Friday Philosophy

Look closely and you'll notice that elite professors, doctors, economists, and other intellectuals use their social standing to justify the state's policies and maintain its image.

Perry Anderson twisted Mises's words into a defense of fascism. Here's what Mises really thought.

Marx and Engels don't simply condemn capitalism. They note that by reducing everything to trade in money, it has made the reality of exploitation easier to see.

Current irrationalist modes of thought all contend that because our thinking about the world is conditioned in a certain way, it does not grasp the world as it really exists.

Schutz agrees with Mises that all human action is rational, in the sense that the actor has a goal or end and adopts means that he thinks are suitable to attain that end.

Do individual rights cease to exist in emergencies or are they only temporarily frozen? Does anyone have the right to decide when there's an emergency—and when these rights disappear?

Murray Rothbard’s criticism of Marxism is often misunderstood. 

Capitalism is often blamed for the effects of policies that aren't capitalism. This is why we need a better definition of capitalism.

Mises shows that even if you accept Kant, you should reject socialism.

An obvious criticism of stakeholder theory is that the key notion of the theory is undefined. Who counts as a “stakeholder”?