[ Human Rights: Fact or Fancy? by Henry B. Veatch (LSU Press, 185; xi + 258 pp)] Last week, I criticized the professed Thomistic Aristotelianism of Alasdair MacIntyre, which I argued was a thinly...
Bishop Checkmates Lincoln
The Misesian David Gordon
Defending Dixies’s Land: What Every American Should Know About the South and the Civil War Isaac C. Bishop Published by the author, 2023 Isaac Bishop has in recent years become one of the ablest...
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Publications

Deneen’s Common Good Statism
David Gordon
It’s likely that many readers of The Austrian support the free market and also support “traditional” social values, but in Patrick Deneen’s opinion, this is an unstable amalgam. Deneen, a political theorist who teaches at Notre Dame, thinks that the
Review: Slouching Towards Utopia
David Gordon
[ Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century by J. Bradford DeLong, Basic Books, 2022 viii + 605 pp.] J. Bradford DeLong, who teaches economics at UC Berkeley and was a protégé of Larry Summer’s dislikes Austrian economics
Lost Continetti
David Gordon
The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism By Matthew Continetti Basic Books, 2022 503 pp. Why should readers of The Austrian be interested in this book? At first glance, it appears that we shouldn’t be. Though the history of American
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Media

Truth or Consequences
David Gordon

The transatlantic slave trade from Africa is a well-known chapter in the history of slavery in the Western Hemisphere, but much lesser known is the enslavement of Native Americans. Many of them were shipped to plantations in the Caribbean where they were worked to death.

Lord of the Manor
David Gordon

Dr. David Gordon reviews Mary Grabar‘s Debunking FDR, which examines Roosevelt‘s paternalistic worldview and how it shaped his political life and his presidency. 

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