Other Schools of Thought

All conservative socialist systems — such as feudalism, monarchies, Nazism, and the Republican Party — lead to impoverishment just like social-democratic socialism.

Ultimately, a living wage in Athens (or anywhere) will actually hurt the poor rather than helping them.

"Since the functional unit of all life and all action is the individual person, it is here that any sound concept of human rights must be anchored."

So Keynes enables Posner to throw off the shackles of rational choice almost completely.

Why is it taken for granted that we need a state at all?

"No one was allowed to leave town, and anyone caught attempting or plotting to leave, helping anyone else to leave, or criticizing the king, was instantly beheaded."

Buying gold and silver coins and holding them is not only a way of protecting oneself against inflation, but it is also, in a sense, a way of boycotting the federal reserve. That in itself would be reason enough to own them.

Pages 685-693. Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.

Pages 694-711. Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.

Mr. Chodorov sees history as an eternal struggle between social-power and political-power philosophies.