Tag: economic development
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.
R.A. Wilson: Optimist?
Kevin Carson points out that we’re already in Wilson’s dystopia.
Advocates of Freed Markets Should Embrace “Anti-Capitalism”
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…
Chomsky’s Augustinian Anarchism
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.”
Libertarians for Junk Science
Kevin Carson on politically selective criticism of junk science.
The Decline and Fall of Sloanism
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…
Health Care: An Anarchist Approach
The current US debate about health-care funding can be understood as concerned with meeting the challenge of doing three things at once: (1) Ensuring that everyone can afford to buy ample medical services and (2) lowering the price of care while (3) not interfering with our choices. An Unnecessary Tension among Health Care Goals—Created by…
Anarchy and Democracy
Fighting Fascism
Markets Not Capitalism
The Anatomy of Escape
Organization Theory