Studies

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 [...]


May 26, 2011

Legibility & Control: Themes in the Work of James C. Scott

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Kevin Carson’s twelfth research study for C4SS has been released… Legibility & Control: Themes in the Work of James C. Scott (Winter and Spring 2011, PDF).


Dec 29, 2010

The Great Domain of Cost-Plus: The Waste Production Economy

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Kevin Carson’s eleventh research study for the Center [fourth quarter 2010].


Sep 29, 2010

Labor Struggle: A Free Market Model

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In his tenth research study for C4SS, Kevin Carson explains that the state’s labor regulations, far from promoting workers’ bargaining rights, have hindered them. Carson then points the way toward a future of labor radicalism aligned with free market anarchism.


Jun 30, 2010

Thermidor of the Progressives

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C4SS Research Associate Kevin Carson’s latest research study is now available. Download Thermidor of the Progressives: Managerialist Liberalism’s Hostility to Decentralized Organization[PDF].


Mar 24, 2010

The Healthcare Crisis: A Crisis of Artificial Scarcity

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C4SS Research Associate Kevin Carson’s eighth paper — The Healthcare Crisis: A Crisis of Artificial Scarcity. [PDF] Healthcare: A Crisis of Artificial Scarcity By Kevin Carson “In healthcare, subsidies to the most costly and high-tech forms of medicine crowd out cheaper and decentralized alternatives, so that cheaper forms of treatment – even when perfectly adequate [...]


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…


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