Defending Freedom, Fighting 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, Fighting Collectivism
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Gordon Tullock and the Economics of Slavery
Authors: P Magness, A Carden, I Murtazashvili
Publication: Available at SSRN 4318585, 2023
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AI ≠ UBI: Income Portfolio Adjustment to Technological Transformation
Authors: RE Wright, A Przegalinska
Publication: Augmented Education in the Global Age: Artificial Intelligence and the …, 2023
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Cryptocurrencies, Blockchain, and Public Choice
Authors: RM Yonk, D Waugh
Publication: Cryptocurrency Concepts, Technology, and Applications, 2023
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The danger of deplorable reactions
Authors: PW Magness, A Carden, I Murtazashvili
Publication: WH Hutt on liberalism, populism, and the constitutional political economy of …, 2022
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Misrepresenting Mises: Quotation Editing and a Rejection of Peer Review at Cambridge University Press.
Authors: PW Magness, A Janaskie
Publication: Econ Journal Watch 19 (1), 2022
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Darity, Camara, and MacLean on William H. Hutt
Authors: PW Magness, A Carden
Publication: Econ Journal Watch 19 (2), 204-231, 2022
Articles
Some Factual and Economic Errors of “Common Good Capitalism”
“Arguments for ‘common good capitalism’ are chock-a-block both with factual errors and faulty economic reasoning of a sort not found in arguments for true capitalism.” ~ Donald J. Boudreaux
What Are We For? A Challenge for Classical Liberals in the Academy
“The solution, the way to navigate the rapids downstream of where we are now, is clear, but not easy. It is to refocus on making the moral case for capitalism, on providing a positive, optimistic vision of the world that can be remade.” ~ Michael C. Munger
Earth Day, Waste and Productive Complements
“The analysis of productive complements opens the door to understanding the incentives that private property rights and markets provide to reduce waste and pollution, which is so at odds with one of the most common defamations made against them.” ~ Gary M. Galles
Protectionism Benefits Some at the Expense of Others
“We shouldn’t want our lawmakers to play favorites between domestic interests, and people should be more skeptical when policymakers dip into protectionist rhetoric.” ~ James M. Hohman
The Screen of Gyges
“Lousy information will continue contaminating the noosphere until we figure out how to incentivize truth-tracking. So it’s not just that we must set up systems that better track the truth (innovation). We must set ourselves up to better track the truth (wisdom).” ~ Max Borders
Patrick Henry’s Stamp Act Resolutions
“After Henry left town, the House of Burgesses expunged the fifth Resolve on the 31st. It only remains with us because it was found in an envelope alongside Henry’s will.” ~ James R. Harrigan
