Socialism
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The Dangers of the New Democratic Socialism
Regardless of the intentions or naïve beliefs, a system of democratic socialism cannot escape imposing commands and controls over economic life any noticeably different than those that were in existence in the old Soviet Union.
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France Is the Socialist Future We Should Dread
France was once a role model for what big government can do for its people, the very model of socialism sought by the American left. Now the place is in shambles.
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Political Contests Are Between Competing Socialisms
The classical liberal must remake the moral case for individual liberty and the individual rights without which freedom cannot last in the long run – and remake the case for why the paternalism of socialism and the welfare state leaves us less human than we can or should want to be.
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Postmodern Monetary Theory
How the strange funding scheme behind the Green New Deal rejects the scientific foundations of economics
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Anti-Socialism Isn’t (Necessarily) Pro-Capitalism
Anti-socialism without a coherent alternative tends to degenerate into a contradictory, idiosyncratic, and logically incoherent case for some unstable, impure mixture of the two systems.
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About this Proposal to End Air Travel
How to account for the existence of a document – widely trumpeted by the media – which proposes that we replace modern life for totalitarian government control?
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Why Centrally Planned War Cannot Work
All organized activities face challenges posed by knowledge problems, and warfare is no exception.
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Why MMT (Ultimately) Doesn’t Matter
MMT is an academically-garbed attempt to overcome the unwelcome fact that governments are as bound by economic limits as firms and individuals are. Yet liberty always triumphs.
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No Complex Society Can Be Socialist
“Tonight,” Trump said, “we renew our resolve that America will never be a socialist country.” Indeed no complex society can be.
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The Downsides and Dangers of Mission Making
Mission making turns economic decision-making into a political conflict of interest groups possessing bargaining power in the halls of government to determine what gets done, in what ways, and for whose benefit.
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The Dangers of the New Democratic Socialism
Regardless of the intentions or naïve beliefs, a system of democratic socialism cannot escape imposing commands and controls over economic life any noticeably different than those that were in existence in the old Soviet Union.
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France Is the Socialist Future We Should Dread
France was once a role model for what big government can do for its people, the very model of socialism sought by the American left. Now the place is in shambles.
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Political Contests Are Between Competing Socialisms
The classical liberal must remake the moral case for individual liberty and the individual rights without which freedom cannot last in the long run – and remake the case for why the paternalism of socialism and the welfare state leaves us less human than we can or should want to be.
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Postmodern Monetary Theory
How the strange funding scheme behind the Green New Deal rejects the scientific foundations of economics
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Anti-Socialism Isn’t (Necessarily) Pro-Capitalism
Anti-socialism without a coherent alternative tends to degenerate into a contradictory, idiosyncratic, and logically incoherent case for some unstable, impure mixture of the two systems.
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About this Proposal to End Air Travel
How to account for the existence of a document – widely trumpeted by the media – which proposes that we replace modern life for totalitarian government control?
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Why Centrally Planned War Cannot Work
All organized activities face challenges posed by knowledge problems, and warfare is no exception.
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Why MMT (Ultimately) Doesn’t Matter
MMT is an academically-garbed attempt to overcome the unwelcome fact that governments are as bound by economic limits as firms and individuals are. Yet liberty always triumphs.
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No Complex Society Can Be Socialist
“Tonight,” Trump said, “we renew our resolve that America will never be a socialist country.” Indeed no complex society can be.
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The Downsides and Dangers of Mission Making
Mission making turns economic decision-making into a political conflict of interest groups possessing bargaining power in the halls of government to determine what gets done, in what ways, and for whose benefit.