Tag: economic development
Sheldon Richman: An illuminating interview on what to expect regarding the federal government’s fiscal bog.
Kevin Carson: If you can get past the flaws in Shermer’s book (things others might prefer to think of as my fixations, hangups, and dead horses), it’s quite an enjoyable read.
For every copy of Kevin Carson’s “The Free Market as Full Communism: Two Essays on Mutual Ownership & Post-Scarcity Market Anarchism” that you purchase through the Distro, C4SS will receive a percentage.
Mike Reid: They are seeking a path back to autonomy and self-determination.
For every copy of “Distributed Technology & Worker Ownership: Five Conversations on the Economics of Anarchy” that you purchase through the Distro, C4SS will receive a percentage.
For every copy of Charles Johnson’s “State Capitalism and the Many Monopolies” that you purchase through the Distro, C4SS will receive a percentage.
Knapp: La única esperanza de las viejas compañías de medios es renunciar a sus fallidos monopolios y redes de extorsión creados por el estado, y aprender de una vez por todas como generar beneficios a través del intercambio voluntario.
Knapp: The old media companies’ only chance of survival is to give up their failed state-created monopolies and protection rackets, and figure out how to generate profits through voluntary trade instead.
From the Markets Not Capitalism audiobook read by C4SS fellow Stephanie Murphy.
“los ricos ya han sido los sujetos de la caridad el tiempo suficiente”
From the Markets Not Capitalism audiobook read by C4SS fellow Stephanie Murphy.
For every copy of Charles Johnson’s “Socialize, Don’t Privatize” that you purchase through the Distro, C4SS will receive a percentage.
Gary Chartier: Buchanan thought of himself as a classical liberal and an Austrian economist — but neither a leftist nor an anarchist. But that doesn’t mean left-wing market anarchists don’t have important lessons to learn from him …
Existen dos maneras de considerar la sociedad.
The measure of statism inheres in the functioning of the overall system, not in the formal statism of its separate parts.
It requires that we question the fundamental basis of the current statist system.
If libertarians continue to use the word “capitalism” as some kind of ahistorical ideal, they will forever be dismissed by the Left as rationalist apologists for a state-capitalist reality.
“I think a description of the functioning of a free market calls for the subjunctive case, not the indicative.”
If the cottagers had to leave the land because of acts of Parliament, how can we say simply that they chose “oppressive” factory work because it was the superior alternative?
But it’s a messed-up libertarianism that looks at that situation and says, “Man, first thing we gotta do is get rid of that welfare!”
