Topic: Socialism

manners

Has Modernity Made Us Indecent?

– April 9, 2019

Compelling people to be “decent” through government taxing and spending in fact drains decency from human relationships.

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roadtoserfdom

The Road to Serfdom at 75 Years Young

– April 4, 2019

Hayek still speaks to us today about the nature of democratic ways of relating to the rule of law, the structure of government, the role of public policy, and the promise of an international order of cosmopolitan liberalism.

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socialismsov

The Dangers of the New Democratic Socialism

– April 2, 2019

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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frenchmess

France Is the Socialist Future We Should Dread

– March 22, 2019

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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politicalcompetition

Political Contests Are Between Competing Socialisms

– March 14, 2019

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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postmodernism

Postmodern Monetary Theory

– February 26, 2019

How the strange funding scheme behind the Green New Deal rejects the scientific foundations of economics

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bricklayer

The Labor Shortage Is Acute in Many Industries

– February 20, 2019

The data alone tell the story no one wants to hear. Continued economic growth does not so much allow as require the inclusion – indeed the expansion – of the number of undocumented immigrants on American employment rolls.

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clinchedfist

Anti-Socialism Isn’t (Necessarily) Pro-Capitalism

– February 14, 2019

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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crashingplane

About this Proposal to End Air Travel

– February 8, 2019

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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fogofwar

Why Centrally Planned War Cannot Work

– February 7, 2019

All organized activities face challenges posed by knowledge problems, and warfare is no exception.

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mmtsea

Why MMT (Ultimately) Doesn’t Matter

– February 6, 2019

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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socialcomplexity

No Complex Society Can Be Socialist

– February 6, 2019

“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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