Scott R. Sehon tries to be intellectually honest in his critique of capitalism and his endorsement of socialism, but David Gordon writes that Sehon needs to better know the arguments favoring capitalism. Original Article: If One Wishes to Discredit Capitalism, One Should at Least Understand How It
In last week’s column, I discussed Scott Sehon’s new book, Socialism: A Logical Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2024), and this week, I’d like to continue the analysis of the book, focusing on Sehon’s discussion of rights under socialism. The main topic we need to look at is whether socialism violates important rights that people ought to
In his important book The Failure of American Conservatism (2023), the political theorist and philosopher Claes G. Ryn offers some criticisms of libertarianism and free-market capitalism, and in this week’s column, I’d like to examine these. Ryn is not an opponent of all forms of the free market, but he fears an extreme version of it can be
While Graham Priest seems to have “rescued” Marxism from the labor theory of value, he cannot rescue Marxism itself. Original Article: “ Saving Marxism from the Labor Theory of Value: It Is Still Bad
Mises in 1944: “The German and the Russian systems of socialism have in common the fact that the government has full control of the means of production.” This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon. Narrated by Millian Quinteros. Original Article: “ Rand Paul Is Right about the Nazis and Socialism
The Virtue of Nationalism Yoram Hazony Basic Books, 2018 285 + vii pages Yoram Hazony is a thinker of great originality, and in The Virtue of Nationalism , he enables us to see nationalism in a new way. He is not a libertarian, but his way of looking at nationalism can be of great value to libertarians in understanding how our views should be
Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism by Quinn Slobodian Harvard University Press, 2018 x+381 pages Quinn Slobodian, a historian at Wellesley College, tells us that Globalists “is a long-simmering product of the Seattle protests against the World Trade organization in 1999. I was part of a generation that ... became
[ Full issue of the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 20, no. 4 (2017)] The Captured Economy: How the Powerful Enrich Themselves, Slow Economic Growth, and Increase Inequality by Brink Lindsey and Steven M. Teles Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017, viii+ 221 pp. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Progressives
[ Full issue of the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 20, no. 4 (2017)] Anti-Piketty: Capital for the 21st Century Edited by Jean-Philippe Delsol, Nicholas Lecaussin, and Emmanuel Martin Washington, D.C.: Cato Institute, 2017, xxvii + 272 pp. When Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century was published in 2014 (the French edition had
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