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Simon Wilson

While the prospect of Javier Milei being elected president of Argentina is attractive, his plan to "dollarize" the Argentine economy will fall well short of hopes and expectations.

David Gordon

Crack-Up Capitalism will be of interest to many readers of The Austrian because of what it says about Murray Rothbard; and for th

David Gordon

In his new book, 'Crack-up Capitalism,' Quinn Slobodian sloppily attacks Rothbard's views on market freedom. But in his efforts to attack Rothbard generally, Slobodian also gets Rothbard wrong on slavery, on Indians, on war crimes, and more. 

David Gordon

Culture warrior Patrick Deneen takes on the free market and its traditions. Neither of which he understands well.

David Gordon
It’s likely that many readers of The Austrian support the free market and also support “traditional” social values, but in Patrick Deneen’s opinion, this is an unstable amalgam. Deneen, a political theorist who teaches at Notre Dame, thinks that...
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David Gordon

David Gordon continues his analysis of Graham Priest’s book, Capitalism: Its Nature and Its Replacement. While Priest might not understand either Marxism or capitalism, his book has useful insights.