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Blog03/20/2007Angelo Mike

I had a enlightening exchange with an international economics professor recently about Marxist dogmas inserted into neoclassical economics. At least, her brand of them.

We had debated several times before in class to no effect. This professor has apparently never familiarized herself with...

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Oh, Communists, how we love you!

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Blog03/20/2007Jeffrey A. Tucker

The New York Times reports on the thrilling, spectacular, amazing, happy happy news that the Communist Party USA has donated its complete archives to New York University. What a treasure trove...

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Tyler's Paradox

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Blog03/19/2007D.W. MacKenzie

Tyler Cowen has written a provocative essay: The Paradox of Libertarianism. According to Tyler, the pursuit of libertarian ideals has led to the unintended consequence of expanding government. The...

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Hoppean Anarcho-Capitalism in Slate

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Blog03/08/2007Stephan Kinsella

Timothy Noah's Would You Privatize Defense?The case for socialized medicine, Part 1, in the March 6, 2007 Slate unwittingly shows the danger of minarchism and the idea of public goods. Once you accept the notion that the...

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Is Economics an Apologia for Capitalism?

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Blog01/25/2007Peter G. Klein

Michael Perelman argues that economics is not an objective science, but an ideology, an apologia for capitalism promoted by the mercantile classes and...

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More on Pinochet and Marxism: The Necessity of Evil Means to Achieve Socialism

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Blog12/21/2006George Reisman

Some of the responses to my post on General Pinochet have reminded me that along with the fable of Santa Claus and his reindeer, which is so prominent right now because it is the Christmas Season, there is another fable that is still going...

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General Augusto Pinochet Is Dead

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Blog12/16/2006George Reisman

On Sunday, December 10, General Augusto Pinochet of Chile died, at the age of 91. General Pinochet deserves to be remembered for having rescued his country from becoming the second Soviet satellite in the Western hemisphere, after Castro's Cuba, and, like the Soviet Union, and Cuba under Castro...

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An Ideology of Brute Force

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Blog07/18/2006Ralph Reiland

In 1959, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and Vice President Richard Nixon walked through a replica of a six-room American ranch house that was on display at the American National Exhibition in Moscow.

As the two superpower leaders entered the kitchen area, Nixon pointed to the dishwasher...

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McCully Praises, But Misunderstands, Austrians

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Blog07/15/2006Robert Blumen

PIMCO bond manager Paul McCulley's recent commentary, A Kind Word for the Austrian School, contrasts the Austrian and Keynesian views on macro-economics. After reading...

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Mutualism's Support for the Exploitation of Labor and State Coercion

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Blog06/23/2006George Reisman

Mutualism claims to oppose the exploitation of labor, i.e., the theft of any part of its product. But when it comes to labor that has been mixed with land, it turns a blind eye and comes out foursquare on the side of the exploiter.

Thus, to elaborate on the case I presented in my last post...