Keith Knight’s Top Ten Problems with Democratic Socialism
The Most Overvalued Stock Market Since 1927?
Small America First
[Rethinking the American Union for the Twenty-First Century edited by Donald Livingston.
(Pelican Publishing Company, 2012; 272 pp.)]
The contributors to Donald Livingston’s valuable collection of essays defend two main contentions. Each of these contentions may be held independently of the other, but the first one provides a reason to welcome the truth of the second.
Economic Foundations and Christianity Are Compatible
[Ritenour, Shawn, Foundations of Economics: A Christian View, Wipf & Stock, an Imprint of Wipf and Stock Publishers. Kindle Edition. pp. 545]
Graham, McConnell, and America’s Late-Soviet Politics
The Predatory Logic of the State
Brokenomics: Austrian Economics with Jonathan Newman
The Predatory Logic of the State
Governance—understood as the set of mechanisms aimed at coordinating social life and regulating conflict—has been a constant feature of human existence from the moment people find themselves living in proximity to one another. Far from being an abstract category, it is a tool for peace and prosperity.
It does not follow, however, that political centralization—so prevalent today—is inherent to every form of governance. Political centralization is not new; the state, however, is.
