David Gordon

Works Published inQuarterly Journal of Austrian EconomicsMises Review

AwardsMurray N. Rothbard Medal of Freedom

David Gordon is a Senior Fellow at the Mises Institute. He is author of Resurrecting Marx and An Introduction to Economic Reasoning and editor of numerous books including The Essential Rothbard, available in the Mises Store.

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David Gordon is a senior fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute. He was educated at UCLA, where he earned his PhD in intellectual history. He is the author of Resurrecting Marx: The Analytical Marxists on Exploitation, Freedom, and Justice, The Philosophical Origins of Austrian Economics,An Introduction to Economic Reasoning, and Critics of Marx. He is also editor of Secession, State, and Liberty and co-editor of H.B. Acton'sMorals of Markets and Other Essays.

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

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The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics

Global EconomyMoney and BanksMonetary Theory

Money: How the Destruction of the Dollar Threatens the Global Economy—and What We Can Do About It by Steve Forbes and Elizabeth Ames

JournalsJanuary 30, 2015David Gordon

Money is an odd book. “Moderation” in the use of a bad measure is no virtue. If cyanide is poison, “drink in small doses” is not the appropriate response. Money falls exactly into this bad pattern...

Media and CulturePhilosophy and MethodologyPolitical Theory

David Gordon: Thinkers Who Challenged the State

Audio/VideoDecember 24, 2014David Gordon

In less than 20 minutes David Gordon surveys Plato, Aristotle, Stoic philosopher Zeno of Citium, Frenchman Frederic Bastiat, Franz Oppenheimer, and Albert Jay Nock.

World HistoryPolitical Theory

Hoppe on Democracy, Progress, and the State

Mises DailyDecember 27, 2014David Gordon

David Gordon explains how Hans-Hermann Hoppe, while avoiding undue pessimism, takes the conventional view of "progress" in Western society and turns the narrative on its head...

World HistoryPhilosophy and MethodologyPolitical Theory

Thinkers Who Challenged the State

Mises DailyDecember 13, 2014David Gordon

While we are told today that an anarchist society is unachievable, the ancients believed such a society to be achievable but undesirable. The world would have to wait for later theorists like Bastiat and Oppenheimer, who explained the true costs of the state.