Studies

Dec 8, 2009

The Alternative Economy As A Singularity

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C4SS Research Associate Kevin Carson’s seventh paper — The Alternative Economy as a Singularity. [PDF]


Nov 12, 2009

Resilient Communities and Local Economies

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C4SS Research Associate Kevin Carson’s sixth study — SOCIETY AFTER STATE CAPITALISM: Resilient Communities and Local Economies [PDF].


Sep 30, 2009

The Homebrew Industrial Revolution

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The latest study from C4SS Research Associate Kevin Carson: The Homebrew Industrial Revolution [PDF].

Summary:
Neighborhood workshops, desktop manufacturing, household micro-enterprises and online horizontal networks of peer producers will come to dominate the informal economy that must arise as the state-allied formal economy stagnates and decays.


Sep 4, 2009

The Decline and Fall of Sloanism

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In his latest study, C4SS Reseach Associate Kevin Carson shows that the current economic crisis is not a cyclical downturn but a permanent structural shift…


Aug 6, 2009

MOLOCH: Mass-Production Industry as a Statist Construct

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C4SS Research Associate Kevin Carson has released his third research study — MOLOCH: Mass-Production Industry as a Statist Construct.


May 14, 2009

Intellectual Property — A Libertarian Critique

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In this study, Kevin Carson reviews libertarian perspectives on “intellectual property”; the ethics of the practice itself and the harms resulting from it.


Jan 1, 2009

Industrial Policy: New Wine in Old Bottles

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In this study, Kevin Carson asserts that the existing capitalist economic system is a result of State industrial policy suppressing libertarian alternatives.