Author Archive

Mar 13, 2012

Mark Pennington. Robust Political Economy

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Mark Pennington. Robust Political Economy: Classical Liberalism and the Future of Public Policy (Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, Mass: Edward Elgar, 2011). Where Pennington is at his best is in making the proper comparison between the market and the actual state, rather than the market and an ideal state. He does an outstanding job in articulating [...]


Mar 5, 2012

To Vote, or Not to Vote?

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Carson: Vote if you must, but keep your eyes on the prize.


Feb 28, 2012

Communal Property: A Libertarian Analysis

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Kevin Carson’s thirteenth research paper, “Communal Property:  A Libertarian Analysis,” argues that the libertarian defense of property doesn’t apply only to fee simple individual property.  Communal Property: A Libertarian Analysis   Communal Property: A Libertarian Analysis By Kevin Carson “The Dominant market anarchist view of property takes for granted individual, fee-simple ownership through individual appropriation [...]


Feb 28, 2012

On Brandon Darby and “Sanctioned Use of Force”

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Carson on double agents’ double standards.


Feb 25, 2012

Do-It-Yourself Regulation

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Kevin Carson loves the smell of corporations burning in the morning.


Feb 23, 2012

Nazi Exceptionalism; or, How Godwin’s Law Gets It Backward

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Carson: “Hitler!”


Feb 22, 2012

Romney’s “Free Enterprise System”: As Statist as Stalin’s Five-Year Plan

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Carson: The corporate-state monopoly is on the defensive.


Feb 13, 2012

David Goodway. Anarchist Seeds Beneath the Snow

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David Goodway.  Anarchist Seeds Beneath the Snow:  Left-Libertarian Thought and British Writers from William Morris to Colin Ward (PM Press edition, 2012). I’ll start by saying I found this a very engaging read.  I learned a lot of interesting new things about people whose thought I had already encountered, like Morris, Huxley and Orwell, and [...]


Feb 10, 2012

Should Occupy Use Violence? I Dunno — Should the Cops?

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Carson on double standards.


Feb 9, 2012

More Conflationism in the News

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Carson v. de Rugy.