Thoughts On Economics

Here is John Stuart Mill stating a principle that sounds noble, and then immediately making a strange caveat. "The object of this E...

1.0 Summary of Defense Last month, Mike Munger purports to "summarize the basic argument for capitalism" (emphasis added). He...

The literature on neoliberalism is large. Here are some scholarly books on this subject or on related matters: The power of market fundam...

Here are three: Anthony Giddens, in The Third Way: The Renewal of Social Democracy (1999), advocates a renewed social democracy. He contr...

I have been re-reading Corey Robin's The Reactionary Mind . According to this book, defending arbitrary hierarchies is the first prior...

I try here to outline certain postmodern 1 doctrines that, in a full development, might result in one using obscure terminology. None of t...

1.0 Introduction A couple of months ago, I read John Locke's Second Treatise of Government . He has a caveat on his theory of property...

Some time ago, I read Hobbes's Leviathan , a classic argument for the existence of a social contract. I recently became aware of the ex...

I am of the opinion that talk of more or less government intervention in markets is incoherent in, for example, the United States today. It...

Figure 1: Paul Krugman And Bill O'Reilly Talk To Tim Russert "My problem was ... to pose the question, 'How is it that at ce...

1.0 Overview Propertarianism, misleadingly called "libertarianism" by its fans, is a political philosophy. Do any supposedly rigor...

I am hostile to the notion of logically deriving an ideal society from first principles. Ideal norms can only be understood by us humans in ...

One might meet, in certain precincts of the Internet, soi-disant libertarians. As far as I am concerned, "libertarians" of this st...

A charactistic transaction under capitalism is the selling of labor power for money wages. How was this transaction perceived in capitalism...