Tag: economic rent
Di Kevin Carson. Originale: John Tamny Hits the Trifecta of False Talking Points, del 24 gennaio 2024. Traduzione italiana di Enrico Sanna. John Tamny è vice presidente di FreedomWorks e direttore del Center for Economic Freedom, sempre di FreedomWorks. Scrivendo su Real Clear Markets, Tamny è riuscito a centrare tre argomenti falsi con un solo…
At Real Clear Markets, John Tamny — FreedomWorks Vice President and Director of the FreedomWorks Center for Economic Freedom — manages to fit an impressive number of fallacious talking points into one column. FreedomWorks, as you might know, is the outfit founded by Dick Armey — the crook extraordinaire who (along with fellow dumpster fires…
Di Kevin Carson. Originale: $10,000 Handbags? Arrrr, Matey! del 29 giugno 2023. Traduzione italiana di Enrico Sanna. Con un articolo dal titolo “Inside the Delirious Rise of ‘Superfake’ Handbags pubblicato sul New York Times,” Amy X. Wang parla della guerra persa dell’industria della moda contro le borse di lusso contraffatte indistinguibili dall’originale. Giusto qualche tempo…
In “Inside the Delirious Rise of ‘Superfake’ Handbags,” Amy X. Wang at the NYT reports on the fashion industry’s discomfiture over counterfeit luxury handbags that are indistinguishable from the real thing. Not long ago, I found myself wandering through Paris with a fake Celine handbag slung over my shoulder. In France, a country that prides…
There’s an old saying that when you see a turtle on top of a fencepost, you know it didn’t get up there on its own. In the official capitalist ideology — especially the version that prevails in neoliberal America — great wealth is seen as the reward for superior entrepreneurship, foresight and personal drive. As…
Proudhon on Economic Rent An Addendum to William Schnack’s Response to Kevin Carson Due to the unorthodox claims made in my last response, I wanted to give some supporting material for my depiction of Proudhon’s take on economic rent. Think of this as a long footnote, rather than the heart of my argument. My position is…
