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…Disaster “Anarcho”-Capitalism Comes to Argentina Argentina’s self-described “anarcho-capitalist” President, Javier Milei, has — to put it mildly — generated considerable enthusiasm on the libertarian right in the United States. Shortly after Milei’s election in December 2023, Reason’s Katarina Hall praised an omnibus bill successfully pushed through by “the libertarian president” for policies that would transition…
Myanmar: The Accidental Agora
For decades, Myanmar’s economy and political system have been heavily shaped by totalitarian regimes and a powerful military. The state-controlled cooperative system initiated under the “Burmese Way to Socialism” in 1962 eventually transitioned to the non-ideological military dictatorship in the 1990s. A short-lived period of market-oriented development occurred under the NLD government (2015-2020). However, the…
Book Review: Filthy Lucre
Joseph Heath. Filthy Lucre: Economics For People Who Hate Capitalism (Toronto: HarperCollins, 2009). Heath states his goal at the outset: I’m not interested in selling anyone on the virtues of private enterprise. This is primarily because I share the unease that most people feel with the capitalist system. And I would like to see us…
Landback: Abolishing Ethnonationalism and the Ethnostate
…With Particular Regard to the Israel-Palestine Conflict Click here to view or download the .pdf version. Introduction The central thesis of this paper – one which will be restated throughout – is the problematic nature of the nation-state, in the sense of a state or polity built around an official ethnicity. The ideology of ethnonationalism,…
