Di Kevin Carson. Articolo originale: Misunderstanding “Infinite Growth” dell’undici agosto 2025. Tradotto da Enrico Sanna. Sul sito della Foundation for Economic Education, Patrick Carrol (“Responding to Reich, Part 10: How to Have Infinite Growth on a Finite Planet,” 18 febbraio) cerca di spiegare perché chi critica il capitalismo sbaglia a dire che in un pianeta finito…

Por Kevin Carson. Artigo original: Misunderstanding “Infinite Growth”, 11 de agosto de 2025. Traduzido por Ruan L. Na Foundation for Economic Education, Patrick Carroll (“Responding to Reich, Part 10: How to Have Infinite Growth on a Finite Planet”, 18 de Fevereiro) tenta explicar como os críticos do capitalismo estão errados em dizer que o crescimento…

At Foundation for Economic Education, Patrick Carroll (“Responding to Reich, Part 10: How to Have Infinite Growth on a Finite Planet,” Feb. 18)  Patrick Carroll attempts to explain why critics of capitalism are wrong to say that infinite growth is impossible on a finite planet. As for the idea of infinite growth on a finite…

Some time ago, in a Facebook argument, I encountered someone who repeated the old “exchange of unequals” argument (i.e., that people never exchange equivalents because each party values what they got more than what they traded for it). I responded that this argument confuses exchange value with use value and that, regardless of subjective valuation,…

Robert Reich contends that “Big Tech Has Become Way Too Powerful” (New York Times, September 20) — and so, to curb its power, big government must become way more powerful. Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google, like the railroad and oil trusts of the Gilded Age, are to Reich the natural result of market consolidation. Retelling the civics-textbook story of…