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…

Originale: Kevin Carson, The Thought of Ivan Illich: A Libertarian Analysis. Traduzione italiana di Enrico Sanna Versione stampabile pdf Nota del traduttore Per le citazioni tratte dai libri di Ivan Illich mi sono basato, per quanto mi è stato possibile, sulle edizioni in italiano. In alcuni casi, soprattutto quando le citazioni sono molto brevi, non…

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…

I recently stumbled across an old Tyler Cowen post at Marginal Revolution — on “zero marginal product workers” — which perfectly illustrates the circularity of marginal productivity analysis, and how it hides power relations behind a facade of neutral economic laws. As Cowen initially states the argument, we have had a recovery in output, but…

      Introduction: Two Kinds of Society Illich’s most common term for the kind of society or mode of production he is critiquing is “industrial age.” The overall theme of his projected future writing, he notes, is “an epilogue to the industrial age.” I want to describe the fading monopoly of the industrial mode…

Okumak üzere olduğunuz makale, James C. Wilson tarafından kaleme alınmış. 19 Ekim 2020 tarihinde “Atlas Shrugged: Ayn Rand and the Cult of Productivity” başlığı altında yayınlanmıştır. Ayn Rand’ın 1957 tarihinde yazılmış Atlas Silkindi adlı romanı, şanı kendisinden önce giden bir eser. Bazıları ondan nefret ediyor bazıları seviyor, ancak bu kitabı okumamışlar da dahil bu sitenin…

Ayn Rand’s 1957 novel Atlas Shrugged is a work whose reputation precedes it. Some may love and some may hate it, but most readers of this site, including ones who have not read this book, will likely have some knowledge of its major plot points and the ideological views of its author. Therefore this review…