Tag: capitalism
Download: MOLOCH: Mass-Production Industry as a Statist Construct. I. The Origins of Sloanist Mass Production A Fork in the Road A Wrong Turn The Role of the State in Tipping the Balance II. The Institutional Imperatives of Sloanism Economies of Scale, Economies of Speed, and Push Distribution Microeconomic Institutional Forms for Providing Stability Mass Consumption to Absorb…
Ahmad Barqawi discusses American imperialism. William Sheppard discusses state violence and rape. Sheldon Richman discusses how Obama and Kerry are jeopardizing peace with Iran. Max Border discusses the rise of the new libertarians. Murray Dobbin discusses Stephen Harper’s loyalty to Israel. Michael Munger discusses what positive vision libertarians can offer. Laurence M. Vance discusses hard…
I’m alternately amused and exasperated by the constant refrain of calls to “Vote Harder!” from Progressive Democrats (the kind of people who use the #UniteBlue hashtag on Twitter). During the 2008 campaign Barack Obama made the most left-populist noises of any Democratic candidate in generations, and won by a landslide almost as big as LBJ’s…
Download: MOLOCH: Mass-Production Industry as a Statist Construct. I. The Origins of Sloanist Mass Production A Fork in the Road A Wrong Turn The Role of the State in Tipping the Balance II. The Institutional Imperatives of Sloanism Economies of Scale, Economies of Speed, and Push Distribution Microeconomic Institutional Forms for Providing Stability Mass Consumption to Absorb…
Download: MOLOCH: Mass-Production Industry as a Statist Construct. I. The Origins of Sloanist Mass Production A Fork in the Road A Wrong Turn The Role of the State in Tipping the Balance II. The Institutional Imperatives of Sloanism Economies of Scale, Economies of Speed, and Push Distribution Microeconomic Institutional Forms for Providing Stability Mass Consumption to Absorb…
Download: MOLOCH: Mass-Production Industry as a Statist Construct. I. The Origins of Sloanist Mass Production A Fork in the Road A Wrong Turn The Role of the State in Tipping the Balance II. The Institutional Imperatives of Sloanism Economies of Scale, Economies of Speed, and Push Distribution Microeconomic Institutional Forms for Providing Stability Mass Consumption to Absorb…
Download: MOLOCH: Mass-Production Industry as a Statist Construct. I. The Origins of Sloanist Mass Production A Fork in the Road A Wrong Turn The Role of the State in Tipping the Balance II. The Institutional Imperatives of Sloanism Economies of Scale, Economies of Speed, and Push Distribution Microeconomic Institutional Forms for Providing Stability Mass Consumption to Absorb…
Download: MOLOCH: Mass-Production Industry as a Statist Construct. I. The Origins of Sloanist Mass Production A Fork in the Road A Wrong Turn The Role of the State in Tipping the Balance II. The Institutional Imperatives of Sloanism Economies of Scale, Economies of Speed, and Push Distribution Microeconomic Institutional Forms for Providing Stability Mass Consumption to Absorb…
Download: MOLOCH: Mass-Production Industry as a Statist Construct. I. The Origins of Sloanist Mass Production A Fork in the Road A Wrong Turn The Role of the State in Tipping the Balance II. The Institutional Imperatives of Sloanism Economies of Scale, Economies of Speed, and Push Distribution Microeconomic Institutional Forms for Providing Stability Mass Consumption to Absorb…
Download: MOLOCH: Mass-Production Industry as a Statist Construct. I. The Origins of Sloanist Mass Production A Fork in the Road A Wrong Turn The Role of the State in Tipping the Balance II. The Institutional Imperatives of Sloanism Economies of Scale, Economies of Speed, and Push Distribution Microeconomic Institutional Forms for Providing Stability Mass Consumption to Absorb…
Recently, a rebuttal of my previous article “Anarcho-Capitalism is Impossible” was brought to my attention. The author, Christopher Cantwell, made some points that are worth addressing and my own thoughts on the matter have shifted somewhat over time. Therefore, I think it would be worth revisiting the topic with fresh eyes. In his introductory paragraphs,…
Amanda Marcotte discusses the tribalism of the religious right. William Norman Grigg discusses police brutality. David R. Hoffman discusses the NSA and CIA as criminal enterprises. Arthur Silber discusses psychological manipulation and lying. Arthur Silber discusses atrocity in the context of war. Arthur Silber discusses neurosis and terror as national policy. Arthur Silber discusses a…
Download: MOLOCH: Mass-Production Industry as a Statist Construct. I. The Origins of Sloanist Mass Production A Fork in the Road A Wrong Turn The Role of the State in Tipping the Balance II. The Institutional Imperatives of Sloanism Economies of Scale, Economies of Speed, and Push Distribution Microeconomic Institutional Forms for Providing Stability Mass Consumption to Absorb…
Remember when “Honest Bob” Murray of Murray Industries whined about a “War on Coal”? Most people in “Honest Bob’s” situation would’ve had the sense to keep their pie holes shut, considering he was responsible for the negligent homicide of the coal miners who died in one of his death traps just a few years earlier…
If I understand Princeton historian Sean Wilentz correctly, progressives ought not to be grateful to Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, and Glenn Greenwald for exposing government spying because they are not card-carrying progressives. (“Would You Feel Differently About Snowden, Greenwald, and Assange If You Knew What They Really Thought?”) Apparently they have either hung out with…
In his 1815 Principles of Politics, French liberal author Benjamin Constant defended the monarch’s “right to dissolve representative assemblies.” Constant’s position might seem surprising. Wasn’t securing the independence of parliaments from the royal will one of liberalism’s hard-won victories? His reasoning ran as follows. The “tendency of assemblies to multiply indefinitely the number of laws” is the inevitable…
Say the words “class analysis” or “class conflict” and most people will think of Karl Marx. The idea that there are irreconcilable classes, their conflict inherent in the nature of things, is one of the signatures of Marxism. That being the case, people who want nothing to do with Marxism quite naturally want nothing to…
I – What Is Anarchy. The statesman, intent on schemes to compromise principles and tide over clamorous demands for justice, says it is disorder and spoliation. New taxes are then levied to defend the state, to repress incendiary talk, and protect privileged prerogatives. Or false and surface issues are prepared to distract attention, to embroil citizens in partisan quarrels,…
O editor do The Freeman, Sheldon Richman, discursando na George Mason University, levantou a questão sobre o que os libertários convencionais querem dizer quando chamam um país de “capitalista”. O que qualifica um país como “capitalista”? Muitos países com índices relativamente baixos de liberdade econômica (incluindo aqueles classificados como “majoritariamente não-livre”) são normalmente considerados “capitalistas”, e referenciados…
Download [PDF]: Industrial Policy: New Wine in Old Bottles I. The Unsustainability of the Existing System II. The Seeds of the New System III. What Stands in the Way The problem is, the low-overhead business model I described above for the informal economy is, in almost countless ways, illegal. Take the restaurant/brew pub example. You have to buy an extremely expensive…
