Tag: economic development
Energy and Transportation Issues: A Libertarian Analysis
Kevin Carson’s fourteenth research paper argues that “it is the state’s constraints on market freedom that have created an economy centered on long-distance shipping and the automobile-highway complex.
Crecimiento benigno, crecimiento canceroso
Thomas L. Knapp contrasta con las burbujas de un crecimiento sostenible.
How About Some Real “Austerity?”
D’Amato: Not surprisingly, it’s always the salaries and pensions of working people that are subject to the various diminutions attending so-called “austerity.”
Technological Progress: Cui Bono?
It depends, writes Kevin Carson.
Free the Market, Abolish the Wage System
Carson: Wage labor is largely a phenomenon of unfree markets.
History of an Idea
Or, How An Argument Against the Workability of Authoritarian Socialism Became An Argument Against the Workability of Authoritarian Capitalism
Two Cheers for The Story of Stuff
Kevin Carson celebrates the half of the story Annie Leonard gets right.
Jesus Christ, Pirate
After feeding a crowd of five thousand with five loaves and two fishes, Jesus Christ of Nazareth was recently served with formal legal notice…
High-Tech Swadeshi
Kevin Carson on the futility of political action in comparison to productive direct action.
The Politics of Hunger
David D’Amato on rising food prices.
Intellectual Property is Murder
Kevin Carson on the human cost of “intellectual property”.
Childhood’s End for Humanity?
Kevin Carson: We’re approaching the second threshold, when the technologies of abundance reach a takeoff point beyond which the social structures of expropriation can no longer keep up with the rising production curve.
Is Money Too Cheap, or Too Dear? Both
Kevin Carson outlines a basis for left-right money crank fusion.
The Drums of Wars
David D’Amato on US military intervention in Libya.
Government Shutdown Theater
Thomas L. Knapp on the “essential” versus the “non-essential”.
Monopoly: A Nice Trick If You Can Do It
Kevin Carson explains why the “progressive” regulatory state is not an obstacle to monopoly, but its greatest enabler.
Managing the Unmanageable
David D’Amato on Federal Reserve financial hegemony.
Neoliberalism: All the Taxes of Social Democracy, None of the Fun
Kevin Carson: “…if you call yourself a libertarian, don’t try to kid anybody that the American system is less statist than the German one just because more of the welfare queens wear three-piece suits.”
Stop Governing, Not Providing Services
Darian Worden: What is an essential government service anyway?
Capitalism: A Good Word For A Bad Thing
Kevin Carson examines the matter of whether or not the word “capitalism” is useful to describe a true free market economy.
Anarchy and Democracy
Fighting Fascism
Markets Not Capitalism
The Anatomy of Escape
Organization Theory