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David Gordon

Senior Fellow

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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 JusticeThe Philosophical Origins of Austrian EconomicsAn Introduction to Economic Reasoning, and Critics of Marx. He is also editor of Secession, State, and Liberty and coeditor of H.B. Acton's Morals 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 Problem with Belloc's Distributist Economy

Economic PolicyFree MarketsOther Schools of ThoughtPhilosophy and Methodology

Blog06/30/2023

The "distributist" theorists Chesterton and Belloc imagined that economic interventionism could make life easier and more free. Yet their proposed system is neither moral nor practical. 

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Deneen on Elitism

LibertarianismLiberalismProgressivismPhilosophy and Methodology

Blog06/23/2023

Patrick Deneen not only misunderstands John Stuart Mill, but he also misunderstands libertarians, claiming they are elitists who believe the world should be ruled by experts.

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Misreading Mill

LibertarianismLiberalismPhilosophyPhilosophy and Methodology

Blog06/16/2023

Patrick Deneen writes that the nonaggression principle promotes a liberalism that is harmful to society, as evidenced by John Stuart Mill's idea of the tyranny of public opinion.

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Edmund Phelps on Egalitarianism

LawLibertarianismLiberalismPovertyProgressivism

06/14/2023Mises Media
The classical liberal economist Edmund Phelps wants government to aid poor people, but he clearly is not an egalitarian. His philosophy would be unacceptable to today's "woke" egalitarians.
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Don’t Get on the Nationalist Bus

DemocracyEconomic PolicyPoliticsPhilosophy and Methodology

06/13/2023Mises Media
Like so many others in the "national greatness" movement, Christopher Buskirk understands some of the problems the country faces but fails to grasp the solutions.
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