Defending Freedom, Combating Collectivism
Against collectivist impulses, the defense of freedom, personal responsibility, and the moral, political, legal, and economic foundations of a free society is ever necessary. Protecting the American experiment in ordered liberty is a debt that we owe to the past, and a challenge to pursue in the future. We examine the following issues in this area: the case for free trade vs. protectionism, individualism vs. the new collectivists (DEI/Critical Theory/Marxism/Social Democracy/Economic Nationalism/etc.), shareholder capitalism vs. ESG and stakeholder capitalism, foreign policy for a free society, and the foundations and first principles of freedom and free markets.
Research Publications for Defending Freedom, Combating Collectivism
Gordon Tullock and the Economics of Slavery
P Magness, A Carden, I Murtazashvili
Available at SSRN 4318585, 2023
Cryptocurrencies, Blockchain, and Public Choice
RM Yonk, D Waugh
Cryptocurrency Concepts, Technology, and Applications, 2023
AI ≠ UBI: Income Portfolio Adjustment to Technological Transformation
RE Wright, A Przegalinska
Augmented Education in the Global Age: Artificial Intelligence and the …, 2023
Darity, Camara, and MacLean on William H. Hutt
PW Magness, A Carden
Econ Journal Watch 19 (2), 204-231, 2022
Debating Universal Basic Income: Pros, Cons, and Alternatives
RE Wright, A Przegalińska
Springer Nature, 2022
Articles
Academic Lies about Free-Market Economists
“They treat history as ‘an armoury from which to ransack politically expedient weapons.’ In the process of that ransacking, they cross the line into willful misrepresentations of their source material, all in the service of a modern-day political cause. ” ~Phillip W. Magness
A Noted Physician Advocates COVID Civil Disobedience
“Even without cronyism showing the way, ineffective and dangerous drugs are not uncommon in the annals of medicine.” ~Barry Brownstein
Truck This: Why I’m Leaving the Long-Haul Industry
“However well-intentioned these rules and regulations might be, it’s clear that no one is consulting with the long haul truckers about the totally foreseeable bad outcomes.” ~Christopher Wilcox
Thinking Harder about “Special” Benefits
“To the extent we believe in giving government assistance to those with incomes, we should trust them to love themselves and their families more than the government does and give them that aid in cash.” ~Gary Galles
Orangeopia
“Perhaps an Orangeopian union or minimum wage can at least decrease income inequality, or maybe even increase the per capita standard of living?” ~Bruce Rottman
Nothing Was “Normal” on the Other Side of the Wall
“Nothing was ‘normal’ about the totalitarian life in socialist GDR, if by ‘normal’ we mean pursuit of human happiness and fulfilment.” ~Robertas Bakula and Luis Carlos Araujo Quintero