Tag: economic development
Or, How An Argument Against the Workability of Authoritarian Socialism Became An Argument Against the Workability of Authoritarian Capitalism
Kevin Carson celebrates the half of the story Annie Leonard gets right.
After feeding a crowd of five thousand with five loaves and two fishes, Jesus Christ of Nazareth was recently served with formal legal notice…
Kevin Carson on the futility of political action in comparison to productive direct action.
David D’Amato on rising food prices.
Kevin Carson on the human cost of “intellectual property”.
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.
Kevin Carson outlines a basis for left-right money crank fusion.
David D’Amato on US military intervention in Libya.
Thomas L. Knapp on the “essential” versus the “non-essential”.
Kevin Carson explains why the “progressive” regulatory state is not an obstacle to monopoly, but its greatest enabler.
David D’Amato on Federal Reserve financial hegemony.
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.”
Darian Worden: What is an essential government service anyway?
Kevin Carson examines the matter of whether or not the word “capitalism” is useful to describe a true free market economy.
Kevin Carson points out that we’re already in Wilson’s dystopia.
I. Introduction Defenders of freed markets have good reason to identify their position as a species of “anti-capitalism.”[1] To explain why, I distinguish three potential meanings of “capitalism” before suggesting that people committed to freed markets should oppose capitalism in my second and third senses. Then, I offer some reasons for using “capitalism” as a…
Dr. Roderick Long: …just as St. Augustine once prayed, ‘Grant me chastity and continence, but not yet,’ Chomsky’s aim is in effect anarchy, but not yet.”
Kevin Carson on politically selective criticism of junk science.
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…
