tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83816132024-03-07T19:13:43.785-05:00Critiques Of LibertarianismThe "What's New" blog for the Critiques Of Libertarianism website.Mike Hubenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01371469964446567690noreply@blogger.comBlogger267125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8381613.post-58285815407071034662017-12-19T08:02:00.000-05:002017-12-19T08:02:31.286-05:00Bitcoin's prosperity.While some of my predictions for Bitcoin have come true (the rise of alternative digital currencies, for example), there is one factor that I did not account for.<br />
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The international demand for money laundering is enormous. Bitcoin has entered the realm of socially acceptable methods of money laundering. And while money laundering is definitely on the no-no list for most nations, I strongly doubt that even a small percentage of money laundering is caught. I'd love to see some statistical estimations. Money laundering is rarely caught for the same reason tax evasion is seldom caught: there is an enormous amount of money behind reduction of enforcement which has resulted in defunding much serious enforcement. The old boys club is all about laughing at the idea of enforcing laws upon themselves. The kleptocrats of the world don't want their pillaging interrupted. Etc.<br />
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So I think bitcoin values will continue to increase (with much fluctuation) because there is too much money behind preventing the international cooperation needed to regulate bitcoin (or any other form of money laundering.) The values will continue to increase until the demand for laundering is satisfied.<br />
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This leads to the prediction that other methods of laundering are on the decline. That would be interesting to measure as well. We'll see what happens to the banking industries in small tropical nations that are mostly reliant on laundering revenues.Mike Hubenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01371469964446567690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8381613.post-17995260294433612022017-06-05T23:01:00.002-04:002017-06-05T23:01:47.478-04:00I declare my new site operational!Well, I've been silent for almost 2 years: that's what happens when you <a href="http://ecuadormetamorphosis.blogspot.com/">divorce, fall in love with somebody you met 27 years earlier in Ecuador, and then retire to Ecuador.</a><br />
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<a href="http://critiques.us/">The new site works well, though the host is a bit slow. </a> Please give it a try and let me know what you think.<br />
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And also, if you would, donate to me through <a href="https://www.patreon.com/critiques">Patreon</a>! For 23 years I haven't asked for anything, but some money to run the site would be nice.Mike Hubenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01371469964446567690noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8381613.post-10096897334542570542014-12-29T06:24:00.000-05:002014-12-29T06:24:23.213-05:00A thought.Couldn't the Democratic and Republican parties negotiate a pact agreeing that they will not nominate either Hillary Clinton or Jeb Bush? Political dynasties are a very bad idea.Mike Hubenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01371469964446567690noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8381613.post-22502601609344532862014-09-06T20:01:00.001-04:002014-09-06T20:01:21.741-04:00Recent QuotationsHere are a bunch of the most recently added quotations. The red lines are the categories I've filed these in.<br />
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More deeply though there's something about how the rhetoric of 'freedom' and 'liberty' appeals to the 'neo-Confederate' mindset which is paradoxical and considerably more toxic and corrosive than the ways many of us think about those terms. Freedom can also mean freedom from any check on my actions. My freedom. My group's freedom. A warlord who totally dominates his followers has a sort of perfect liberty and freedom. Just not quite the sort we think of in a civic context. It's the same authoritarian mindset of Stormfront and the militia crazies, just through this looking glass where it twists into 'freedom' and 'liberty'.<br /><cite><a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Josh_Marshall&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Josh Marshall (page does not exist)">Josh Marshall</a>, "<a class="external text" href="http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/keeping-it-real-on-neo-confederate-libertarians" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Keeping It Real on 'neo-Confederate Libertarians'</a>"</cite></blockquote>
<small style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: red;">Freedom (propaganda), Josh Marshall, Keeping It Real on 'neo-Confederate Libertarians', Liberty (propaganda), Quotations, Racists</span></small><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"></span><br />
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What has been created by this half century of massive corporate propaganda is what's called "anti-politics". So that anything that goes wrong, you blame the government. Well okay, there's plenty to blame the government about, but the government is the one institution that people can change... the one institution that you can affect without institutional change. That's exactly why all the anger and fear has been directed at the government. The government has a defect - it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect - they're pure tyrannies. So therefore you want to keep corporations invisible, and focus all anger on the government. So if you don't like something, you know, your wages are going down, you blame the government. Not blame the guys in the Fortune 500, because you don't read the Fortune 500. You just read what they tell you in the newspapers... so you don't read about the dazzling profits and the stupendous dizz, and the wages going down and so on, all you know is that the bad government is doing something, so let's get mad at the government.<br /><cite><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Noam_Chomsky" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Noam Chomsky">Noam Chomsky</a></cite></blockquote>
<small style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: red;">Corporate Threats to Liberty, Corporations, Government, How Libertarian Ideas And Attitudes Are Spread, Noam Chomsky, Quotations, Wall Street, Corporatists, Neoliberals And Plutocrats</span></small><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"></span><br />
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If the State may be said to properly own its territory, then it is proper for it to make rules for anyone who presumes to live in that area. It can legitimately seize or control private property because there is no private property in its area, because it really owns the entire land surface. So long as the State permits its subjects to leave its territory, then, it can be said to act as does any other owner who sets down rules for people living on his property.<br /><cite><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Murray_Rothbard" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Murray Rothbard">Murray Rothbard</a>, "<a class="external text" href="http://mises.org/rothbard/ethics/twentytwo.asp" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">The Ethics of Liberty</a>"</cite></blockquote>
<small style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: red;">Government, Murray Rothbard, Property, Quotations, The Ethics of Liberty</span></small><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"></span><br />
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Why do people on the right hate monetary expansion, even when it’s desperately needed? One answer is the power of truthiness -- Stephen Colbert’s justly famed term for things that aren’t true, but feel true to some people. “The Fed is printing money, printing money leads to inflation, and inflation is always a bad thing” is a triply untrue statement, but it feels true to a lot of people. And, yes, a tendency to prefer truthiness to more complicated truth is and pretty much always has been associated with political conservatism, and this tendency is especially strong in an era when leading politicians get their monetary theory from Ayn Rand novels.<br /><cite><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Paul_Krugman" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Paul Krugman">Paul Krugman</a>, "<a class="external text" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/05/opinion/paul-krugman-the-deflation-caucus.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">The Deflation Caucus</a>"</cite></blockquote>
<small style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: red;">Ayn Rand, Currency, Paul Krugman, Quotations, The Deflation Caucus</span></small><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"></span><br />
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[...] a huge part of the problem is the Jeffersonian notion that “the government that governs best is the one that governs least.” While that is true as regards individual liberty, it is absolutely dangerous to think that way as regards the economy.<br /><cite><a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Christian_Parenti&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Christian Parenti (page does not exist)">Christian Parenti</a>, "<a class="external text" href="https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/08/reading-hamilton-from-the-left/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/gif; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 16px; text-decoration: none;">Reading Hamilton From the Left</a>"</cite></blockquote>
<small style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: red;">Capitalism, Christian Parenti, Deregulation, Globalization, Free Trade and Economic Freedom, Laissez Faire, Mercantilism And Industrial Policy Works, Quotations, Reading Hamilton From the Left, Thomas Jefferson</span></small><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"></span><br />
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The state is the necessary but not sufficient pre-condition for capitalism’s development. There is no creative destruction, competition, innovation, and accumulation without the “shadow socialism” of the public sector and state planning.<br /><cite><a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Christian_Parenti&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Christian Parenti (page does not exist)">Christian Parenti</a>, "<a class="external text" href="https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/08/reading-hamilton-from-the-left/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/gif; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 16px; text-decoration: none;">Reading Hamilton From the Left</a>"</cite></blockquote>
<small style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: red;">Capitalism, Christian Parenti, Mercantilism And Industrial Policy Works, Quotations, Reading Hamilton From the Left</span></small><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"></span><br />
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Outside a unionized workplace or the public sector, what most workers are agreeing to when they sign an employment contract is the alienation of many of their basic rights (speech, privacy, association, and so on) in exchange for pay and benefits. They may think they’re only agreeing to do a specific job, but what they are actually agreeing to do is to obey the commands and orders of their boss. It’s close to a version of Hobbesian contract theory—“The end of obedience is protection”—in which the worker gets money, benefits, and perhaps security in exchange for a radical alienation of her will.<br /><cite><a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Chris_Bertram&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Chris Bertram (page does not exist)">Chris Bertram</a>, "<a class="external text" href="http://crookedtimber.org/2012/07/01/let-it-bleed-libertarianism-and-the-workplace/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Let It Bleed: Libertarianism and the Workplace</a>"</cite></blockquote>
<small style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: red;">Alex Gourevitch, Chris Bertram, Constitutional Rights and Civil Liberties, Corey Robin, Let It Bleed: Libertarianism and the Workplace, Quotations, Rights, The Workplace</span></small><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"></span><br />
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But we know God hath not left one man so to the mercy of another, that he may starve him if he please: God the Lord and Father of all has given no one of his children such a property in his peculiar portion of the things of this world, but that <b>he has given his needy brother a right to the surplusage of his goods; so that it cannot justly be denied him, when his pressing wants call for it</b>: and therefore no man could ever have a just power over the life of another by right of property in land or possessions; since it would always be a sin, in any man of estate, to let his brother perish for want of affording him relief out of his plenty.<br /><cite><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=John_Locke" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="John Locke">John Locke</a>, "<a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Two_Treatises_on_Government" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Two Treatises on Government">Two Treatises on Government</a>, Chapter 4, §. 42."</cite></blockquote>
<small style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: red;">John Locke, Property, Quotations, Redistribution, The Lockean Fable of Initial Acquisition, Two Treatises on Government</span></small><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"></span><br />
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As it happens, I was reading a book about my second-favourite period of UK history over the weekend. It’s amusing to note how many of the arguments of the kind “raising labour standards will close down the factories and send the poor into horrible scavenging”, are nearly word-for-word copies of similar arguments made in the 1830s against the child labour laws passed in England. They were wrong then …<br /><cite><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Daniel_Davies" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Daniel Davies">Daniel Davies</a>, "<a class="external text" href="http://crookedtimber.org/2004/01/16/globollocks-v20/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Globollocks, v2.0</a>"</cite></blockquote>
<small style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: red;">Child Labor, Daniel Davies, Globalization, Free Trade and Economic Freedom, Globollocks, v2.0, Quotations</span></small><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"></span><br />
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Separate an individual from society, and give him an island or a continent to possess, and he cannot acquire personal property. He cannot be rich. So inseparably are the means connected with the end, in all cases, that where the former do not exist the latter cannot be obtained. All accumulation, therefore, of personal property, beyond what a man’s own hands produce, is derived to him by living in society; and he owes on every principle of justice, of gratitude, and of civilization, a part of that accumulation back again to society from whence the whole came.<br /><cite><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Thomas_Paine" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Thomas Paine">Thomas Paine</a>, "<a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Agrarian_Justice" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Agrarian Justice">Agrarian Justice</a>"</cite></blockquote>
<small style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: red;">Agrarian Justice, Institutions, Property, Quotations, Taxes, Thomas Paine</span></small><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"></span><br />
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Land, as before said, is the free gift of the Creator in common to the human race. Personal property is the effect of society; and it is as impossible for an individual to acquire personal property without the aid of society, as it is for him to make land originally.<br /><cite><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Thomas_Paine" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Thomas Paine">Thomas Paine</a>, "<a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Agrarian_Justice" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Agrarian Justice">Agrarian Justice</a>"</cite></blockquote>
<small style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: red;">Agrarian Justice, Property, Quotations, Thomas Paine</span></small><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"></span><br />
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There could be no such thing as landed property originally. Man did not make the earth, and, though he had a natural right to occupy it, he had no right to locate as his property in perpetuity any part of it; neither did the Creator of the earth open a land-office, from whence the first title-deeds should issue.<br /><cite><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Thomas_Paine" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Thomas Paine">Thomas Paine</a>, "<a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Agrarian_Justice" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Agrarian Justice">Agrarian Justice</a>"</cite></blockquote>
<small style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: red;">Agrarian Justice, Property, Quotations, Thomas Paine</span></small><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"></span><br />
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What’s curious is that conservative economists are well aware of the danger of “regulatory capture”, in which public institutions are hijacked by vested interests, yet blithely dismiss (or refuse even to mention) the essentially equivalent problem of democratic institutions hijacked by concentrated wealth. I take regulatory capture quite seriously; but I take plutocratic capture equally seriously.<br /><cite><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Paul_Krugman" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Paul Krugman">Paul Krugman</a>, "<a class="external text" href="http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/06/24/sympathy-for-the-trustafarians/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Sympathy for the Trustafarians</a>"</cite></blockquote>
<small style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: red;">Deregulation, Greg Mankiw, Obstructing Regulation And Regulatory Capture, Paul Krugman, Plutocracy, Quotations, Sympathy for the Trustafarians</span></small><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"></span><br />
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For that matter, where was the libertarian right during the great struggles for individual liberty in America in the last half-century? The libertarian movement has been conspicuously absent from the campaigns for civil rights for nonwhites, women, gays and lesbians. Most, if not all, libertarians support sexual and reproductive freedom (though Rand Paul has expressed doubts about federal civil rights legislation). But civil libertarian activists are found overwhelmingly on the left. Their right-wing brethren have been concerned with issues more important than civil rights, voting rights, abuses by police and the military, and the subordination of politics to religion -- issues like the campaign to expand human freedom by turning highways over to toll-extracting private corporations and the crusade to funnel money from Social Security to Wall Street brokerage firms.<br /><cite><a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Michael_Lind&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Michael Lind (page does not exist)">Michael Lind</a>, "<a class="external text" href="http://www.salon.com/2011/08/30/lind_libertariansim/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Why libertarians apologize for autocracy</a>"</cite></blockquote>
<small style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: red;">Civil Rights, Democracy, Dictators And Other Anti-Democratic Authoritarians, Human Rights and Civil Liberties, Inequality, Michael Lind, Quotations, Why libertarians apologize for autocracy</span></small><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"></span><br />
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But the Grab World baseline allows us to see that all economic institutions are restrictions and infringements on liberty. Property is the most liberty-destroying and all-encompassing of the restrictive economic institutions, but contracts, patents, copyrights, securities, corporations, and so on do the same thing. With Grab World as the actual blank slate starting point baseline, it's clear that all we are debating about is what set of liberty-infringing restrictions are the best ones (unless you actually advocate the Grab World).<br /><cite><a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Matt_Bruenig&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Matt Bruenig (page does not exist)">Matt Bruenig</a>, "<a class="external text" href="http://www.demos.org/blog/6/3/14/lesson-grab-what-you-can" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">The Lesson of Grab What You Can</a>"</cite></blockquote>
<small style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: red;">Institutions, Matt Bruenig, Non-Aggression, Property, Quotations, The Lesson of Grab What You Can</span></small><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"></span><br />
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The market fundamentalists of Technology Liberation Front and Silicon Valley would love you to believe that “permissionless innovation” is somehow organic to “the internet,” but in fact it is an experiment we conducted for a long time in the US, and the experiment proved that it does not work. From the EPA to the FDA to OSHA, nearly every Federal (and State) regulatory agency exists because of significant, usually deadly failures of industry to restrain itself.<br /><cite><a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=David_Golumbia&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="David Golumbia (page does not exist)">David Golumbia</a>, "<a class="external text" href="http://www.uncomputing.org/?p=1383" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">“Permissionless Innovation”: Using Technology to Dismantle the Republic</a>"</cite></blockquote>
<small style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: red;">David Golumbia, Environment, Freedom Through Technology, Harms Of Libertarian Policies, Permissionless Innovation, Quotations, Regulation, Responsibility, “Permissionless Innovation”: Using Technology to Dismantle the Republic</span></small><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"></span><br />
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Libertarianism is the One Weird Trick For Solving Any Issue, Politicians HATE Us! of politics. It reduces many of the most complex problems in the world to a set of answers concise enough that they can fit on the back of a business card (isolationism, tiny government, bare minimal taxation).<br /><cite><a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Kirkaine&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Kirkaine (page does not exist)">Kirkaine</a>, "<a class="external text" href="http://np.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/259sqn/cmv_libertarians_are_primarily_concerned_with/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Libertarians are primarily concerned with feeling correct, not about real world results.</a>"</cite></blockquote>
<small style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: red;">Capitalism, Markets and Laissez-Faire, How Libertarian Ideas And Attitudes Are Spread, Kirkaine, Libertarian Economic And Political Experiments, Libertarians are primarily concerned with feeling correct, not about real world results., Predictions That Never Come True, Quotations, Unclassified Criticisms</span></small><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"></span><br />
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The bloodstained story of economic individualism and unrestrained capitalist competition does not, I should have thought, today need stressing. Nevertheless, in view of the astonishing opinions which some of my critics have imputed to me, I should […] have made even clearer […] the evils of unrestricted laissez-faire.<br /><cite><a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Isaiah_Berlin&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Isaiah Berlin (page does not exist)">Isaiah Berlin</a>, "Four Essays on Liberty"</cite></blockquote>
<small style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: red;">Capitalism, Four Essays on Liberty, Isaiah Berlin, Laissez Faire, Quotations</span></small><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"></span><br />
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I do not wish to say that individual freedom is, even in the most liberal societies, the sole, or even the dominant, criterion of social action. We compel children to be educated, and we forbid public executions. These are certainly curbs to freedom. We justify them on the ground that ignorance, or a barbarian upbringing, or cruel pleasures and excitements are worse for us than the amount of restraint needed to repress them.<br /><cite><a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Isaiah_Berlin&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Isaiah Berlin (page does not exist)">Isaiah Berlin</a>, "<a class="external text" href="http://www.wiso.uni-hamburg.de/fileadmin/wiso_vwl/johannes/Ankuendigungen/Berlin_twoconceptsofliberty.pdf" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 12px; text-decoration: none;">Two Concepts of Liberty</a>"</cite></blockquote>
<small style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: red;">Isaiah Berlin, Liberty, Quotations, Two Concepts of Liberty</span></small><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"></span><br />
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In so far as I live in society, everything that I do inevitably affects, and is affected by, what others do. Even Mill's strenuous effort to mark the distinction between the spheres of private and social life breaks down under examination. Virtually all Mill's critics have pointed out that everything that I do may have results which will harm other human beings.<br /><cite><a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Isaiah_Berlin&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Isaiah Berlin (page does not exist)">Isaiah Berlin</a>, "<a class="external text" href="http://www.wiso.uni-hamburg.de/fileadmin/wiso_vwl/johannes/Ankuendigungen/Berlin_twoconceptsofliberty.pdf" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 12px; text-decoration: none;">Two Concepts of Liberty</a>"</cite></blockquote>
<small style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: red;">Externalities, Isaiah Berlin, John Stuart Mill, Liberty, Quotations, Two Concepts of Liberty</span></small><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"></span><br />
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First things come first [...] individual freedom is not everyone's primary need.<br /><cite><a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Isaiah_Berlin&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Isaiah Berlin (page does not exist)">Isaiah Berlin</a>, "<a class="external text" href="http://www.wiso.uni-hamburg.de/fileadmin/wiso_vwl/johannes/Ankuendigungen/Berlin_twoconceptsofliberty.pdf" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 12px; text-decoration: none;">Two Concepts of Liberty</a>"</cite></blockquote>
<small style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: red;">Isaiah Berlin, Liberty, Quotations, There Are Important Values Besides Liberty, Two Concepts of Liberty</span></small><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"></span><br />
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Almost every moralist in human history has praised freedom. Like happiness and goodness, like nature and reality, it is a term whose meaning is so porous that there is little interpretation that it seems able to resist.<br /><cite><a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Isaiah_Berlin&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Isaiah Berlin (page does not exist)">Isaiah Berlin</a>, "<a class="external text" href="http://www.wiso.uni-hamburg.de/fileadmin/wiso_vwl/johannes/Ankuendigungen/Berlin_twoconceptsofliberty.pdf" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 12px; text-decoration: none;">Two Concepts of Liberty</a>"</cite></blockquote>
<small style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: red;">Isaiah Berlin, Libertarians Misunderstand Liberty, Liberty, Positive and Negative Liberty, Quotations, Two Concepts of Liberty</span></small><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"></span><br />
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But what do people mean who proclaim that liberty is the palm, and the prize, and the crown, seeing that it is an idea of which there are two hundred definitions, and that this wealth of interpretation has caused more bloodshed than anything, except theology?<br /><cite><a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Lord_Acton&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Lord Acton (page does not exist)">Lord Acton</a>, "Inaugural Lecture on the Study of History"</cite></blockquote>
<small style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: red;">Liberty, Lord Acton, Quotations</span></small><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"></span><br />
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[A]ll these economic theories are at least debatable and often highly questionable. Contrary to what professional economists will typically tell you, economics is not a science. All economic theories have underlying political and ethical assumptions, which make it impossible to prove them right or wrong in the way we can with theories in physics or chemistry.<br /><cite><a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Ha-Joon_Chang&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Ha-Joon Chang (page does not exist)">Ha-Joon Chang</a>, "<a class="external text" href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/30/economics-experts-economists" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Economics is too important to leave to the experts</a>"</cite></blockquote>
<small style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: red;">Common Fallacies Of Economics, Economics Should Not Tell Us What To Do, Economics is too important to leave to the experts, Ha-Joon Chang, Quotations, Supply-Side Economics</span></small><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"></span><br />
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All ownership derives from occupation and violence. [...] That all rights derive from violence, all ownership from appropriation or robbery, we may freely admit to those who oppose ownership on considerations of natural law.<br /><cite><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Ludwig_von_Mises" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Ludwig von Mises">Ludwig von Mises</a>, "<a class="external text" href="http://mises.org/books/socialism/part1_ch.1.aspx" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis</a>" Ch. 1, section 2.</cite></blockquote>
<small style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: red;">Coercion, Ludwig von Mises, Property, Quotations, Rights</span></small><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"></span><br />
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[T]he people who insist on being armed as a "demonstration" or a "protest" are using the second amendment to quell dissent. And they are forcing unarmed law abiding citizens to behave in different ways toward them than they behave with others --- less freedom for them, more for the gun owners. Once you put convenient, lethal force in the mix, liberty becomes a zero sum game.<br /><cite><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Heather_Parton" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Heather Parton">Heather Parton</a>, "<a class="external text" href="http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2014/05/speaking-of-guns.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Speaking of guns</a>"</cite></blockquote>
<small style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: red;">Digby, Guns, Quotations, Speaking of guns</span></small><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"></span><br />
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People who dismiss the unemployed and dependent as ‘parasites’ fail to understand economics and parasitism. A successful parasite is one that is not recognized by its host, one that can make its host work for it without appearing as a burden. Such is the ruling class in a capitalist society.<br /><cite><a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Jason_Read&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Jason Read (page does not exist)">Jason Read</a>, "<a class="external text" href="http://usmfreepress.org/2012/01/22/how-a-usm-professor-became-an-internet-meme/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">How a USM professor became an Internet meme</a>"</cite></blockquote>
<small style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: red;">Class War, Jason Read, Quotations, Wall Street, Corporatists, Neoliberals And Plutocrats</span></small><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"></span><br />
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Normally, conservatives extol the magic of markets and the adaptability of the private sector, which is supposedly able to transcend with ease any constraints posed by, say, limited supplies of natural resources. But as soon as anyone proposes adding a few limits to reflect environmental issues -- such as a cap on carbon emissions -- those all-capable corporations supposedly lose any ability to cope with change.<br /><cite><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Paul_Krugman" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Paul Krugman">Paul Krugman</a>, "<a class="external text" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/12/opinion/krugman-crazy-climate-economics.html?_r=0" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Crazy Climate Economics</a>"</cite></blockquote>
<small style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: red;">Crazy Climate Economics, Deregulation, Environment, Free Market, Paul Krugman, Quotations, Responsibility</span></small><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"></span><br />
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So how do you do useful economics? In general, what we really do is combine maximization-and-equilibrium as a first cut with a variety of ad hoc modifications reflecting what seem to be empirical regularities about how both individual behavior and markets depart from this idealized case. [...] But here’s the thing: economists have done their work this way for generations. So it’s really not a new paradigm. If anything, the true new paradigm was the attempt to justify everything with maximization and equilibrium -- but that’s the paradigm that failed.<br /><cite><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Paul_Krugman" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Paul Krugman">Paul Krugman</a>, "<a class="external text" href="http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/28/paradigming-is-hard/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Paradigming Is Hard</a>"</cite></blockquote>
<small style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: red;">Economics 101, Market Failure, Paradigming Is Hard, Paul Krugman, Quotations</span></small><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"></span><br />
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There were some -- Frédéric Bastiat and Jean-Baptiste Say come to mind -- who believed that government should put the unemployed to work building infrastructure when markets or production were temporarily disrupted.<br /><cite><a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Brad_DeLong&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Brad DeLong (page does not exist)">Brad DeLong</a>, "<a class="external text" href="http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/american-conservatism-s-crisis-of-ideas-by-j--bradford-delong" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">American Conservatism’s Crisis of Ideas</a>"</cite></blockquote>
<small style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: red;">American Conservatism’s Crisis of Ideas, Brad DeLong, Frederic Bastiat, Jean-Baptiste Say, Non-Libertarians Supposedly Supporting Libertarian Viewpoints, Quotations</span></small><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"></span><br />
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Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.<br /><cite><a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Bertrand_Russell&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Bertrand Russell (page does not exist)">Bertrand Russell</a>, Sceptical Essays (1928), Chapter 13</cite></blockquote>
<small style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: red;">Bertrand Russell, Capitalism, Class War, Plutocracy, Privilege, Quotations, The Workplace</span></small><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"></span><br />
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The problem is that this homesteading action is outrageously un-libertarian. It involves a single actor unilaterally deciding to eliminate the previously existing access every other person had to some piece of the world, doing so without the consent of those dispossessed of their access, and through the use of violence (i.e. if you try to access the object they now claim to own, they physically push you off or worse).<br /><cite><a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Matt_Bruenig&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Matt Bruenig (page does not exist)">Matt Bruenig</a>, "<a class="external text" href="http://mattbruenig.com/2013/08/17/the-nozickian-case-for-rawls-difference-principle/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">The Nozickian case for Rawls’ difference principle</a>"</cite></blockquote>
<small style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: red;">Egalitarianism, Homesteading, Initial Acquisition, John Rawls, Matt Bruenig, Non-Aggression, Property Is Coercive, Quotations, Robert Nozick, The Nozickian case for Rawls’ difference principle</span></small><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"></span><br />
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That property violates the non-aggression principle is so obviously true that it is amusing anyone ever contends otherwise. The institution of property is the most statist, violent, aggressive, anti-libertarian, big government program in history. Through laws of one sort or another, people are violently restricted from nearly every single piece of the world around them. They do not consent to these restrictions, which are imposed from without, unilaterally and at the barrel of a gun. In the process, every shred of negative liberty and self-ownership is destroyed.<br /><cite><a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Matt_Bruenig&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Matt Bruenig (page does not exist)">Matt Bruenig</a>, "<a class="external text" href="http://mattbruenig.com/2014/04/12/salvaging-non-aggression-for-egalitarianism/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Salvaging Non-Aggression for Egalitarianism</a>"</cite></blockquote>
<small style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: red;">Egalitarianism, Matt Bruenig, Non-Aggression, Property Is Coercive, Quotations, Salvaging Non-Aggression for Egalitarianism</span></small><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"></span><br />
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Private Property therefore is a Creature of Society, and is subject to the Calls of that Society, whenever its Necessities shall require it, even to its last Farthing; its Contributions therefore to the public Exigencies are not to be considered as conferring a Benefit on the Publick, entitling the Contributors to the Distinctions of Honour and Power, but as the Return of an Obligation previously received, or the Payment of a just Debt.<br /><cite><a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Benjamin_Franklin&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Benjamin Franklin (page does not exist)">Benjamin Franklin</a>, <a class="external text" href="http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch12s25.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Queries and Remarks respecting Alterations in the Constitution of Pennsylvania, 1789</a></cite></blockquote>
<small style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: red;">Benjamin Franklin, Government Creates Rights, Property, Quotations</span></small><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"></span><br />
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All Property, indeed, except the Savage's temporary Cabin, his Bow, his Matchcoat, and other little Acquisitions, absolutely necessary for his Subsistence, seems to me to be the Creature of public Convention. Hence the Public has the Right of Regulating Descents, and all other Conveyances of Property, and even of limiting the Quantity and the Uses of it. All the Property that is necessary to a Man, for the Conservation of the Individual and the Propagation of the Species, is his natural Right, which none can justly deprive him of: But all Property superfluous to such purposes is the Property of the Publick, who, by their Laws, have created it, and who may therefore by other Laws dispose of it, whenever the Welfare of the Publick shall demand such Disposition. He that does not like civil Society on these Terms, let him retire and live among Savages. He can have no right to the benefits of Society, who will not pay his Club towards the Support of it.<br /><cite><a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Benjamin_Franklin&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Benjamin Franklin (page does not exist)">Benjamin Franklin</a>, <a class="external text" href="http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch16s12.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Benjamin Franklin to Robert Morris, 25 Dec. 1783</a></cite></blockquote>
<small style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: red;">Benjamin Franklin, Government Creates Rights, Property, Quotations</span></small><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"></span><br />
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While it is a moot question whether the origin of any kind of property is derived from Nature at all … it is considered by those who have seriously considered the subject, that no one has, of natural right, a separate property in an acre of land … Stable ownership is the gift of social law, and is given late in the progress of society.<br /><cite><a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Thomas_Jefferson&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Thomas Jefferson (page does not exist)">Thomas Jefferson</a>, <a class="external text" href="http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/print_documents/v1ch16s25.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Thomas Jefferson to Isaac McPherson, 13 Aug. 1813</a></cite></blockquote>
<small style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: red;">Government Creates Rights, Property, Quotations, Thomas Jefferson</span></small><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"></span><br />
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Those who "abjure" violence can only do so because others are committing violence on their behalf.<br /><cite><a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=George_Orwell&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="George Orwell (page does not exist)">George Orwell</a>, "<a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Notes_on_Nationalism&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Notes on Nationalism (page does not exist)">Notes on Nationalism</a>" May, 1945</cite></blockquote>
<small style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: red;">Capitalism, Coercion, George Orwell, Government, Notes on Nationalism, Quotations, The Draft</span></small><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"></span><br />
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What became increasingly evident to me was that the Austrian equation of preference and action is crude behaviorism. I know by introspection that I have preferences that I fail to act upon. And while I do not have telepathy, it is overwhelmingly probable that the same holds for my fellow human beings. Once you grant this principle, the most distinctive Austrian doctrines crumble.<br /><cite><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Bryan_Caplan" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Bryan Caplan">Bryan Caplan</a>, "<a class="external text" href="http://econfaculty.gmu.edu/bcaplan/autobio.htm" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Intellectual Autobiography of Bryan Caplan</a>"</cite></blockquote>
<small style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: red;">Austrian Economics, Bryan Caplan, Intellectual Autobiography of Bryan Caplan, Quotations</span></small><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"></span><br />
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I wouldn't confuse conservative libertarianism with a genuine philosophy, open to considering reasoned objections. Bryan Caplan is a libertarian, because that's his job! It is a completely synthetic ideology, deliberately manufactured by a cadre of full-time professionals. And, I don't think their employers intend to make the masses any smarter about the economy or society. In short, libertarians are a product of increasing inequality; of course, they are in favor of increasing inequality, and would prefer that no one draw attention to its deleterious effects; libertarianism is one of increasing inequality's deleterious effects!<br /><cite><a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Bruce_Wilder&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Bruce Wilder (page does not exist)">Bruce Wilder</a>, "<a class="external text" href="http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/libertarian-solution-to-inequality-shut.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">The libertarian solution to inequality</a>"</cite></blockquote>
<small style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: red;">Bruce Wilder, Ideology, Inequality, Introduction To Libertarianism, Philosophy, Plutocracy, Quotations, The libertarian solution to inequality</span></small><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"></span><br />
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The libertarian movement annoys me because I feel like it's sucked up a lot of mental energy, creativity, and idealism that could have been put to better use - like the communist movement did generations earlier. I think it did some good, but it's a maximalist, package-deal ideology, and like all such ideologies it's gone into la-la land. I don't think it's killing the country but I think it's done some damage. So there you go.<br /><cite><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Noah_Smith" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Noah Smith">Noah Smith</a>, "<a class="external text" href="http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/libertarian-solution-to-inequality-shut.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">The libertarian solution to inequality</a>"</cite></blockquote>
<small style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: red;">Ideology, Noah Smith, Quotations, The libertarian solution to inequality</span></small><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"></span><br />
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In reality, the “free market” is a bunch of rules about (1) what can be owned and traded (the genome? slaves? nuclear materials? babies? votes?); (2) on what terms (equal access to the internet? the right to organize unions? corporate monopolies? the length of patent protections? ); (3) under what conditions (poisonous drugs? unsafe foods? deceptive Ponzi schemes? uninsured derivatives? dangerous workplaces?) (4) what’s private and what’s public (police? roads? clean air and clean water? healthcare? good schools? parks and playgrounds?); (5) how to pay for what (taxes, user fees, individual pricing?). And so on.<br /><cite><a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Robert_Reich&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Robert Reich (page does not exist)">Robert Reich</a>, "<a class="external text" href="http://robertreich.org/post/61406074983" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">The Myth of the “Free Market” and How to Make the Economy Work for Us</a>"</cite></blockquote>
<small style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: red;">Capitalism, Markets and Laissez-Faire, Free Market, Institutions, Markets Are Created By Government, Quotations, Robert Reich, The Myth of the “Free Market” and How to Make the Economy Work for Us</span></small><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"></span><br />
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Neoliberals in the innermost shell (like the Koch brothers) use libertarians at farther removes (like the Tea Party) not always to realize their agenda directly, but to push political discourse to the hard right.<br /><cite><a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=David_Golumbia&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="David Golumbia (page does not exist)">David Golumbia</a>, "<a class="external text" href="https://www.jacobinmag.com/2013/12/cyberlibertarians-digital-deletion-of-the-left/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/gif; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 16px; text-decoration: none;">Cyberlibertarians’ Digital Deletion of the Left</a>"</cite></blockquote>
<small style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: red;">Charles and David Koch, Cyberlibertarianism, Cyberlibertarians’ Digital Deletion of the Left, David Golumbia, Kochtopus, Quotations, Vast, Right-Wing Conspiracy, Wall Street, Corporatists, Neoliberals And Plutocrats</span></small><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"></span><br />
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Thus despite, for example, the dogmatic insistence on “spontaneous order” as the exclusive result of market-based transactions -- transactions that in core neoliberal dogma are said to be the only permissible form of social planning -- the social policies pursued by the MPS [Mont Pelerin Society] and its outer shells [libertarianism, classical liberalism, etc.] are often exquisitely planned, anything but spontaneous, and have nothing to do with any market.<br /><cite><a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=David_Golumbia&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="David Golumbia (page does not exist)">David Golumbia</a>, "<a class="external text" href="http://www.uncomputing.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/cyberlibertarianism-extremist-foundations-sep2013.pdf" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 12px; text-decoration: none;">Cyberlibertarianism: The Extremist Foundations of ‘Digital Freedom’</a>"</cite></blockquote>
<small style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: red;">Central Planning, Classical Liberal, Cyberlibertarianism: The Extremist Foundations of ‘Digital Freedom’, David Golumbia, Descriptions Of Libertarianism, Freedom Through Technology, Ideology, Liberal Criticisms Of Libertarianism, Neoliberalism, Quotations, Spontaneous Order, Vast, Right-Wing Conspiracy, Wall Street, Corporatists, Neoliberals And Plutocrats</span></small><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"></span><br />
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Many entrepreneurs hold the opinion that “I did it all on my own,” which may be well adapted to leadership success in certain situations, but it is objectively myopic. The entrepreneur relies on an ecosystem of venture capitalists, risk-taking purchasers, and so on. This ecosystem itself rests on a deeper foundation of collective, government-led enterprise. The delivery of our software, for example, depended on the existence of the Internet, which is the product of a series of government-sponsored R&D efforts, in combination with subsequent massive private commercial development. Government funding has been essential to much of the university science that entrepreneurs have exploited. Honest courts and police are required for functioning capital markets and protection of assets; physical infrastructure is required for the roads and running water without which we would not spend much time thinking about artificial intelligence software. At the absolute foundation, national armed forces protect the whole system against external aggression. All of our exciting technical and economic innovations ultimately require men to stand watch all night looking through Starlight scopes mounted on assault rifles—and die if necessary—to protect our commercial, law-bound society. Would you do this to protect a billionaire hedge-fund manager who sees his country as nothing more than lines on a map?<br /><cite><a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Jim_Manzi&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Jim Manzi (page does not exist)">Jim Manzi</a>, "<a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Uncontrolled:_The_Surprising_Payoff_of_Trial-and-Error_for_Business,_Politics,_and_Society&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Uncontrolled: The Surprising Payoff of Trial-and-Error for Business, Politics, and Society (page does not exist)">Uncontrolled: The Surprising Payoff of Trial-and-Error for Business, Politics, and Society</a>"</cite></blockquote>
<small style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: red;">Earned, Fallacies Of Ideology, Jim Manzi, Quotations, Taxes, Uncontrolled: The Surprising Payoff of Trial-and-Error for Business, Politics, and Society</span></small><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"></span><br />
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People who think "free markets" work in healthcare or the Internet are just as functionally stupid about economics as the most hardline Communist who thinks that the government should exercise full control of the toothpaste market. Most of the world understands by now that the second guy is a dangerous fool. But we're at a weird point in history where the first guy undeservedly has more credibility. He shouldn't--and he won't for long.<br /><cite><a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=David_Atkins&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="David Atkins (page does not exist)">David Atkins</a>, "<a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Americans:_we_love_paying_more_for_less&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Americans: we love paying more for less (page does not exist)">Americans: we love paying more for less</a>"</cite></blockquote>
<small style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: red;">Americans: we love paying more for less, Communism, David Atkins, Economics, Free Market, Health Care, Internet, Laissez Faire, Market Failure, Quotations</span></small><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"></span><br />
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In its own way, the "No True Libertarianism" argument is very similar to the "No True Communism" of those on the far left, who argue that the fault of Communism lies not with the idea, but with the practice--despite the fact that no successful large-scale Communism has ever been implemented in the world. Neither ideology can fail its adherents. They can only be failed by imperfect practitioners. Both ideologies run counter to human nature for the same reason: power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.<br /><cite><a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=David_Atkins&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="David Atkins (page does not exist)">David Atkins</a>, "<a class="external text" href="http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2011/12/no-true-libertarianism-fallacy.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">The "No True Libertarianism" fallacy</a>"</cite></blockquote>
<small style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: red;">Communism, David Atkins, Failures Of Libertarian Philosophy, Fallacies Of Ideology, Institutions, Quotations, The "No True Libertarianism" fallacy, Unclassified Criticisms</span></small><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"></span><br />
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Urban street gangs in under-policed neighborhoods, mafias in under-taxed countries, and groups like Hezbollah in Lebanon invariably step in to fill the void where government fails. When the Japanese government wasn't able to adequately help the population after the earthquake and tsunami, the yakuza helpfully stepped in to do it for them. The devolution of local authority and taxation into the hands of criminal groups willing to provide a safety net in exchange for their cut of the action is the invariable pre-feudal result of the breakdown of the government-backed safety net. It happens every single time. The people will want a safety net where utter chaos doesn't prevent it: they'll either get it from an accountable governmental authority, or from a non-governmental authority of shadowy legality. Both kinds of authority will levy their own form of taxation, be it legal and official, or part of an illegal protection scheme.<br /><cite><a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=David_Atkins&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="David Atkins (page does not exist)">David Atkins</a>, "<a class="external text" href="http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2011/12/no-true-libertarianism-fallacy.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">The "No True Libertarianism" fallacy</a>"</cite></blockquote>
<small style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: red;">Anarcho-capitalism, David Atkins, Democracy, Institutions, Privatization, Public Expansions Of Liberty, Quotations, Real World Power, The "No True Libertarianism" fallacy, Things Government Should Do</span></small><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"></span><br />
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If the 1 percent are able to extract vast sums from the economy it is because we have structured the economy for this purpose. It could easily be structured differently, but the 1 percent and its defenders aren't interested in changing things.<br /><cite><a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Dean_Baker&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Dean Baker (page does not exist)">Dean Baker</a>, "<a class="external text" href="http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/inequality-by-design-its-not-just-talent-and-hard-work" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Inequality By Design: It Is Not Just Talent and Hard Work</a>"</cite></blockquote>
<small style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: red;">Class War, Dean Baker, Inequality, Inequality By Design: It Is Not Just Talent and Hard Work, Quotations</span></small>Mike Hubenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01371469964446567690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8381613.post-73843904175580762542014-09-06T19:56:00.002-04:002014-09-06T19:56:32.518-04:00What's New...<dl style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.2em;">Another 96 or so entries.</dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 9/06/2014:</span></i> <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_Half_Has_Never_Been_Told:_Slavery_and_the_Making_of_American_Capitalism" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism">The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism</a></dt>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"We simply need to recognize that markets have no implicit moral authority." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=25_Horrifying_Images_of_the_%22Free%22_Market_at_Work" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="25 Horrifying Images of the "Free" Market at Work">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 9/06/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://antilibertariancriticism.wordpress.com/2014/07/08/critical-map-of-the-american-libertarian-movement/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Critical Map of the American Libertarian Movement</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Critical_Map_of_the_American_Libertarian_Movement" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Critical Map of the American Libertarian Movement">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Descriptions of 8 of the most noisy libertarian groups. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Critical_Map_of_the_American_Libertarian_Movement" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Critical Map of the American Libertarian Movement">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 9/06/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2009/08/rothbard-revisited.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Rothbard revisited</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Rothbard_revisited" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Rothbard revisited">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Conservative philosopher Edward Feser rebuts <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Gerald_Casey&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Gerald Casey (page does not exist)">Gerald Casey</a>'s defense of <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Murray_Rothbard" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Murray Rothbard">Murray Rothbard</a>. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Rothbard_revisited" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Rothbard revisited">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 9/06/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2009/08/rothbard-as-philosopher.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Rothbard as a philosopher</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Rothbard_as_a_philosopher" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Rothbard as a philosopher">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Conservative philosopher Edward Feser says: "he seems incapable of producing even a minimally respectable philosophical argument, by which I mean an argument that doesn't commit any obvious fallacies or fail to address certain obvious objections." Ouch! Rothbard's argument for self-ownership is dissected. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Rothbard_as_a_philosopher" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Rothbard as a philosopher">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 9/06/2014:</span></i> <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_many_divisions_within_libertarianism." style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The many divisions within libertarianism.">The many divisions within libertarianism.</a></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Libertarians are united only by a rhetoric of liberty. Socially, philosophically, and economically they have innumerable, unreconcilable divisions. If you ever want to side-track a group of libertarians, raise one of these divisions in discussion. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_many_divisions_within_libertarianism." style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The many divisions within libertarianism.">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 9/06/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://www.heritage.org/research/factsheets/2012/02/nullification-unlawful-and-unconstitutional" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Nullification: Unlawful and Unconstitutional</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Nullification:_Unlawful_and_Unconstitutional" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Nullification: Unlawful and Unconstitutional">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">A short <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Heritage_Foundation&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Heritage Foundation (page does not exist)">Heritage Foundation</a> Factsheet. There's probably much better out there. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Nullification:_Unlawful_and_Unconstitutional" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Nullification: Unlawful and Unconstitutional">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 9/06/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://www.politicalresearch.org/2013/11/22/nullification-neo-confederates-and-the-revenge-of-the-old-right/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Nullification, Neo-Confederates, and the Revenge of the old Right</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Nullification,_Neo-Confederates,_and_the_Revenge_of_the_old_Right" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Nullification, Neo-Confederates, and the Revenge of the old Right">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"Behind the recent surge of nullification bills in state legislatures there is an ongoing battle for the soul of the GOP—and the future of the union itself. The nullification movement’s ideology is rooted in reverence for states’ rights and a theocratic and neo-Confederate interpretation of U.S. history. And Ron Paul, who is often portrayed as a libertarian, is the engine behind the movement." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Nullification,_Neo-Confederates,_and_the_Revenge_of_the_old_Right" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Nullification, Neo-Confederates, and the Revenge of the old Right">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 9/06/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/keeping-it-real-on-neo-confederate-libertarians" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Keeping It Real on 'neo-Confederate Libertarians'</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Keeping_It_Real_on_%27neo-Confederate_Libertarians%27" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Keeping It Real on 'neo-Confederate Libertarians'">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"It's not for me to referee the intramural disputes within the libertarian movement. I'm sure they have no desire for me to try. But the neo-Confederates, the Lew Rockwells and that whole crew are fundamentally about white supremacy and nativism. And the Paul clan has been thick as thieves with those folks forever." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Keeping_It_Real_on_%27neo-Confederate_Libertarians%27" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Keeping It Real on 'neo-Confederate Libertarians'">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 9/06/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/libertarianism-covers-racism?paging=off" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Rand Paul's Confederacy Scandal Is Not an Anomaly -- Libertarianism Papers Over Deep Racism in America</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Rand_Paul%27s_Confederacy_Scandal_Is_Not_an_Anomaly_--_Libertarianism_Papers_Over_Deep_Racism_in_America" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Rand Paul's Confederacy Scandal Is Not an Anomaly -- Libertarianism Papers Over Deep Racism in America">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Libertarianism truly is the velvet glove of a nice-sounding “freedom” policy that covers the iron fist of five hundred years of genocide and apartheid in America. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Rand_Paul%27s_Confederacy_Scandal_Is_Not_an_Anomaly_--_Libertarianism_Papers_Over_Deep_Racism_in_America" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Rand Paul's Confederacy Scandal Is Not an Anomaly -- Libertarianism Papers Over Deep Racism in America">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Understanding libertarians as like believers in <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Immanuel_Velikovsky&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Immanuel Velikovsky (page does not exist)">Immanuel Velikovsky</a>'s "Worlds in Collision". <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Libertarian_Velikovskyism" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Libertarian Velikovskyism">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">The ahistorical labor theory of property fails in many ways. Including ignoring the evidence in front of our noses. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_worthless_Lockean_Fable_of_Initial_Acquisition" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The worthless Lockean Fable of Initial Acquisition">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 9/05/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-ford/ayn-rand-and-the-vip-dipe_b_792184.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Ayn Rand and the VIP-DIPers</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Ayn_Rand_and_the_VIP-DIPers" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Ayn Rand and the VIP-DIPers">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Ayn Rand secretly took Social Security and Medicare. "In the end, Miss Rand was a hypocrite but she could never be faulted for failing to act in her own self-interest." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Ayn_Rand_and_the_VIP-DIPers" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Ayn Rand and the VIP-DIPers">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 9/05/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://dailycaller.com/2014/08/25/poll-43-percent-of-libertarians-dont-understand-the-term/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Poll: 43 Percent Of Libertarians Don’t Understand The Term</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Poll:_43_Percent_Of_Libertarians_Don%E2%80%99t_Understand_The_Term" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Poll: 43 Percent Of Libertarians Don’t Understand The Term">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"About 11 percent of Americans self-identify as libertarians and know what the term means" according to a Pew Research Center poll. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Poll:_43_Percent_Of_Libertarians_Don%E2%80%99t_Understand_The_Term" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Poll: 43 Percent Of Libertarians Don’t Understand The Term">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"In some cases, the political views of self-described libertarians differ modestly from those of the general public; in others there are no differences at all [...] None of the seven groups identified by the 2014 political typology closely resembled libertarians, and, in fact, self-described libertarians can be found in all seven." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=In_search_of_libertarians" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="In search of libertarians">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 9/05/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://www.people-press.org/2014/06/26/the-political-typology-beyond-red-vs-blue/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Beyond Red vs. Blue: The Political Typology</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Beyond_Red_vs._Blue:_The_Political_Typology" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Beyond Red vs. Blue: The Political Typology">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">The Pew Research Center statistically identifies seven cohesive political clusters. None of them are libertarian. Includes a 23 question placement quiz. A vastly better methodology than the pseudoscientific <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_Worlds_Smallest_Political_Quiz" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Worlds Smallest Political Quiz">The Worlds Smallest Political Quiz</a>. 179 pages. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Beyond_Red_vs._Blue:_The_Political_Typology" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Beyond Red vs. Blue: The Political Typology">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">The extensive SourceWatch wiki entry on the Koch brothers. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=SourceWatch:_Koch_Brothers" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="SourceWatch: Koch Brothers">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">The Center for Media and Democracy, publisher of ALEC Exposed, brings you this unique wiki resource on the billionaire industrialists and the power and influence of the Koch cadre and Koch cash. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Koch_Exposed" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Koch Exposed">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"Looking back, I try not to beat myself up about my four lost years as a Randroid[...] Despite the fact that everyday reality contradicts the tenets of Objectivism, Randroids hold Rand’s teachings as the supreme distillation of that reality. Cult leaders couldn’t hope for better." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=I_Was_A_Teenage_Randroid" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="I Was A Teenage Randroid">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 9/05/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://unlearningeconomics.wordpress.com/2014/08/23/economists-dissing-economics/#comments" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Economists Dissing Economics</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Economists_Dissing_Economics" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Economists Dissing Economics">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">A list of 20 or so quotes, mostly from well known economists, criticising mainstream economics. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Economists_Dissing_Economics" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Economists Dissing Economics">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 9/05/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://blog.lindau-nobel.org/daniel-mcfadden-understanding-better-how-people-really-make-choices/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Daniel McFadden: Understanding better how people really make choices</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Daniel_McFadden:_Understanding_better_how_people_really_make_choices" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Daniel McFadden: Understanding better how people really make choices">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"Some consumers suffer from “agoraphobia” or a fear of markets according to new research presented by Nobel laureate Daniel McFadden that throws doubt on the classical idea that people are driven by relentless and consistent pursuit of self-interest to maximise their well-being." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Daniel_McFadden:_Understanding_better_how_people_really_make_choices" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Daniel McFadden: Understanding better how people really make choices">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 9/05/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://www.salon.com/2014/08/22/why_burning_man_is_not_an_example_of_a_loosely_regulated_tech_utopia/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Why Burning Man is not an example of a loosely regulated tech utopia</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Why_Burning_Man_is_not_an_example_of_a_loosely_regulated_tech_utopia" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Why Burning Man is not an example of a loosely regulated tech utopia">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"But Burning Man is intensely regulated. It’s got its own police force. Gun control is absolute. Attendance is limited to a set number of people who can afford the not-cheap tickets. The very layout of Black Rock City is a paean to planning and organization. Central control is as much the essence of Burning Man as is hedonism and fire." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Why_Burning_Man_is_not_an_example_of_a_loosely_regulated_tech_utopia" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Why Burning Man is not an example of a loosely regulated tech utopia">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 9/04/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/L-nosociety.htm" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Myth: There's no such thing as society… only individuals and families.</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Myth:_There%27s_no_such_thing_as_society%E2%80%A6_only_individuals_and_families." style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Myth: There's no such thing as society… only individuals and families.">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Perhaps the first important thing to note is that these are semantic games. Society is a "collection of individuals," even formally defined... The belief that humans are autonomous individuals leads to a logical error called the "fallacy of composition." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Myth:_There%27s_no_such_thing_as_society%E2%80%A6_only_individuals_and_families." style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Myth: There's no such thing as society… only individuals and families.">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">This famous <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Margaret_Thatcher&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Margaret Thatcher (page does not exist)">Margaret Thatcher</a> quote is philosophical twaddle. The same principle then applies to government, corporations, religions, etc. It is based on the unscientific and fallacious claim that individuals are the only valid level of analysis, common to the <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Methodological_Individualism_(propaganda)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Methodological Individualism (propaganda)">methodological individualism</a> of <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Austrian_Economics" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Austrian Economics">Austrian Economics</a>. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=There%27s_no_such_thing_as_society%E2%80%A6_only_individuals_and_families." style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="There's no such thing as society… only individuals and families.">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">An international organization founded by <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Friedrich_von_Hayek" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Friedrich von Hayek">Friedrich von Hayek</a> to promote <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Neoliberalism&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Neoliberalism (page does not exist)">neoliberalism</a>. Where the <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Charles_and_David_Koch" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Charles and David Koch">Koch brothers</a> found their kindred spirits. One of the many <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Vast,_Right-Wing_Conspiracy" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Vast, Right-Wing Conspiracy">vast, right-wing Conspiracies</a>. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Mont_Pelerin_Society" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Mont Pelerin Society">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 9/04/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://equitablegrowth.org/2014/09/03/equitable-growth-milton-friedman-david-glasner-real-pseudo-gold-standards-thursday-focus-september-4-2014/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Milton Friedman and David Glasner: Real and Pseudo Gold Standards</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Milton_Friedman_and_David_Glasner:_Real_and_Pseudo_Gold_Standards" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Milton Friedman and David Glasner: Real and Pseudo Gold Standards">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;"><a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=David_Glasner&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="David Glasner (page does not exist)">David Glasner</a> identifies many flaws in <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Milton_Friedman" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Milton Friedman">Milton Friedman</a>'s paper “Real and Pseudo Gold Standards”. <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Brad_DeLong&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Brad DeLong (page does not exist)">Brad DeLong</a> interprets it as a political peacemaking tool, rather than a real academic paper. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Milton_Friedman_and_David_Glasner:_Real_and_Pseudo_Gold_Standards" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Milton Friedman and David Glasner: Real and Pseudo Gold Standards">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Libertarians generally complain about "<a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Fiat_Money" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Fiat Money">fiat money</a>" (paper money), and divide into <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Gold" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Gold">gold</a> or <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Bitcoin" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Bitcoin">bitcoin</a> camps. At this time, gold is simply a commodity: do gold standard libertarians want a government fiat to make it the currency? <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Currency" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Currency">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 9/01/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/005/246eaokp.asp" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Incorrect History</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Incorrect_History" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Incorrect History">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"Soon enough, however, the <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Politically_Incorrect_Guide_to_American_History&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Politically Incorrect Guide to American History (page does not exist)">Politically Incorrect Guide to American History</a> starts to slip from conventional history into a Bizarro world where every state has the right to disregard any piece of federal legislation it doesn't like or even to secede [...] His source? Mainly the writings of the Southern pro-slavery politician John C. Calhoun." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Incorrect_History" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Incorrect History">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 9/01/2014:</span></i> <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=League_of_the_South" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="League of the South">League of the South</a></dt>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">A founding whackaloon of the secessionist <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=League_of_the_South" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="League of the South">League of the South</a> and senior fellow of the <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Ludwig_von_Mises_Institute" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Ludwig von Mises Institute">Ludwig von Mises Institute</a>. He specializes in revisionist history and popularizing <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Austrian_Economics" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Austrian Economics">Austrian Economics</a>. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Thomas_Woods" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Thomas Woods">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">An excellent overview of how Alexander Hamilton's Federalist, dirigiste vision of state-supported capitalism was the basis for the growth of American capitalism. As opposed to Jefferson's large, patrimonial, slave-owning, agrarian elites who exported primary commodities and imported finished manufactured goods from Europe. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Reading_Hamilton_From_the_Left" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Reading Hamilton From the Left">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">An anarchist explanation of how anarcho-capitalism interferes with freedom and how capitalism is created by the state. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Is_%22anarcho%22-capitalism_a_type_of_anarchism%3F" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Is "anarcho"-capitalism a type of anarchism?">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">An anarchist overview of problems of economics, exploitation, distribution, big business, and false claims of capitalist benefits. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=What_are_the_myths_of_capitalist_economics%3F" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="What are the myths of capitalist economics?">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">A collaborative effort to present the basics of anarchism and correct misrepresentations by opponents (such as libertarians.) Updated and expanded versions of some Spunk Press items. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=An_Anarchist_FAQ_Webpage" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="An Anarchist FAQ Webpage">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a class="external text" href="http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/daibhidh-anarcho-hucksters-there-is-nothing-anarchistic-about-capitalism" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Anarcho-Hucksters: There is Nothing Anarchistic about Capitalism</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Anarcho-Hucksters:_There_is_Nothing_Anarchistic_about_Capitalism" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Anarcho-Hucksters: There is Nothing Anarchistic about Capitalism">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">An anarchist explains why anarcho-capitalism is not truly anarchist, and is generally undesirable to most people. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Anarcho-Hucksters:_There_is_Nothing_Anarchistic_about_Capitalism" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Anarcho-Hucksters: There is Nothing Anarchistic about Capitalism">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a class="external text" href="http://www.slate.com/articles/life/a_fine_whine/1998/06/living_in_a_secondbest_world.single.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Living in a Second-Best World</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Living_in_a_Second-Best_World" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Living in a Second-Best World">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">An introduction to why <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Deregulation" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Deregulation">deregulation</a> and competition may not create their intended benefits, due to the <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Theory_Of_The_Second_Best&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Theory Of The Second Best (page does not exist)">Theory Of The Second Best</a>. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Living_in_a_Second-Best_World" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Living in a Second-Best World">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Archimedes_Shrugged:_The_Great_Libertarian_Racket" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Archimedes Shrugged: The Great Libertarian Racket">Archimedes Shrugged: The Great Libertarian Racket</a></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;"><a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Hugh_Akston%27s&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Hugh Akston's (page does not exist)">Hugh Akston's</a> 2001 critical review of the <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Libertarian_Party" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Libertarian Party">Libertarian Party</a>, emphasizing the capture of the party for personal profit by a <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Harry_Browne&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Harry Browne (page does not exist)">Harry Browne</a> clique. Scathing. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Archimedes_Shrugged:_The_Great_Libertarian_Racket" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Archimedes Shrugged: The Great Libertarian Racket">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Also known as the law of identity, is a worthless piece of philosophical drivel that plainly doesn't apply to the real world and seems to be unnecessary in mathematics. Objectivists use it as a <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Shibboleth" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Shibboleth">shibboleth</a>. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=A_Is_A" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="A Is A">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;"><a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Phil_Agre&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Phil Agre (page does not exist)">Phil Agre</a> discusses the rhetorical technology of association and projection used to subvert rationality in political argument. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_New_Jargon" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The New Jargon">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;"><a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Phil_Agre&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Phil Agre (page does not exist)">Phil Agre</a> discusses the common patterns of conservative <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Propaganda&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Propaganda (page does not exist)">propaganda</a> employed in the Florida Recounts. These are very commonly encountered interacting with libertarians, especially projection. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Thoughts_on_the_Florida_Recount" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Thoughts on the Florida Recount">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a class="external text" href="https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/ex-Libertarian/conversations/topics/799?var=1" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/gif; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 16px; text-decoration: none;">The Crisis of Public Reason</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_Crisis_of_Public_Reason" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Crisis of Public Reason">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;"><a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Phil_Agre&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Phil Agre (page does not exist)">Phil Agre</a> provides one of the most compact insights into modern public discourse ever written. And wallops <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Friedrich_von_Hayek" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Friedrich von Hayek">Hayek</a> in the process. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_Crisis_of_Public_Reason" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Crisis of Public Reason">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">An index of books and articles criticizing Austrian Economics. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Critics_of_Austrian_Economics" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Critics of Austrian Economics">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a class="external text" href="http://www.aft.org/issues/schoolchoice/vouchers/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">AFT School Vouchers index</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=AFT_School_Vouchers_index" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="AFT School Vouchers index">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">The American Federation Of Teachers has good summaries of the issues surrounding vouchers. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=AFT_School_Vouchers_index" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="AFT School Vouchers index">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a class="external text" href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2006/nov/16/post650" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Milton Friedman: a study in failure</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Milton_Friedman:_a_study_in_failure" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Milton Friedman: a study in failure">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;"><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Milton_Friedman" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Milton Friedman">Milton Friedman</a>'s most successful influence in government policy was one he regretted: creating the income withholding tax. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Milton_Friedman:_a_study_in_failure" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Milton Friedman: a study in failure">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a class="external text" href="http://dlc.dlib.indiana.edu/dlc/bitstream/handle/10535/577/iascpkeynote.pdf" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 12px; text-decoration: none;">Varieties of Institutional Failure</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Varieties_of_Institutional_Failure" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Varieties of Institutional Failure">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;"><a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=James_Acheson&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="James Acheson (page does not exist)">James Acheson</a> describes failures of resource management by markets, private property, government, and communal management. Libertarian emphasis on the first two only is inappropriate. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Varieties_of_Institutional_Failure" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Varieties of Institutional Failure">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060101005022/http://users.metro2000.net/~stabbott/liberty.htm" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/gif; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 16px; text-decoration: none;">Liberty, License or Anarchy? The Seductive Lie of Libertarianism</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Liberty,_License_or_Anarchy%3F_The_Seductive_Lie_of_Libertarianism" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Liberty, License or Anarchy? The Seductive Lie of Libertarianism">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"I don't want to live in a "libertarian" society any more than I want to live in a society based upon absolute bondage imposed by an all-powerful government. Conservatives must seek - and actively work for -- a rational middle ground in which liberty is ensured within the framework of republican ideals, traditional societal norms and self-restraint." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Liberty,_License_or_Anarchy%3F_The_Seductive_Lie_of_Libertarianism" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Liberty, License or Anarchy? The Seductive Lie of Libertarianism">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a class="external text" href="http://www.brookings.edu/research/opinions/1996/07/21saving-aaron" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">The Myths of Social Security Crisis: Behind the Privatization Push</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_Myths_of_Social_Security_Crisis:_Behind_the_Privatization_Push" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Myths of Social Security Crisis: Behind the Privatization Push">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"Privatization of Social Security would not make the elderly and disabled go away. But it will end a system that requires high earners to help out low earners without forcing low earners to undergo the stigma of welfare." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_Myths_of_Social_Security_Crisis:_Behind_the_Privatization_Push" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Myths of Social Security Crisis: Behind the Privatization Push">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Henry Aaron's 1998 testimony to the US Senate on why Social Security privatization proposals would be bad policy. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Social_Security_Reform:_Henry_Aaron" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Social Security Reform: Henry Aaron">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a class="external text" href="http://blog.danieldavies.com/2007/11/this-is-such-big-heap-of-partisan-right.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">This is such a big heap of partisan right-wing bullshit that there must be a pony in there somewhere!</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=This_is_such_a_big_heap_of_partisan_right-wing_bullshit_that_there_must_be_a_pony_in_there_somewhere!" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="This is such a big heap of partisan right-wing bullshit that there must be a pony in there somewhere!">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;"><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Daniel_Davies" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Daniel Davies">Daniel Davies</a> explains to <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Brad_DeLong&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Brad DeLong (page does not exist)">Brad DeLong</a> that <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Milton_Friedman" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Milton Friedman">Milton Friedman</a> was a political hack (in addition to being an excellent economist.) "The ideological core of Chicago-style libertarianism has two planks. 1. Vote Republican. 2. That's it." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=This_is_such_a_big_heap_of_partisan_right-wing_bullshit_that_there_must_be_a_pony_in_there_somewhere!" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="This is such a big heap of partisan right-wing bullshit that there must be a pony in there somewhere!">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Criminality, failure, self-dealing, misuse of funds, lack of oversight, political corruption, a trend to big business, and the political interference of ALEC have brought about a spate of FBI investigations of charter schools. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_Con_Artistry_of_Charter_Schools" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Con Artistry of Charter Schools">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">One of the major parents of early liberalism. The "mixing of labor to make property" claim comes from here. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Two_Treatises_on_Government" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Two Treatises on Government">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Locke straightforwardly claims that the poor have a right to the surplus property of the rich when they are in need. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=John_Locke_Says_Everything_Belongs_to_Everyone" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="John Locke Says Everything Belongs to Everyone">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">One of <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Brad_DeLong&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Brad DeLong (page does not exist)">Brad DeLong</a>'s attempts to understand Hayek. "My hypothesis is that the explanation is theology: For Hayek, the market could never fail. For Hayek, the market could only be failed. And the only way it could be failed was if its apostles were not pure enough." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Making_Sense_of_Friedrich_A._von_Hayek" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Making Sense of Friedrich A. von Hayek">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"But American inequality has become so extreme that it’s inflicting a lot of economic damage. And this, in turn, implies that redistribution -- that is, taxing the rich and helping the poor -- may well raise, not lower, the economy’s growth rate." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Inequality_Is_a_Drag" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Inequality Is a Drag">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">If you really care about freedom, give people an unconditional income. By <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Philippe_Van_Parijs&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Philippe Van Parijs (page does not exist)">Philippe Van Parijs</a>, the major proponent of <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Basic_Income" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Basic Income">Basic Income</a>. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=A_Basic_Income_for_All" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="A Basic Income for All">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;"><a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Robert_Solow&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Robert Solow (page does not exist)">Robert Solow</a>'s review of "<a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_Great_Persuasion:_Reinventing_Free_Markets_since_the_Depression&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free Markets since the Depression (page does not exist)">The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free Markets since the Depression</a>" By Angus Burgin. His view of the <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Mont_Pelerin_Society" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Mont Pelerin Society">Mont Pelerin Society</a>'s transition from the leadership of <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Friedrich_von_Hayek" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Friedrich von Hayek">Friedrich von Hayek</a> to <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Milton_Friedman" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Milton Friedman">Milton Friedman</a>. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Hayek,_Friedman,_and_the_Illusions_of_Conservative_Economics" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Hayek, Friedman, and the Illusions of Conservative Economics">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"Under the Kaldor-Hicks principle an outcome is efficient if the winners could compensate the losers. They don’t actually have to do it for the new outcome to qualify as efficient. So the winners of newly opened markets don’t have to compensate the workers who have lost jobs." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Efficiency,_inequality,_and_the_costs_of_redistribution" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Efficiency, inequality, and the costs of redistribution">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Is libertarian economics at all realistic? The answer is no. And the reason can be summed up in one word: phosphorus. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Phosphorus_and_Freedom:_The_Libertarian_Fantasy" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Phosphorus and Freedom: The Libertarian Fantasy">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">While libertarians may claim they are opposed to pollution, their solutions (self-regulation, torts, etc.) are ineffective in the real world. Regulation is necessary to preserve the environmental commons. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Pollution" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Pollution">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Notorious commie group Standard & Poor’s says inequality hurting economic growth. "The challenge now is to find a path toward more sustainable growth, an essential part of which, in our view, is pulling more Americans out of poverty and bolstering the purchasing power of the middle class." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=How_Increasing_Income_Inequality_Is_Dampening_U.S._Economic_Growth,_And_Possible_Ways_To_Change_The_Tide" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="How Increasing Income Inequality Is Dampening U.S. Economic Growth, And Possible Ways To Change The Tide">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"Young voters are not libertarian, nor even trending libertarian. Neither, for that matter, are older voters. The "libertarian moment" is not an event in American culture. It's a phase in internal Republican Party factionalism." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Why_the_%27Libertarian_Moment%27_Isn%27t_Really_Happening" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Why the 'Libertarian Moment' Isn't Really Happening">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a class="external text" href="http://www.demos.org/blog/8/11/14/it-matters-how-rich-rich-are" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">It Matters How Rich the Rich Are</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=It_Matters_How_Rich_the_Rich_Are" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="It Matters How Rich the Rich Are">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"[...] the poor can be made not-poor by reducing the wealth/income of the rich in order to increase the wealth/income of the poor. In that sense, then, the richness of the rich is a cause of the poorness of the poor." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=It_Matters_How_Rich_the_Rich_Are" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="It Matters How Rich the Rich Are">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a class="external text" href="http://crooksandliars.com/2014/08/alec-free-markets-myth-debunked-alec-wont" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">ALEC Free Markets Myth Debunked, But ALEC Won't Comment</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=ALEC_Free_Markets_Myth_Debunked,_But_ALEC_Won%27t_Comment" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="ALEC Free Markets Myth Debunked, But ALEC Won't Comment">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Asked on camera to explain how ALEC's work against clean energy incentives while ignoring fossil fuel subsidies fits its "free markets" mission, ALEC had "no comment" for Greenpeace. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=ALEC_Free_Markets_Myth_Debunked,_But_ALEC_Won%27t_Comment" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="ALEC Free Markets Myth Debunked, But ALEC Won't Comment">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a class="external text" href="http://equitablegrowth.org/2014/08/12/yet-another-note-mont-pelerin-thinking-bob-solows-view/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Yet Another Note on Mont Pelerin: Thinking Some More About Bob Solow’s View…</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Yet_Another_Note_on_Mont_Pelerin:_Thinking_Some_More_About_Bob_Solow%E2%80%99s_View%E2%80%A6" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Yet Another Note on Mont Pelerin: Thinking Some More About Bob Solow’s View…">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;"><a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Brad_DeLong&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Brad DeLong (page does not exist)">Brad DeLong</a> sees a good Hayek, a bad Hayek, and a political economy Hayek. The three are inconsistent. He (citing Solow) compares their faults to those of Milton Friedman. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Yet_Another_Note_on_Mont_Pelerin:_Thinking_Some_More_About_Bob_Solow%E2%80%99s_View%E2%80%A6" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Yet Another Note on Mont Pelerin: Thinking Some More About Bob Solow’s View…">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"A largely outlawed scourge to the developed world, it is still going strong in the developing one, and killing tens of thousands of people each year." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Asbestos_Pushed_in_Asia_as_Product_for_the_Poor" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Asbestos Pushed in Asia as Product for the Poor">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">The asbestos industry suppressed information about the hazards of asbestos for decades, and has subsequently been facing enormous lawsuits over many thousands of deaths. All the while fighting regulation worldwide. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_Asbestos_Industry" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Asbestos Industry">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a class="external text" href="https://www.princeton.edu/~mgilens/Gilens%20homepage%20materials/Gilens%20and%20Page/Gilens%20and%20Page%202014-Testing%20Theories%203-7-14.pdf" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 12px; text-decoration: none;">Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Testing_Theories_of_American_Politics:_Elites,_Interest_Groups,_and_Average_Citizens" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">A hugely important study showing that: "Multivariate analysis indicates that economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Testing_Theories_of_American_Politics:_Elites,_Interest_Groups,_and_Average_Citizens" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"A new political science study that's gone viral finds that majority-rule democracy exists only in theory in the United States -- not so much in practice." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Scholar_Behind_Viral_%27Oligarchy%27_Study_Tells_You_What_It_Means" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Scholar Behind Viral 'Oligarchy' Study Tells You What It Means">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">On poverty and right wing reactions: "[...] the way people tend to react to a rigged game -- discouragement or selective blindness --are pretty common sense, yet are vociferously denied nonetheless by significant segments in the United States." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Lucky_Duckies_and_Fortunate_Sons" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Lucky Duckies and Fortunate Sons">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"All in all, the three axioms that form the basis of neoclassical economics cannot be taken seriously." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_Three_Axioms_at_the_Heart_of_Neoclassical_Economics" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Three Axioms at the Heart of Neoclassical Economics">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a class="external text" href="http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2014/08/no-it-isnt-only-libertarians-who-care.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">No, it isn't only libertarians who care about civil liberties</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=No,_it_isn%27t_only_libertarians_who_care_about_civil_liberties" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="No, it isn't only libertarians who care about civil liberties">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"The fact is that civil liberties are rarely a priority in either political party. The libertarians in America tend to gather in the GOP while the civil libertarians like me tend to vote Democratic. We're a minority either way, but the civil libertarian liberals outnumber the libertarians substantially. " <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=No,_it_isn%27t_only_libertarians_who_care_about_civil_liberties" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="No, it isn't only libertarians who care about civil liberties">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"Of course, right-libertarians tell us that they defend property rights because they believe in freedom. Now we see that they’re simply defining freedom as the defense of the property rights system they want to see." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_Basic_Income_Guarantee_and_Tautological_Libertarianism" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Basic Income Guarantee and Tautological Libertarianism">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">A reversal of one point of "<a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Seeing_like_a_State:_How_Certain_Schemes_to_Improve_the_Human_Condition_Have_Failed&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (page does not exist)">Seeing like a State</a>": "Rather than fleeing from the state and resisting it, ordinary people are demanding the expansion of its authority in order to attain freedom from arbitrary and coercive local elites." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Do_People_Really_Dislike_the_State_So_Much%3F" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Do People Really Dislike the State So Much?">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">It might be your money if you lived under other institutions, rather than those of a taxing nation. But you don't. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=It_isn%E2%80%99t_your_money" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="It isn’t your money">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;"><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Paul_Krugman" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Paul Krugman">Paul Krugman</a>: "If you’re a modern, wealthy nation, however, war — even easy, victorious war — doesn’t pay. And this has been true for a long time." Except some profit in the military-industrial complex. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Why_We_Fight_Wars" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Why We Fight Wars">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Libertarians like to pretend that only they oppose war and that they oppose all war. Almost all people oppose war, and everybody has a point at which they will engage in war, even if only for defense. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=War_Is_Bad" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="War Is Bad">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"As long as leaving America’s most vulnerable unprotected remains a core piece of libertarianism, it is unlikely that the libertarian movement will find many allies in communities of color."<a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Why_Blacks_Aren%27t_Libertarians" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Why Blacks Aren't Libertarians">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a class="external text" href="http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/john-s--katzman-proposes-a-new-way-to-reconcile-the-profit-motive-with-academic-success" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">The Underachieving Education Business</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_Underachieving_Education_Business" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Underachieving Education Business">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Cries for market competition to improve education are false promises. "In the United States, for-profit universities have a six-year graduation rate of 22%, far below the 60% achieved by not-for-profit institutions." An ineffective self-regulation proposal is made. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_Underachieving_Education_Business" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Underachieving Education Business">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"In ancient times, this was a common way for impoverished people to provide subsistence for themselves or their family and provision was made for this in law." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Voluntary_slavery_(Wikipedia)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Voluntary slavery (Wikipedia)">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a class="external text" href="http://mattbruenig.com/2014/08/18/some-problems-with-this-traditionalist-stuff/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Some problems with this traditionalist stuff</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Some_problems_with_this_traditionalist_stuff" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Some problems with this traditionalist stuff">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"The traditionalist has a formula. They write on a three-by-five card “defer to the status quo norms and traditions.” Then they also secretly scribble on the back “except when doing so conflicts with laissez-faire capitalism.” But we can leave that last part aside." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Some_problems_with_this_traditionalist_stuff" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Some problems with this traditionalist stuff">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a class="external text" href="http://robertreich.org/post/95109113190" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">The Disease of American Democracy</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_Disease_of_American_Democracy" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Disease of American Democracy">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">An overview of why Americans have no influence over their government compared to the rich and corporations. "We have to establish a new countervailing power." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_Disease_of_American_Democracy" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Disease of American Democracy">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a class="external text" href="http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/141875/lauren-carasik/bad-role-models" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Bad Role Models: The Embattled Arrival of Honduras' Model Cities</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Bad_Role_Models:_The_Embattled_Arrival_of_Honduras%27_Model_Cities" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Bad Role Models: The Embattled Arrival of Honduras' Model Cities">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"[...] ZEDEs seem likely to benefit only Honduras’ existing economic and political elites and foreign investors. The laws allowing ZEDEs have been designed to give their investors maximal legal and financial protection, leaving residents with only minimal legal recourse and democratic rights." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Bad_Role_Models:_The_Embattled_Arrival_of_Honduras%27_Model_Cities" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Bad Role Models: The Embattled Arrival of Honduras' Model Cities">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a class="external text" href="http://www.thenation.com/article/159748/reclaiming-politics-freedom" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Reclaiming the Politics of Freedom</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Reclaiming_the_Politics_of_Freedom" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Reclaiming the Politics of Freedom">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"[The politics of freedom] views the state the way the abolitionist, the trade unionist, the civil rights activist and the feminist do: as an instrument for disrupting the private life of power. The state, in other words, is the right hand to the left hand of social movement." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Reclaiming_the_Politics_of_Freedom" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Reclaiming the Politics of Freedom">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a class="external text" href="http://www.breitbartunmasked.com/2014/08/21/say-what-israel-just-outlawed-water-fluoridation/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Say What? Israel Just Outlawed Water Fluoridation</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Say_What%3F_Israel_Just_Outlawed_Water_Fluoridation" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Say What? Israel Just Outlawed Water Fluoridation">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"The terrifying logic follows that this disturbing pattern (like many libertarian ideologies) trumps all logic and sound medical advice; the way things are going, mandatory vaccination could be next on the cutting block." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Say_What%3F_Israel_Just_Outlawed_Water_Fluoridation" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Say What? Israel Just Outlawed Water Fluoridation">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a class="external text" href="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/08/america-is-not-turning-libertarian.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">No, America Is Not Turning Libertarian</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=No,_America_Is_Not_Turning_Libertarian" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="No, America Is Not Turning Libertarian">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"Advocacy organizations routinely sponsor polls that show the public supportive of their own position. Reason is the only magazine I know of that uses this tactic..." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=No,_America_Is_Not_Turning_Libertarian" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="No, America Is Not Turning Libertarian">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Libertarianism_is_growing!" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Libertarianism is growing!">Libertarianism is growing!</a></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Nope. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_Kochtopus:_Home-Grown_Subversion_Of_The_United_States" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Kochtopus: Home-Grown Subversion Of The United States">Koch-sponsored plutocratic control of government, media and other institutions</a> is increasing, but that is not libertarianism. The number of people with libertarian leanings has remained constant for decades, and the Libertarian Party has long been in decline. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Libertarianism_is_growing!" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Libertarianism is growing!">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"The BWF may or may not be useful for demonstrating a certain point, but it is not a model of the economy and it is not always and everywhere applicable to economic problems."</dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 8/07/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://socialdemocracy21stcentury.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">A Day in Rothbardian Anarcho-Capitalist Paradise</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=A_Day_in_Rothbardian_Anarcho-Capitalist_Paradise" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="A Day in Rothbardian Anarcho-Capitalist Paradise">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Rampant inequality, poverty, disease, crime and violence. "Libertarians have a major problem: there are very few people indeed who would want such a society or think that it would be a good place to live in."<a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=A_Day_in_Rothbardian_Anarcho-Capitalist_Paradise" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="A Day in Rothbardian Anarcho-Capitalist Paradise">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 8/06/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-07-22/for-ceos-correlation-between-pay-and-stock-performance-is-pretty-random" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">The Pay-for-Performance Myth</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_Pay-for-Performance_Myth" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Pay-for-Performance Myth">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"An analysis of compensation data publicly released by Equilar shows little correlation between CEO pay and company performance. Equilar ranked the salaries of 200 highly paid CEOs. When compared to metrics such as revenue, profitability, and stock return, the scattering of data looks pretty random, as though performance doesn’t matter." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_Pay-for-Performance_Myth" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Pay-for-Performance Myth">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 8/06/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://pando.com/2014/07/28/as-outrage-grows-reason-editor-rejects-proof-denies-that-magazine-denied-the-holocaust/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">As outrage grows, Reason editor rejects proof, denies that magazine denied the holocaust</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=As_outrage_grows,_Reason_editor_rejects_proof,_denies_that_magazine_denied_the_holocaust" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="As outrage grows, Reason editor rejects proof, denies that magazine denied the holocaust">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;"><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Reason_Magazine" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Reason Magazine">Reason Magazine</a>'s leadership denies its own plain, printed evidence. <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Propaganda&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Propaganda (page does not exist)">Propaganda</a> means never having to admit your were wrong. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=As_outrage_grows,_Reason_editor_rejects_proof,_denies_that_magazine_denied_the_holocaust" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="As outrage grows, Reason editor rejects proof, denies that magazine denied the holocaust">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 8/06/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://thedeadauthorspodcast.libsyn.com/chapter-20-ayn-rand-featuring-john-hodgman" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">An Evening of H.G. Wells listening to Ayn Rand</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=An_Evening_of_H.G._Wells_listening_to_Ayn_Rand" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="An Evening of H.G. Wells listening to Ayn Rand">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">A Dead Authors podcast where H.G. Wells (Paul F. Tompkins) welcomes the rather chatty Ayn Rand (John Hodgman). <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=An_Evening_of_H.G._Wells_listening_to_Ayn_Rand" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="An Evening of H.G. Wells listening to Ayn Rand">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 8/06/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://johnquiggin.com/2014/07/28/austrian-economics-and-flat-earth-geography/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Austrian economics and Flat Earth geography</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Austrian_economics_and_Flat_Earth_geography" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Austrian economics and Flat Earth geography">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"... the point that Austrian economics is genuinely related to Flat Earth geography (as opposed to the use of this term as simple abuse) seems to be new." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Austrian_economics_and_Flat_Earth_geography" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Austrian economics and Flat Earth geography">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 8/06/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/07/27/opinion/sunday/high-time-marijuana-legalization.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Repeal Prohibition, Again</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Repeal_Prohibition,_Again" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Repeal Prohibition, Again">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">The editorial board of the <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=New_York_Times&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="New York Times (page does not exist)">New York Times</a> says: "The federal government should repeal the ban on marijuana." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Repeal_Prohibition,_Again" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Repeal Prohibition, Again">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 8/06/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://socialdemocracy21stcentury.blogspot.com/2014/07/how-noah-smith-should-have-criticised_9471.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">How Noah Smith Should Have Criticised Austrian Economics</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=How_Noah_Smith_Should_Have_Criticised_Austrian_Economics" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="How Noah Smith Should Have Criticised Austrian Economics">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;"><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Noah_Smith" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Noah Smith">Noah Smith</a> and <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Robert_Murphy&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Robert Murphy (page does not exist)">Robert Murphy</a> had an argument. An expert critical of <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Austrian_Economics" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Austrian Economics">Austrian Economics</a> identifies 6 major problems he thinks Noah should have attacked instead. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=How_Noah_Smith_Should_Have_Criticised_Austrian_Economics" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="How Noah Smith Should Have Criticised Austrian Economics">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 8/06/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-sachs/paul-ryan-american-values_b_991817.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Paul Ryan, American Values and Corporatocracy</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Paul_Ryan,_American_Values_and_Corporatocracy" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Paul Ryan, American Values and Corporatocracy">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"Ryan calls the mixed economy anti-American. History, however, shows otherwise... My views in <i><a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_Price_of_Civilization&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="The Price of Civilization (page does not exist)">The Price of Civilization</a></i> run to the very idea of America: a democracy of the people, by the people, and for the people, not a government of the corporations, by the corporations and for the corporations." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Paul_Ryan,_American_Values_and_Corporatocracy" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Paul Ryan, American Values and Corporatocracy">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 8/06/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://works.bepress.com/context/widerquist/article/1048/type/native/viewcontent" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">The Big Casino</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_Big_Casino" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Big Casino">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">This paper uses an analogy to illustrate two things: (1) the economy is and will always be a casino, and (2) in existing societies and most libertarian, liberal, and socialist visions of society individuals are effectively forced to participate in the casino economy. It argues justice requires that individuals must be free from forced participation in such an economy and that the best way to free people from forced participation is the provision of a Basic Income Guarantee. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_Big_Casino" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Big Casino">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 8/06/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://socialdemocracy21stcentury.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-sobering-truth-about-business.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">The Sobering Truth about Business Failure Rates</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_Sobering_Truth_about_Business_Failure_Rates" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Sobering Truth about Business Failure Rates">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"If one looks at these failure rates, one can only conclude that decentralised, private decision-making on production and investment mostly turns out to be wrong and a failure; it is not some incredibly efficient system at all, for a 50% failure rate after 5 years for new businesses means massive wasted resources and lost opportunity costs." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_Sobering_Truth_about_Business_Failure_Rates" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Sobering Truth about Business Failure Rates">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 8/06/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/08/capitalism-and-slavery-an-interview-with-greg-grandin/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/gif; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 16px; text-decoration: none;">Capitalism and Slavery: An Interview with Greg Grandin</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Capitalism_and_Slavery:_An_Interview_with_Greg_Grandin" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Capitalism and Slavery: An Interview with Greg Grandin">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"[...] 1804-1805, the highpoint of what Spanish merchants called “free trade in blacks” — the privatization and deregulation of mercantile slavery, which, decades before the expansion of chattel bondage in the US south, kicked off the Atlantic World’s capitalist market revolution [....]" <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Capitalism_and_Slavery:_An_Interview_with_Greg_Grandin" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Capitalism and Slavery: An Interview with Greg Grandin">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 8/06/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://socialdemocracy21stcentury.blogspot.com/2014/08/hutchison-on-socialist-calculation.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Hutchison on the Socialist Calculation Debate</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Hutchison_on_the_Socialist_Calculation_Debate" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Hutchison on the Socialist Calculation Debate">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"It is just too facile to demonstrate that socialist planners may not be able to improve on the allocation of competitive markets if everybody in those markets -- more or less by definition -- is equipped with full or perfect knowledge." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Hutchison_on_the_Socialist_Calculation_Debate" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Hutchison on the Socialist Calculation Debate">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 8/06/2014:</span></i> <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Capitalism_Whack-A-Mole" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Capitalism Whack-A-Mole">Capitalism Whack-A-Mole</a></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"There is no general framework of morality or justice that supports laissez-faire capitalism. This is a problem of course for those who wish to argue on behalf of it. When you talk to such people, a familiar argumentative pattern emerges that I have come to call Capitalism Whack-A-Mole." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Capitalism_Whack-A-Mole" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Capitalism Whack-A-Mole">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 8/06/2014:</span></i> <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Tragedy_Of_The_Commons" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Tragedy Of The Commons">Tragedy Of The Commons</a></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">There is only a tragedy of an UNREGULATED commons. Regulation is an obvious workable solution. Libertarians frequently claim that the problem can be solved by privatization with clear property title. But removing property from the commons has its own problems; moral, philosophical and economic. See also the <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Tragedy_Of_The_Anticommons&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Tragedy Of The Anticommons (page does not exist)">Tragedy Of The Anticommons</a>. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Tragedy_Of_The_Commons" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Tragedy Of The Commons">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 8/06/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://www.newyorker.com/talk/financial/2008/08/11/080811ta_talk_surowiecki" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">The Permission Problem</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_Permission_Problem" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Permission Problem">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">A good explanation of the <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Tragedy_Of_The_Anticommons&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Tragedy Of The Anticommons (page does not exist)">Tragedy Of The Anticommons</a> market failure based on the book "<a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_Gridlock_Economy:_How_Too_Much_Ownership_Wrecks_Markets,_Stops_Innovation,_and_Costs_Lives" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Gridlock Economy: How Too Much Ownership Wrecks Markets, Stops Innovation, and Costs Lives">The Gridlock Economy: How Too Much Ownership Wrecks Markets, Stops Innovation, and Costs Lives</a>" by <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Michael_Heller&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Michael Heller (page does not exist)">Michael Heller</a>. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_Permission_Problem" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Permission Problem">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 8/06/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holdout_(architecture)" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Holdout (architecture) from Wikipedia</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Holdout_(architecture)_from_Wikipedia" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Holdout (architecture) from Wikipedia">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">A holdout is a piece of property that did not become part of a larger real estate development because the owner either refused to sell or wanted too much. There are many examples of hold-outs in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, China, Japan, and other countries. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Holdout_(architecture)_from_Wikipedia" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Holdout (architecture) from Wikipedia">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Construction projects are often halted or expensively modified because some owners refuse to sell property needed for a project. Called "nail houses" in China. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Holdouts" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Holdouts">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 8/06/2014:</span></i> <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Eminent_Domain" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Eminent Domain">Eminent Domain</a></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Libertarians hate this limitation on property rights, ranting incessantly. And when used corruptly, it is detestable to all. But it does have an important role to play in overcoming a common market failure called the<a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Tragedy_Of_The_Anticommons&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Tragedy Of The Anticommons (page does not exist)">Tragedy Of The Anticommons</a>. The key concept is that property ownership is not an unmitigated good, and,</dd></dl>
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worse yet, it can lead to economic gridlock and underutilization of resources. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Eminent_Domain" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Eminent Domain">[more...]</a></div>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 8/06/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://www.vox.com/2014/7/30/5948907/basic-income-poverty-inflation-details-paternalism" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Giving everyone a basic income would work for the same reasons Social Security does</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Giving_everyone_a_basic_income_would_work_for_the_same_reasons_Social_Security_does" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Giving everyone a basic income would work for the same reasons Social Security does">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">An outline of the costs and workings of a basic income plan. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Giving_everyone_a_basic_income_would_work_for_the_same_reasons_Social_Security_does" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Giving everyone a basic income would work for the same reasons Social Security does">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">During much of the 20th century, a great fear was communist subversion of the United States, and indeed there were spies and political movements that proved to be directed by the Soviet Union. During the last 40 years, a much larger and more thorough subversion has taken place to implant the anti-democratic political views of the Koch brothers in all parts of government and society. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_Kochtopus:_Home-Grown_Subversion_Of_The_United_States" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Kochtopus: Home-Grown Subversion Of The United States">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">A <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Charles_and_David_Koch" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Charles and David Koch">Koch-funded</a> <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Propaganda_Mills" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Propaganda Mills">propaganda mill</a> that produces prolefeed for true believers. It would be better titled "Confirmation Bias". <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Reason_Magazine" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Reason Magazine">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a class="external text" href="http://pando.com/2014/07/24/as-reasons-editor-defends-its-racist-history-heres-a-copy-of-its-holocaust-denial-special-issue/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">As Reason’s editor defends its racist history, here’s a copy of its holocaust denial “special issue”</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=As_Reason%E2%80%99s_editor_defends_its_racist_history,_here%E2%80%99s_a_copy_of_its_holocaust_denial_%E2%80%9Cspecial_issue%E2%80%9D" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="As Reason’s editor defends its racist history, here’s a copy of its holocaust denial “special issue”">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">The January and February 1976 issues featured a who's who of American holocaust deniers and "revisionist history" by a mix of conspiracy theorists. A number of them are still on the <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Kochtopus" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Kochtopus">Kochtopus</a> payroll. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=As_Reason%E2%80%99s_editor_defends_its_racist_history,_here%E2%80%99s_a_copy_of_its_holocaust_denial_%E2%80%9Cspecial_issue%E2%80%9D" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="As Reason’s editor defends its racist history, here’s a copy of its holocaust denial “special issue”">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a class="external text" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/16/koch-brothers-education_n_5587577.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Koch High: How The Koch Brothers Are Buying Their Way Into The Minds Of Public School Students</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Koch_High:_How_The_Koch_Brothers_Are_Buying_Their_Way_Into_The_Minds_Of_Public_School_Students" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Koch High: How The Koch Brothers Are Buying Their Way Into The Minds Of Public School Students">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"But with Youth Entrepreneurs, the Koch pipeline for creating a new generation of liberty advancers now starts early: A student can take the YE course in high school, participate in the YE Academy to earn scholarship money and then use that money to pay for a degree from a Koch-funded university." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Koch_High:_How_The_Koch_Brothers_Are_Buying_Their_Way_Into_The_Minds_Of_Public_School_Students" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Koch High: How The Koch Brothers Are Buying Their Way Into The Minds Of Public School Students">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a class="external text" href="http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2014/07/unions-productivity-.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Unions and Productivity</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Unions_and_Productivity" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Unions and Productivity">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Cross-country studies show unions increase productivity. They are a more flexible alternative to regulation. They are also associated with lower CEO compensation. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Unions_and_Productivity" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Unions and Productivity">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a class="external text" href="http://www.bravenewfilms.org/koch_brothers_exposed_2014_edition" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Koch Brothers Exposed: 2014 Edition</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Koch_Brothers_Exposed:_2014_Edition" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Koch Brothers Exposed: 2014 Edition">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"We've reissued Koch Brothers Exposed: 2014 Edition to shine a light on the Koch Brothers. We’re now delving even deeper into where their money is going, who their money is hurting, and how much they are making during this whole process leading up to the 2014 Elections." (An hour-long film.) <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Koch_Brothers_Exposed:_2014_Edition" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Koch Brothers Exposed: 2014 Edition">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Anarcho-capitalism exists; property ownership just happens to be dominated by about 200 firms called “governments.” Libertarians have erred in calculating who owns property. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=A_Dilemma_for_Libertarianism" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="A Dilemma for Libertarianism">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a class="external text" href="http://cid.bcrp.gob.pe/biblio/Papers/NBER/2010/enero/w15699.pdf" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 12px; text-decoration: none;">The Elasticity of Demand With Respect to Product Failures; or Why the Market for Quack Medicines Flourished for More Than 150 Years</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_Elasticity_of_Demand_With_Respect_to_Product_Failures;_or_Why_the_Market_for_Quack_Medicines_Flourished_for_More_Than_150_Years" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Elasticity of Demand With Respect to Product Failures; or Why the Market for Quack Medicines Flourished for More Than 150 Years">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Markets did not punish the quack medicine industry due to unusually low elasticity of demand with respect to product failure and bounded rationality. The conclusion mentions that recent resaerch shows the FDA increased consumer welfare. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_Elasticity_of_Demand_With_Respect_to_Product_Failures;_or_Why_the_Market_for_Quack_Medicines_Flourished_for_More_Than_150_Years" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Elasticity of Demand With Respect to Product Failures; or Why the Market for Quack Medicines Flourished for More Than 150 Years">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a class="external text" href="http://billmoyers.com/2014/07/04/july-4th-note-to-tea-partiers-your-politics-would-baffle-the-founding-fathers/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">July 4th Note to Tea Partiers: Your Politics Would Baffle the Founding Fathers</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=July_4th_Note_to_Tea_Partiers:_Your_Politics_Would_Baffle_the_Founding_Fathers" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="July 4th Note to Tea Partiers: Your Politics Would Baffle the Founding Fathers">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">“What would the founders do?” is, from the point of view of historical analysis, an ill-considered and unanswerable question, and pointless, too. Problems with constitutional originalism. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=July_4th_Note_to_Tea_Partiers:_Your_Politics_Would_Baffle_the_Founding_Fathers" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="July 4th Note to Tea Partiers: Your Politics Would Baffle the Founding Fathers">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a class="external text" href="http://www.salon.com/2014/06/29/free_markets_killed_capitalism_ayn_rand_ronald_reagan_wal_mart_amazon_and_the_1_percents_sick_triumph_over_us_all/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Free markets killed capitalism: Ayn Rand, Ronald Reagan, Wal-Mart, Amazon and the 1 percent’s sick triumph over us all</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Free_markets_killed_capitalism:_Ayn_Rand,_Ronald_Reagan,_Wal-Mart,_Amazon_and_the_1_percent%E2%80%99s_sick_triumph_over_us_all" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Free markets killed capitalism: Ayn Rand, Ronald Reagan, Wal-Mart, Amazon and the 1 percent’s sick triumph over us all">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"The American economy is more concentrated today than it’s been in more than a century, since the days of the plutocrats. Pretty much every sector of the economy is dominated by a few Goliaths, sometimes a single dominant corporation. " <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Free_markets_killed_capitalism:_Ayn_Rand,_Ronald_Reagan,_Wal-Mart,_Amazon_and_the_1_percent%E2%80%99s_sick_triumph_over_us_all" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Free markets killed capitalism: Ayn Rand, Ronald Reagan, Wal-Mart, Amazon and the 1 percent’s sick triumph over us all">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"The Austrian worldview is like a brain worm that has infected large swathes of our financial industry, commentariat and general public [...] The years 2011 and 2012 were to Austrians like sunrise is to a vampire. It was simply amazing to sit there and watch Austrians writhe and contort under the pure, burning light of extant reality." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Austrian_Economists,_9/11_Truthers_and_Brain_Worms" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Austrian Economists, 9/11 Truthers and Brain Worms">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"The phrase "employer-provided welfare state" might seem to be a contradiction, but it's an apt description of what we have in this country. Employers don't just pay out cash incomes to workers, but are instead tasked -- whether by law or not -- with running complex social insurance schemes among their workforce." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Take_Away_the_Entire_Welfare_State_From_Employers" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Take Away the Entire Welfare State From Employers">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"Addicts may not respond to price incentives as we would expect. This problem, combined with the fear of disproportionally taxing the poor, makes it difficult to address the consumption externalities caused by addictive substances. This column reviews recent literature showing the efficacy of minimum pricing on alcohol, and the curious result that alcohol consumption now seems to be increasing in household income."<a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Minimum_prices_for_alcohol_should_work" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Minimum prices for alcohol should work">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a class="external text" href="http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/06/23/3451935/big-tobacco-hooked-cigarettes/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">How Big Tobacco Has Made Cigarettes So Much Deadlier Than They Used To Be</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=How_Big_Tobacco_Has_Made_Cigarettes_So_Much_Deadlier_Than_They_Used_To_Be" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="How Big Tobacco Has Made Cigarettes So Much Deadlier Than They Used To Be">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Cigarette companies still use every trick they can to make cigarettes even more addictive and more attractive to children as well as less safe. "Tobacco is still the greatest public health challenge of our time."<a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=How_Big_Tobacco_Has_Made_Cigarettes_So_Much_Deadlier_Than_They_Used_To_Be" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="How Big Tobacco Has Made Cigarettes So Much Deadlier Than They Used To Be">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">A failed Reagan-era crank theory used to cut taxes and services. It promised a boom in productivity and never produced one. Instead, it created an ever-increasing concentration of wealth in the hands of the rich.<a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Supply-Side_Economics" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Supply-Side Economics">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;"><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Paul_Krugman" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Paul Krugman">Paul Krugman</a> takes the <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Kochtopus" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Kochtopus">Kochtopus</a>' <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=ALEC" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="ALEC">ALEC</a> to task for promoting long-discredited <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Supply-Side_Economics" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Supply-Side Economics">Supply-Side Economics</a> policies. "And most of ALEC’s efforts are directed, not surprisingly, at privatization, deregulation, and tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Charlatans,_Cranks_and_Kansas" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Charlatans, Cranks and Kansas">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">That famous socialist Adam Smith says: "If masters would always listen to the dictates of reason and humanity, they have frequently occasion rather to moderate, than to animate the application of many of their workmen." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Adam_Smith_on_how_to_make_the_working_class_happier_and_more_productive:_pay_them_more" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Adam Smith on how to make the working class happier and more productive: pay them more">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"In case after case, theories and approaches favored by a handful of very wealthy individuals received preferential treatment in the education debate. You cannot call that a democratic process." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Vergara_vs._California:_Are_the_top_0.1%25_buying_their_version_of_education_reform%3F" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Vergara vs. California: Are the top 0.1% buying their version of education reform?">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"Ensuring that those at the top pay their fair share of taxes -- ending the special privileges of speculators, corporations and the rich -- is both pragmatic and fair. We are not embracing a politics of envy if we reverse a politics of greed. Inequality is not just about the top marginal tax rate but also about our children’s access to food and the right to justice for all. If we spent more on education, health and infrastructure, we would strengthen our economy, now and in the future." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Inequality_Is_Not_Inevitable" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Inequality Is Not Inevitable">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a class="external text" href="http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2014/06/27/molyneux-makes-no-sense/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Molyneux makes no sense</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Molyneux_makes_no_sense" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Molyneux makes no sense">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"He’s a fanatical and extreme Libertarian who advocates for statelessness, Bitcoin, and other weird, impractical, libertarian schemes. He’s also a misogynist idiot." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Molyneux_makes_no_sense" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Molyneux makes no sense">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">The research is now undeniable. Inequality in America begins at birth, or, for those born to women who are ill during pregnancy or do not have adequate prenatal care, even before [...] Armed with the unambiguous findings of twenty-first-century neuroscience, we can no longer just tell children raised poor to study harder and find jobs as they grow up. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Inequality_Begins_at_Birth" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Inequality Begins at Birth">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">The enemies of Obamacare made at least six distinct predictions about how Obamacare would fail -- every one of which turned out to be wrong. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_Incompetence_Dogma" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Incompetence Dogma">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">A common assumption of libertarian ideologues, which is easily belied by experience. Governments do much better than markets for a number of goods. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Government_Cannot_Do_Anything_Well" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Government Cannot Do Anything Well">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;"><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Friedrich_von_Hayek" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Friedrich von Hayek">Hayek</a>’s critique of democratic government has proven to be the most monstrous blood libel of the post-World War II era -- falsely declaring that democratic government must end in tyranny and the mass murder of its own people." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Why_the_Worst_Get_on_Top_--_in_Economics_and_as_CEOs" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Why the Worst Get on Top -- in Economics and as CEOs">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"I’d like to use a thought experiment to show how a world of solely private property is little different from our current world and how private property contains many of the arbitrary coercion that libertarians so passionately denounce in states." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=A_Thought_About_Property_Without_The_State" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="A Thought About Property Without The State">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"To those of you who consider yourselves libertarians, I say this: You don’t have to reject your current beliefs. But you must expand them. Libertarianism’s narrow views do a disservice to yourself and to the world." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Why_I_left_libertarianism:_An_ethical_critique_of_a_limited_ideology" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Why I left libertarianism: An ethical critique of a limited ideology">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"The libertarian tradition fundamentally misunderstands human life. No wonder its adherents get politics so wrong. [...] libertarianism cannot provide a coherent account of our capacity for choice. It presents freedom as its central concern, conceptually and normatively, but is indifferent to the conditions that nurture and sustain it." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Libertarians%E2%80%99_reality_problem:_How_an_estrangement_from_history_yields_abject_failure" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Libertarians’ reality problem: How an estrangement from history yields abject failure">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Elites didn't get rich off of some “free market.” Here's why libertarians should back radical wealth redistribution. Socks <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Rand_Paul" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Rand Paul">Rand Paul</a> and <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Murray_Rothbard" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Murray Rothbard">Murray Rothbard</a> for ignoring the coercive origins of capitalist wealth. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Libertarians_are_very_confused_about_capitalism" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Libertarians are very confused about capitalism">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"Stossel’s a ridiculous local-news “consumer watchdog” reporter who discovered Milton Friedman. He’s the worst of simple-minded sensationalist television news masquerading as a maverick because he’s “politically incorrect” (a term that when self-applied invariably means “an asshole”)." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_Salon_Hack_List_17:_John_Stossel" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Salon Hack List 17: John Stossel">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"The Kochs invest in higher education by donating money with ideological strings attached." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Right-wing_billionaires_purchasing_own_professors" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Right-wing billionaires purchasing own professors">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"Men who make their living emitting carbon pay thinkers to argue against government regulation of carbon." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Yes,_the_Kochs_fund_groups_out_of_self-interest" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Yes, the Kochs fund groups out of self-interest">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;"><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Karl_Polanyi" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Karl Polanyi">Karl Polanyi</a>'s <i>The Great Transformation</i> is an analysis of the enormously destructive and seductive nature of the market fundamentalist worldview that has been so influential over the last three decades. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_Return_of_Karl_Polanyi" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Return of Karl Polanyi">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Market_Fundamentalism" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Market Fundamentalism">Market Fundamentalism</a></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">The unholy ideological trilogy of <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Laissez_Faire" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Laissez Faire">Laissez Faire</a>, <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Free_Market" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Free Market">Free Market</a> and <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Invisible_Hand" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Invisible Hand">Invisible Hand</a>. Beliefs that supposedly will solve all the world's problems. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Market_Fundamentalism" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Market Fundamentalism">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Karl_Polanyi" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Karl Polanyi">Karl Polanyi</a></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;"><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Karl_Polanyi" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Karl Polanyi">Karl Polanyi</a>'s critique of <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Ludwig_von_Mises" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Ludwig von Mises">Ludwig von Mises</a> and <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Market_Fundamentalism" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Market Fundamentalism">Market Fundamentalism</a> in 1934 still outlines the great fallacies and propaganda that have been foisted on us. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Karl_Polanyi" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Karl Polanyi">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a class="external text" href="http://www.alternet.org/story/98338/naomi_klein_strikes_back_at_critics_of_her_'shock_doctrine'_book" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Naomi Klein Strikes Back at Critics of Her 'Shock Doctrine' Book</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Naomi_Klein_Strikes_Back_at_Critics_of_Her_%27Shock_Doctrine%27_Book" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Naomi Klein Strikes Back at Critics of Her 'Shock Doctrine' Book">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;"><a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Naomi_Klein&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Naomi Klein (page does not exist)">Naomi Klein</a> responds to the shockingly poor criticisms from the <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Cato_Institute" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Cato Institute">Cato Institute</a>'s <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Johan_Norberg&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Johan Norberg (page does not exist)">Johan Norberg</a> and The New Republic's <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Jonathan_Chait&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Jonathan Chait (page does not exist)">Jonathan Chait</a>. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Naomi_Klein_Strikes_Back_at_Critics_of_Her_%27Shock_Doctrine%27_Book" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Naomi Klein Strikes Back at Critics of Her 'Shock Doctrine' Book">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a class="external text" href="http://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughLibertarianSpam/comments/28o7wx/not_content_with_failing_at_economics_the_mises/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Not content with failing at economics, the Mises Institute decides to fail at history too. Hint: They side with the Confederacy and the Axis Powers.</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Not_content_with_failing_at_economics,_the_Mises_Institute_decides_to_fail_at_history_too._Hint:_They_side_with_the_Confederacy_and_the_Axis_Powers." style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Not content with failing at economics, the Mises Institute decides to fail at history too. Hint: They side with the Confederacy and the Axis Powers.">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">A review of <i><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Reassessing_the_Presidency_:_The_Rise_of_the_Executive_State_and_the_Decline_of_Freedom" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Reassessing the Presidency : The Rise of the Executive State and the Decline of Freedom">Reassessing the Presidency : The Rise of the Executive State and the Decline of Freedom</a></i>. "The book has conspiracy theories, bad history, bad economics, a strong libertarian bias, etc." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Not_content_with_failing_at_economics,_the_Mises_Institute_decides_to_fail_at_history_too._Hint:_They_side_with_the_Confederacy_and_the_Axis_Powers." style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Not content with failing at economics, the Mises Institute decides to fail at history too. Hint: They side with the Confederacy and the Axis Powers.">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">A revisionist look through the lense of extreme libertarian ideology. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Reassessing_the_Presidency_:_The_Rise_of_the_Executive_State_and_the_Decline_of_Freedom" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Reassessing the Presidency : The Rise of the Executive State and the Decline of Freedom">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"Polanyi teaches us that periods of prosperity and rising living standards [...] were a direct result of democratic gains in politics and civil society. The greatest prosperity in living memory in Europe and the United States came during the social democratic moment -- in the 1950s and 1960s -- when the constraints on business were the greatest." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_Power_of_Market_Fundamentalism:_Karl_Polanyi%27s_Critique" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Power of Market Fundamentalism: Karl Polanyi's Critique">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a class="external text" href="http://theweek.com/article/index/263498/the-myth-of-big-government-in-the-redskins-trademark-case" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">The myth of Big Government in the Redskins trademark case</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_myth_of_Big_Government_in_the_Redskins_trademark_case" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The myth of Big Government in the Redskins trademark case">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"Government intervention is the engine that makes the economy what it is. Watching what happens when that intervention is occasionally removed, as in the Redskins trademark case, should make that as clear as day." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_myth_of_Big_Government_in_the_Redskins_trademark_case" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The myth of Big Government in the Redskins trademark case">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"Examining 15 types of legal gambling, the researchers came to a striking conclusion: Casino gambling had by far the most harmful effects on people at the lower end of the income ladder." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Gaming_the_Poor" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Gaming the Poor">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Libertarian ideology proposes completely legal and unregulated sex, including prostitution, polyamory (bigamy and polygamy), child sex, child marriage, etc. Regulation for protection from disease, protection of family, exploitation of women, etc. is ruled out. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Sex" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Sex">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">The public health approach treats problems (such as addictive drugs, gambling, and extramarital sex) with harm reduction, rather than simple moral judgements or prohibition. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Public_Health_Approach" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Public Health Approach">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Libertarian ideology takes an absurd total unregulated legalization position. But these have enormous externalities having to do with health, crime, family problems and neglect of other responsibilities. These are all economically irrational on a grand scale. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Drugs,_Gambling_and_Sex" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Drugs, Gambling and Sex">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;"><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Gambling" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Gambling">Gambling</a> is the classic example of economic irrationality. Worse, it has enormous externalities due to crime, family relationships and neglect of other responsibilities. The best solution may be the <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Public_Health_Approach" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Public Health Approach">Public Health Approach</a>. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Gambling" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Gambling">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Many libertarian tech workers benefit from government policies that libertarians seek to eliminate. Even worse, they complain about private industry practices that could be rectified with government intervention while holding a viewpoint that the private industry is always right. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Tech_workers_should_not_be_libertarian" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Tech workers should not be libertarian">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;"><a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Steve_Waldman&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Steve Waldman (page does not exist)">Steve Waldman</a> at Interfluidity presents a 4 or more part blog posting on the basics and limitations of <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Pareto_Optimality" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Pareto Optimality">Pareto Optimality</a>. The takeaway message in part 4 is that we must decide on distribution before letting markets move towards a Pareto Optimum. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Welfare_economics:_an_introduction" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Welfare economics: an introduction">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">A simple demonstration of the narrowness of libertarianism's ideological peephole. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Libertarianism:_The_FAQ" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Libertarianism: The FAQ">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Heinlein was able to reinvent himself several times as a graduate student, miner, architect and writer thanks to security of having a Navy pension at age 27. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Jeet_Heer_on_Robert_A._Heinlein%27s_Navy_Disability_Pension" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Jeet Heer on Robert A. Heinlein's Navy Disability Pension">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;"><a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Thomas_Paines&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Thomas Paines (page does not exist)">Thomas Paines</a>' prescient proposal which advocated the use of an estate tax and a tax on land values to fund a universal old-age and disability pension, as well as a fixed sum to be paid to all citizens on reaching maturity. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Agrarian_Justice" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Agrarian Justice">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"In other words, the people would receive Social Security, including widows' benefits, welfare, unemployment benefits, veterans' benefits and free education, plus a sum to every married couple to help them start out in life, and these would be rights, things that you were ENTITLED to. Not in any way a charity! Paid for through general taxation." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_Common_Sense_Entitlements_of_Thomas_Paine" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Common Sense Entitlements of Thomas Paine">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">A posting from an escapee about neoreation cult-like practices along with comments from <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=PZ_Meyers&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="PZ Meyers (page does not exist)">PZ Meyers</a> about the pseudoscience of the "human biodiversity" beliefs: a fancy code name for racism. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_Dark_Enlightenment_loons_and_HBD" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Dark Enlightenment loons and HBD">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">The cult-like "Dark Enlightenment" movement whose developing ideology includes racism (coded as "human biodiversity"), men's rights, anti-democratic monarchism, libertarian adoration of plutocrats, technological utopianism, secret mummery (with handshakes, initiations, and plenty of code words!) Another Scientology is aborning. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Neoreaction" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Neoreaction">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"But the Grab World baseline allows us to see that all economic institutions are restrictions and infringements on liberty. Property is the most liberty-destroying and all-encompassing of the restrictive economic institutions, but contracts, patents, copyrights, securities, corporations, and so on do the same thing." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_Lesson_of_Grab_What_You_Can" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Lesson of Grab What You Can">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;"><a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Robert_Hale&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Robert Hale (page does not exist)">Robert Hale</a> points out in 1923: [T]he systems advocated by professed upholders of <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Laissez_Faire" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Laissez Faire">laissez-faire</a> are in reality permeated with coercive restrictions of individual freedom and with restrictions, moreover, out of conformity with any formula of "equal opportunity" or of "preserving the equal rights of others." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Coercion_and_Distribution_in_a_Supposedly_Non-Coercive_State" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Coercion and Distribution in a Supposedly Non-Coercive State">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Nations with social democratic institutions in the developed world have much less child poverty than nations with liberal market institutions. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Child_Poverty_Across_Political_Traditions" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Child Poverty Across Political Traditions">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Libertarians, lacking real world examples, eagerly swallow fictional examples, especially science fiction. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Fiction" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Fiction">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">On <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Robert_Heinlein&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Robert Heinlein (page does not exist)">Robert Heinlein</a>: "Later in life, as a libertarian, he would rail against “loafers” and the welfare state but in his leftist days he knew how much he depended on the government." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=A_Famous_Science_Fiction_Writer%27s_Descent_Into_Libertarian_Madness" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="A Famous Science Fiction Writer's Descent Into Libertarian Madness">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a class="external text" href="http://www.bruegel.org/nc/blog/detail/article/1355-blogs-review-the-sharing-economy-hype/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">The sharing economy hype</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_sharing_economy_hype" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The sharing economy hype">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Although these companies facilitate the use of underutilized resources, the reality is that this new business model is largely based on evading regulations and breaking the law. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_sharing_economy_hype" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The sharing economy hype">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a class="external text" href="http://www.uncomputing.org/?p=1383" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">“Permissionless Innovation”: Using Technology to Dismantle the Republic</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=%E2%80%9CPermissionless_Innovation%E2%80%9D:_Using_Technology_to_Dismantle_the_Republic" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="“Permissionless Innovation”: Using Technology to Dismantle the Republic">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"Whether or not it is best for business to have democratic government looking over the shoulders of business, it is absolutely, indubitably necessary for democratic governance to mean anything. That is why libertarians had to come up with a new term for what they want; “laws and regulations don’t apply to us” might tip off the plebes to what is really going on." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=%E2%80%9CPermissionless_Innovation%E2%80%9D:_Using_Technology_to_Dismantle_the_Republic" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="“Permissionless Innovation”: Using Technology to Dismantle the Republic">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Evasion of regulation, based on the view that entrepreneurs and “innovators” are the lifeblood of society, and must be allowed to push forward without needing to ask for “permission” from government, for the good of society. It is license to harm; it is a demand that government not intrude in exactly the area that government is meant for -- to protect the general welfare of citizens. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Permissionless_Innovation" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Permissionless Innovation">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a class="external text" href="http://www.salon.com/2014/06/12/libertarian_pundit_adam_kokesh_defends_las_vegas_shooters_for_not_necessarily_unjustified_violence/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Libertarian pundit Adam Kokesh defends Las Vegas shooters for “not necessarily unjustified violence”</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Libertarian_pundit_Adam_Kokesh_defends_Las_Vegas_shooters_for_%E2%80%9Cnot_necessarily_unjustified_violence%E2%80%9D" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Libertarian pundit Adam Kokesh defends Las Vegas shooters for “not necessarily unjustified violence”">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"[L]ibertarian pundit, gun rights activist and former resident of a D.C. prison Adam Kokesh partially defended the actions of Jerad and Amanda Miller, the far-right extremists who recently killed two police officers, a civilian and themselves in a Las Vegas public shooting." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Libertarian_pundit_Adam_Kokesh_defends_Las_Vegas_shooters_for_%E2%80%9Cnot_necessarily_unjustified_violence%E2%80%9D" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Libertarian pundit Adam Kokesh defends Las Vegas shooters for “not necessarily unjustified violence”">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a class="external text" href="http://theweek.com/article/index/262982/an-advisor-to-pope-francis-says-catholicism-is-incompatible-with-libertarianism-hes-right" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">An adviser to Pope Francis says Catholicism is incompatible with libertarianism. He's right.</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=An_adviser_to_Pope_Francis_says_Catholicism_is_incompatible_with_libertarianism._He%27s_right." style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="An adviser to Pope Francis says Catholicism is incompatible with libertarianism. He's right.">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"For Augustine, unlike secular legal realists, property has a spiritual dimension: All things in common belong to the people of God. But in temporal matters that heavenly distribution isn't honored, and so we rely on states to create institutions of property that are hopefully fair and just. " <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=An_adviser_to_Pope_Francis_says_Catholicism_is_incompatible_with_libertarianism._He%27s_right." style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="An adviser to Pope Francis says Catholicism is incompatible with libertarianism. He's right.">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a class="external text" href="http://www.publiceye.org/magazine/v22n3/libertarian.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">The Libertarian Theocrats: The Long, Strange History of R.J. Rushdoony and Christian Reconstructionism</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_Libertarian_Theocrats:_The_Long,_Strange_History_of_R.J._Rushdoony_and_Christian_Reconstructionism" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Libertarian Theocrats: The Long, Strange History of R.J. Rushdoony and Christian Reconstructionism">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"It is true that today a secular -- and in some cases rabidly atheistic -- tendency dominates libertarianism. But this has not always been the case." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_Libertarian_Theocrats:_The_Long,_Strange_History_of_R.J._Rushdoony_and_Christian_Reconstructionism" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Libertarian Theocrats: The Long, Strange History of R.J. Rushdoony and Christian Reconstructionism">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a class="external text" href="http://www.religiondispatches.org/dispatches/julieingersoll/7935/david_brat__catholic__calvinist__and_libertarian__oh_my_/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">David Brat: Catholic, Calvinist, and Libertarian, Oh My!</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=David_Brat:_Catholic,_Calvinist,_and_Libertarian,_Oh_My!" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="David Brat: Catholic, Calvinist, and Libertarian, Oh My!">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"This isn’t the first time observers have wondered how politically engaged conservative Protestants can also claim to be libertarian." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=David_Brat:_Catholic,_Calvinist,_and_Libertarian,_Oh_My!" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="David Brat: Catholic, Calvinist, and Libertarian, Oh My!">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Libertarians who want an economic zone free of government regulation, but want religious dominion over government and economics. Libertarianism conforming to "biblical economics" and theocracy. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Theocratic_Libertarians" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Theocratic Libertarians">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Libertarians range from staunch atheists like <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Ayn_Rand" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Ayn Rand">Ayn Rand</a> to <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Theocratic_Libertarians" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Theocratic Libertarians">theocrats</a>. A delightful miscellany of bad reasoning! <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Religion" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Religion">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Regulation" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Regulation">Regulation</a></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Regulation can protect important liberties, such as freedom from poisoning by pollution. Complaints that regulation "<a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Job_Killers&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Job Killers (page does not exist)">destroys jobs</a>" are laughable because ordinary productivity increases routinely destroy vast numbers of jobs. How many of us have farm jobs any more? Meeting regulatory requirements may even create new jobs. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Regulation" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Regulation">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a class="external text" href="http://crooksandliars.com/2014/06/how-blackstone-fellowships-build" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">How The Theocratic Right Wing Guarantees Its Legacy: Grooming Future Judges</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=How_The_Theocratic_Right_Wing_Guarantees_Its_Legacy:_Grooming_Future_Judges" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="How The Theocratic Right Wing Guarantees Its Legacy: Grooming Future Judges">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"There really is a vast right-wing conspiracy with no separation between the so-called libertarian wing and the theocratic wing. Not only do they coordinate at the top levels, but they are also actively working to inculcate young people with their view that there is no barrier between church and state by actively pursuing law students and offering them a paid fellowship to learn how to bend American law and the constitution to suit a fundamentalist Christian world view." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=How_The_Theocratic_Right_Wing_Guarantees_Its_Legacy:_Grooming_Future_Judges" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="How The Theocratic Right Wing Guarantees Its Legacy: Grooming Future Judges">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a class="external text" href="http://socialdemocracy21stcentury.blogspot.com/2014/06/protectionism-and-us-economic-history.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Protectionism and US Economic History</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Protectionism_and_US_Economic_History" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Protectionism and US Economic History">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"The case for selected protectionism and also “infant industry protectionism” is a strong one. First, all the theoretical arguments in favour of complete free trade fail [....]" <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Protectionism_and_US_Economic_History" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Protectionism and US Economic History">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a class="external text" href="http://socialdemocracy21stcentury.blogspot.com/2011/01/mises-on-ricardian-law-of-association.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Mises on the Ricardian Law of Association: The Flaws of Praxeology</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Mises_on_the_Ricardian_Law_of_Association:_The_Flaws_of_Praxeology" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Mises on the Ricardian Law of Association: The Flaws of Praxeology">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">The alleged economic advantages of free trade claimed by Misesian praxeology and by Ricardo are simply false, because of the false hidden premises in the argument. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Mises_on_the_Ricardian_Law_of_Association:_The_Flaws_of_Praxeology" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Mises on the Ricardian Law of Association: The Flaws of Praxeology">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
Mike Hubenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01371469964446567690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8381613.post-80930240061333653992014-05-27T10:36:00.000-04:002014-05-27T10:36:44.033-04:00What's new<dl style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.2em;">
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 5/27/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://prospect.org/article/brothers-koch-family-drama-and-disdain-democracy" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">The Brothers Koch: Family Drama and Disdain for Democracy</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_Brothers_Koch:_Family_Drama_and_Disdain_for_Democracy" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Brothers Koch: Family Drama and Disdain for Democracy">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">For the Kochs, buying our democracy, and maybe killing it is pure self-interest. A favorable review of <i><a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Sons_of_Wichita:_How_the_Koch_Brothers_Became_America%E2%80%99s_Most_Powerful_and_Private_Dynasty&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Sons of Wichita: How the Koch Brothers Became America’s Most Powerful and Private Dynasty (page does not exist)">Sons of Wichita: How the Koch Brothers Became America’s Most Powerful and Private Dynasty</a></i>. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_Brothers_Koch:_Family_Drama_and_Disdain_for_Democracy" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Brothers Koch: Family Drama and Disdain for Democracy">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 5/27/2014:</span></i> <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_Myth_Of_The_Rational_Market" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Myth Of The Rational Market">The Myth Of The Rational Market</a></dt>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 5/27/2014:</span></i> <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_Rhetoric_of_the_Right:_Language_Change_and_the_Spread_of_the_Market" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Rhetoric of the Right: Language Change and the Spread of the Market">The Rhetoric of the Right: Language Change and the Spread of the Market</a></dt>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 5/27/2014:</span></i> <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Erasing_the_Invisible_Hand:_Essays_on_an_Elusive_and_Misused_Concept_in_Economics" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Erasing the Invisible Hand: Essays on an Elusive and Misused Concept in Economics">Erasing the Invisible Hand: Essays on an Elusive and Misused Concept in Economics</a></dt>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 5/27/2014:</span></i> <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Sons_of_Wichita:_How_the_Koch_Brothers_Became_America%27s_Most_Powerful_and_Private_Dynasty" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Sons of Wichita: How the Koch Brothers Became America's Most Powerful and Private Dynasty">Sons of Wichita: How the Koch Brothers Became America's Most Powerful and Private Dynasty</a></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">The first biography of the 4 Koch brothers and their rise to billionaire plutocracy. Explains the interlocking system of domination of the political apparatus by Charles and David.<a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Sons_of_Wichita:_How_the_Koch_Brothers_Became_America%27s_Most_Powerful_and_Private_Dynasty" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Sons of Wichita: How the Koch Brothers Became America's Most Powerful and Private Dynasty">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 5/23/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://qz.com/208402/economics-can-do-many-things-but-it-cannot-help-the-economy/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Economists used to be the priests of free markets -- now they’re just a bunch of engineers</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Economists_used_to_be_the_priests_of_free_markets_--_now_they%E2%80%99re_just_a_bunch_of_engineers" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Economists used to be the priests of free markets -- now they’re just a bunch of engineers">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Economics is being rescued from libertarianism. "[...] most economists favor government intervention in the economy in a wide range of areas, including income redistribution, minimum wage laws, environmental regulation, anti-discrimination laws, and others (and that was before the financial crisis!)" <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Economists_used_to_be_the_priests_of_free_markets_--_now_they%E2%80%99re_just_a_bunch_of_engineers" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Economists used to be the priests of free markets -- now they’re just a bunch of engineers">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 5/23/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/10/20/the-anti-reactionary-faq/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">The Anti-Reactionary FAQ</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_Anti-Reactionary_FAQ" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Anti-Reactionary FAQ">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"Neoreaction is a political ideology supporting a return to traditional ideas of government and society, especially traditional monarchy and an ethno-nationalist state. It sees itself opposed to modern ideas like democracy, human rights, multiculturalism, and secularism." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_Anti-Reactionary_FAQ" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Anti-Reactionary FAQ">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 5/23/2014:</span></i> <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Libertarian_Dismissals_Of_Inequality" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Libertarian Dismissals Of Inequality">Libertarian Dismissals Of Inequality</a></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Rebuttals to libertarian's five dismissals for problems of extreme inequality: it is market-based just dessert, it is needed for incentives, it is freedom, it is the fault of government, and it is unimportant. All five are wrong. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Libertarian_Dismissals_Of_Inequality" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Libertarian Dismissals Of Inequality">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 5/20/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://dailyanarchist.com/2014/05/04/nuclear-anarchism-part-1-the-specter-of-private-nuclear-weapons/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Nuclear Anarchism Part 1: The Specter of Private Nuclear Weapons</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Nuclear_Anarchism_Part_1:_The_Specter_of_Private_Nuclear_Weapons" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Nuclear Anarchism Part 1: The Specter of Private Nuclear Weapons">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Everybody should be able to own nuclear weapons. Yes, really. Case "proven" by illegitimate demands for perfection. <a class="external text" href="http://dailyanarchist.com/2014/05/10/nuclear-anarchism-part-2-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-private-nuclear-devices/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Part 2: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Private Nuclear Devices</a>. <a class="external text" href="http://dailyanarchist.com/2014/05/16/nuclear-anarchism-part-3-climbing-the-kardashev-scale-for-fun-and-profit/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Part 3: Climbing the Kardashev Scale for Fun and Profit</a>. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Nuclear_Anarchism_Part_1:_The_Specter_of_Private_Nuclear_Weapons" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Nuclear Anarchism Part 1: The Specter of Private Nuclear Weapons">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 5/20/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://conversableeconomist.blogspot.com/2014/05/antibiotic-resistance-mismanaged-public.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Antibiotic Resistance: A Mismanaged Public Good</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Antibiotic_Resistance:_A_Mismanaged_Public_Good" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Antibiotic Resistance: A Mismanaged Public Good">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"In the case of antibiotic resistance, health care providers who prescribing antibiotics frequently and easily are seeking to benefit each individual patient, while the costs of accumulating resistance to antibiotics are shared across the population. In this way, the pursuit of health for individual way, resistance to antibiotics builds in a way that can impose heavy costs." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Antibiotic_Resistance:_A_Mismanaged_Public_Good" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Antibiotic Resistance: A Mismanaged Public Good">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 5/20/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://mattbruenig.com/2014/05/16/what-would-constitute-an-end-to-the-race-war/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">What would constitute an end to the race war?</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=What_would_constitute_an_end_to_the_race_war%3F" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="What would constitute an end to the race war?">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"Whites coming out every day and asserting hugely disproportionate power over blacks through the proxy of wealth is not a cessation of conflict. It is renewed daily conflict, which can either be responded to or not." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=What_would_constitute_an_end_to_the_race_war%3F" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="What would constitute an end to the race war?">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 5/20/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://thebaffler.com/blog/2014/05/mouthbreathing_machiavellis" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Mouthbreathing Machiavellis Dream Of A Silicon Reich</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Mouthbreathing_Machiavellis_Dream_Of_A_Silicon_Reich" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Mouthbreathing Machiavellis Dream Of A Silicon Reich">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Anti-democratic authoritarianism is at the core of neoreactionary thought, combined with a large amount of bigotry. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Mouthbreathing_Machiavellis_Dream_Of_A_Silicon_Reich" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Mouthbreathing Machiavellis Dream Of A Silicon Reich">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 5/16/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://antilibertariancriticism.wordpress.com/2014/05/14/left-libertarianism-is-bunk-because-its-still-libertarianism/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Left-Libertarianism Is Bunk Because It’s Still Libertarianism</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Left-Libertarianism_Is_Bunk_Because_It%E2%80%99s_Still_Libertarianism" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Left-Libertarianism Is Bunk Because It’s Still Libertarianism">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"My thought process lead me to reject libertarianism in general as an ideology, and in the aftermath of that I have come to see left-libertarianism as carrying the fundamental problematic aspects of libertarianism along with it for the most part: obsession with opposition to the state, the adoption of capitalist ideology of the market, reliance on overly simplistic and sociologically neutralized analysis, and so on." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Left-Libertarianism_Is_Bunk_Because_It%E2%80%99s_Still_Libertarianism" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Left-Libertarianism Is Bunk Because It’s Still Libertarianism">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 5/16/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/liberty-positive-negative/#OneConLibFreTriRel" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Freedom as a Triadic Relation</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Freedom_as_a_Triadic_Relation" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Freedom as a Triadic Relation">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;"><a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Gerald_MacCallum&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Gerald MacCallum (page does not exist)">Gerald MacCallum</a>'s interpretation that: ""x is/is not free from y to do/not to do or become/not become z". This allows you to make complete "Subject verb object." sentences out of vaguer philosophical claims. That helps eliminate concealed assumptions. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Freedom_as_a_Triadic_Relation" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Freedom as a Triadic Relation">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 5/16/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/liberty-positive-negative/#OneConLibFreTriRel" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">One Concept of Liberty: Freedom as a Triadic Relation</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=One_Concept_of_Liberty:_Freedom_as_a_Triadic_Relation" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="One Concept of Liberty: Freedom as a Triadic Relation">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;"><a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Gerald_MacCallum&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Gerald MacCallum (page does not exist)">Gerald MacCallum</a>'s interpretation that: ""x is/is not free from y to do/not to do or become/not become z". Sections 4 and 5 of <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Positive_and_Negative_Liberty_(Stanford_Encyclopedia_of_Philosophy)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Positive and Negative Liberty (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)">Positive and Negative Liberty (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)</a>. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=One_Concept_of_Liberty:_Freedom_as_a_Triadic_Relation" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="One Concept of Liberty: Freedom as a Triadic Relation">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 5/16/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/liberty-positive-negative/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Positive and Negative Liberty (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Positive_and_Negative_Liberty_(Stanford_Encyclopedia_of_Philosophy)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Positive and Negative Liberty (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">A fairly clear comparison of many interpretations of positive and negative freedom, along with the description of several alternatives, including <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Freedom_as_a_Triadic_Relation" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Freedom as a Triadic Relation">Freedom as a Triadic Relation</a>.<a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Positive_and_Negative_Liberty_(Stanford_Encyclopedia_of_Philosophy)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Positive and Negative Liberty (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 5/16/2014:</span></i> <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Externalities" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Externalities">Externalities</a></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Few actions can be undertaken in a society without affecting other people. These effects are called externalities, and they can be beneficial or costly. <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Econ_101&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Econ 101 (page does not exist)">Econ 101</a> covers how to deal with externalities, but this is conveniently forgotten for the sake of libertarian argument. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Externalities" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Externalities">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 5/16/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://www.wiso.uni-hamburg.de/fileadmin/wiso_vwl/johannes/Ankuendigungen/Berlin_twoconceptsofliberty.pdf" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 12px; text-decoration: none;">Two Concepts of Liberty</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Two_Concepts_of_Liberty" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Two Concepts of Liberty">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Isaiah Berlin's famous overview of how two ideas (of the hundreds) of liberty relate to various historical philosophers' ideas. He uses a different definition of positive liberty than prior authors. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Two_Concepts_of_Liberty" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Two Concepts of Liberty">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 5/16/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://www.cato-unbound.org/2010/03/12/tom-g-palmer/liberty-liberty" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Liberty Is Liberty</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Liberty_Is_Liberty" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Liberty Is Liberty">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;"><a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Tom_Palmer&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Tom Palmer (page does not exist)">Tom Palmer</a> schools <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=David_Schmidtz&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="David Schmidtz (page does not exist)">David Schmidtz</a> and <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Jason_Brennan&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Jason Brennan (page does not exist)">Jason Brennan</a> for confusing several meanings of positive and negative liberty. Then he goes off the deep end, claiming "liberty as a uniquely social concept". <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Liberty_Is_Liberty" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Liberty Is Liberty">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 5/16/2014:</span></i> <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Libertarians_Misunderstand_Liberty" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Libertarians Misunderstand Liberty">Libertarians Misunderstand Liberty</a></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Liberty (also known as <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Freedom" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Freedom">freedom</a>) is a glittering generality of libertarian propaganda. Libertarians do not adequately define it, and often think the mistaken ideas of "positive" and "negative" liberty resolve problems. Liberty can be correctly understood as a triadic relation. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Libertarians_Misunderstand_Liberty" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Libertarians Misunderstand Liberty">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 5/15/2014:</span></i> <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Positive_and_Negative_Liberty" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Positive and Negative Liberty">Positive and Negative Liberty</a></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">The concepts of positive and negative liberty are not generally agreed upon: major philosophers such as <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=T._H._Green&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="T. H. Green (page does not exist)">T. H. Green</a> and <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Isaiah_Berlin&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Isaiah Berlin (page does not exist)">Isaiah Berlin</a> used different meanings, and modern libertarians have their own bastardized meaning. Many philosophers think the distinction is a word game. American legal philosopher <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Gerald_MacCallum&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Gerald MacCallum (page does not exist)">Gerald MacCallum</a> explains liberty as a triadic relationship, with positive and negative being a false dichotomy, different viewpoints of the same thing. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Positive_and_Negative_Liberty" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Positive and Negative Liberty">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 5/12/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/04/22/adam-smith-is-not-the-antidote-to-thomas-piketty/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Adam Smith is not the antidote to Thomas Piketty</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Adam_Smith_is_not_the_antidote_to_Thomas_Piketty" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Adam Smith is not the antidote to Thomas Piketty">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"Smith’s attacks on the laws that allow the concentration of wealth, primogeniture and entail, are not simply policy prescriptions; they are the lynchpin of his explanation for the delayed growth of Europe before 1700." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Adam_Smith_is_not_the_antidote_to_Thomas_Piketty" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Adam Smith is not the antidote to Thomas Piketty">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 5/12/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://www.demos.org/blog/4/22/14/pikettys-capital-what-wealth" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">On Piketty's Capital: What Is Wealth?</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=On_Piketty%27s_Capital:_What_Is_Wealth%3F" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="On Piketty's Capital: What Is Wealth?">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"For Piketty, wealth and capital are ultimately socially constructed categories. [...] The pioneer of this legal constructivist account of market valuation was legal realist Robert Hale. [...] Laws do not just affect valuation of assets. Laws are the very core of asset values." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=On_Piketty%27s_Capital:_What_Is_Wealth%3F" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="On Piketty's Capital: What Is Wealth?">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 5/12/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://www.demos.org/blog/4/25/14/fighting-poverty-and-inequality-proven-way" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Fighting Poverty And Inequality The Proven Way</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Fighting_Poverty_And_Inequality_The_Proven_Way" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Fighting Poverty And Inequality The Proven Way">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">David Brooks suggest improving education to fight poverty and inequality. 40 years of history demonstrates that does not work. Transfer programs do work. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Fighting_Poverty_And_Inequality_The_Proven_Way" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Fighting Poverty And Inequality The Proven Way">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 5/12/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://newstechnica.com/2011/06/18/bitcoin-to-revolutionise-the-economy/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Bitcoin to revolutionise the economy</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Bitcoin_to_revolutionise_the_economy" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Bitcoin to revolutionise the economy">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">It is completely incorrect to describe Bitcoin as a “pyramid scheme.” Technically, it’s a “pump-and-dump.” Some excellent sarcasm too. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Bitcoin_to_revolutionise_the_economy" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Bitcoin to revolutionise the economy">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 5/12/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://understandingsociety.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-social-world.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">The social world</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_social_world" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The social world">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"Methodological individualism is not a valid basis for the social science." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_social_world" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The social world">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 5/12/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://www.voxeu.org/article/greening-economics-it-time" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Greening Economics: It is time</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Greening_Economics:_It_is_time" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Greening Economics: It is time">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"The concept of environmental capital is throughly entrenched in policy dicussions but largely missing from mainstream economic curriculums. [...] The teaching of economics, especially growth economics, should stop ignoring them." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Greening_Economics:_It_is_time" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Greening Economics: It is time">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 5/12/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/28/opinion/krugman-high-plains-moochers.html?_r=1" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">High Plains Moochers</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=High_Plains_Moochers" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="High Plains Moochers">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"It’s true that some of the people profiting from implicit taxpayer subsidies manage, all the same, to convince themselves and others that they are rugged individualists. But they’re actually welfare queens of the purple sage." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=High_Plains_Moochers" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="High Plains Moochers">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 5/12/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://socialdemocracy21stcentury.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-english-language-pedantry-and.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">The English Language, Pedantry and Libertarianism</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_English_Language,_Pedantry_and_Libertarianism" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The English Language, Pedantry and Libertarianism">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Libertarians are trying to take the word "liberalism" for themselves from progressive and left liberals. Part of their Orwellian newspeak strategy. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_English_Language,_Pedantry_and_Libertarianism" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The English Language, Pedantry and Libertarianism">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 5/12/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/top-10-lessons-strange-mirror-universe-ayn-rands-atlas-shrugged?paging=off" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">10 Things I Learned About the World from Ayn Rand's Insane "Atlas Shrugged"</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=10_Things_I_Learned_About_the_World_from_Ayn_Rand%27s_Insane_%22Atlas_Shrugged%22" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="10 Things I Learned About the World from Ayn Rand's Insane "Atlas Shrugged"">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">It's fun to hoot at the blatant propaganda, horrible writing, and moral idiocy of <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Atlas_Shrugged" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Atlas Shrugged">Atlas Shrugged</a>. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=10_Things_I_Learned_About_the_World_from_Ayn_Rand%27s_Insane_%22Atlas_Shrugged%22" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="10 Things I Learned About the World from Ayn Rand's Insane "Atlas Shrugged"">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 5/12/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/30/economics-experts-economists" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Economics is too important to leave to the experts</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Economics_is_too_important_to_leave_to_the_experts" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Economics is too important to leave to the experts">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"[...] it is entirely possible for people who are not professional economists to have sound judgments on economic issues, based on some knowledge of key economic theories and appreciation of the political and ethical assumptions underlying various theories. Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Economics_is_too_important_to_leave_to_the_experts" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Economics is too important to leave to the experts">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 5/12/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2014/04/begging-the-inequality-question.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Begging The Inequality Question</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Begging_The_Inequality_Question" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Begging The Inequality Question">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">All too often, market advocates assume that markets work fine and fixing inequality might make them inefficient. But actually existing markets always depart from perfect models, and already have inefficiencies. Fixing the inequalities might make them more efficient. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Begging_The_Inequality_Question" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Begging The Inequality Question">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 5/12/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://socialdemocracy21stcentury.blogspot.com/2014/04/mark-blaug-was-right-on-mises-method.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Mark Blaug was Right on Mises’ Method</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Mark_Blaug_was_Right_on_Mises%E2%80%99_Method" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Mark Blaug was Right on Mises’ Method">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Mark Blaug in his influential book The Methodology of Economics dismissed Ludwig von Mises’ later methodological work and apriorist praxeology as “so idiosyncratic and dogmatically stated that we can only wonder that they have been taken seriously by anyone”. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Mark_Blaug_was_Right_on_Mises%E2%80%99_Method" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Mark Blaug was Right on Mises’ Method">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 5/12/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://crookedtimber.org/2014/05/01/political-correctness-a-proposed-definition/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Political Correctness: A Proposed Definition</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Political_Correctness:_A_Proposed_Definition" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Political Correctness: A Proposed Definition">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"The problem with the term ‘political correctness’ is that, at least since it was born as a right-wing term of abuse, it’s never had to do a day’s honest work in its life." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Political_Correctness:_A_Proposed_Definition" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Political Correctness: A Proposed Definition">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 5/12/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://crookedtimber.org/2014/04/30/inequality-and-the-arts/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Inequality and the arts</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Inequality_and_the_arts" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Inequality and the arts">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;"><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Tyler_Cowen" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Tyler Cowen">Tyler Cowen</a>'s defensive observation that inequality allows patronage of the arts gets properly skewered by <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Henry_Farrell&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Henry Farrell (page does not exist)">Henry Farrell</a> and assorted commenters such as <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Corey_Robin&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Corey Robin (page does not exist)">Corey Robin</a>. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Inequality_and_the_arts" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Inequality and the arts">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 5/12/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://ckmurray.blogspot.com/2014/05/micro-foundations-doesnt-solve-lucas.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Micro-foundations don't escape Lucas Critique</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Micro-foundations_don%27t_escape_Lucas_Critique" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Micro-foundations don't escape Lucas Critique">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"The micro-foundations approach has merely been an excuse to continue to conceptualise the economy as self-stabilising and in equilibrium in the face of the Lucas Critique [....]"<a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Micro-foundations_don%27t_escape_Lucas_Critique" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Micro-foundations don't escape Lucas Critique">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 5/12/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/polluterwatch/koch-industries/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Koch Industries: Secretly Funding the Climate Denial Machine</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Koch_Industries:_Secretly_Funding_the_Climate_Denial_Machine" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Koch Industries: Secretly Funding the Climate Denial Machine">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">An index and a short video detailing the enormous funding of climate denialism by the <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Charles_and_David_Koch" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Charles and David Koch">Koch brothers</a> through a huge network of front groups.. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Koch_Industries:_Secretly_Funding_the_Climate_Denial_Machine" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Koch Industries: Secretly Funding the Climate Denial Machine">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Behind the Tea Party movement’s rhetoric of ‘freedom’ versus ‘socialism’ lies a highly co-ordinated network of shadow groups, funded by the likes of billionaire ideologues <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Charles_and_David_Koch" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Charles and David Koch">Charles and David Koch</a>. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_Billionaires_Tea_Party_Documentary" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Billionaires Tea Party Documentary">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 5/12/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://www.globalpossibilities.org/why-we-talk-about-the-kochs/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Why we talk about the Kochs</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Why_we_talk_about_the_Kochs" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Why we talk about the Kochs">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"The Kochs threaten to destroy American democracy, regardless of their views. And, as it happens, their extreme and self-interested positions are taking over the Republican Party." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Why_we_talk_about_the_Kochs" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Why we talk about the Kochs">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 5/12/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://www.alan.com/2014/05/02/militia-leader-who-wants-to-have-harry-reids-balls-ripped-off-lives-on-gov-disability-money/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Militia Leader Who Wants To Have Harry Reid’s ‘Balls Ripped Off’ Lives On Gov. Disability Money</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Militia_Leader_Who_Wants_To_Have_Harry_Reid%E2%80%99s_%E2%80%98Balls_Ripped_Off%E2%80%99_Lives_On_Gov._Disability_Money" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Militia Leader Who Wants To Have Harry Reid’s ‘Balls Ripped Off’ Lives On Gov. Disability Money">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Libertarian Mike Vanderbeogh gets all upset about collectivism while living off of government disability checks. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Militia_Leader_Who_Wants_To_Have_Harry_Reid%E2%80%99s_%E2%80%98Balls_Ripped_Off%E2%80%99_Lives_On_Gov._Disability_Money" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Militia Leader Who Wants To Have Harry Reid’s ‘Balls Ripped Off’ Lives On Gov. Disability Money">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 5/12/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2014/05/tyler-cowens-anti-piketty-crusade.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Tyler Cowen's anti-Piketty crusade</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Tyler_Cowen%27s_anti-Piketty_crusade" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Tyler Cowen's anti-Piketty crusade">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 5/12/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://www.demos.org/blog/4/30/14/robert-nozick-agrees-thomas-piketty" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Robert Nozick Agrees With Thomas Piketty</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Robert_Nozick_Agrees_With_Thomas_Piketty" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Robert Nozick Agrees With Thomas Piketty">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"As diehard a libertarian as Nozick was, even he found himself bothered by the prospect of "patrimonial capitalism" to borrow Piketty's phrase [....]" "Like all of his prior forays into the realm of philosophy, Mankiw has this one entirely wrong." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Robert_Nozick_Agrees_With_Thomas_Piketty" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Robert Nozick Agrees With Thomas Piketty">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 5/12/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://www.voxeu.org/article/mainstream-economics-curriculum-needs-overhaul" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">The mainstream economics curriculum needs an overhaul</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_mainstream_economics_curriculum_needs_an_overhaul" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The mainstream economics curriculum needs an overhaul">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Undergraduate economics education is not properly training tomorrow’s policymakers. At the minimum they need some economic history, the diversity of economic viewpoints and training in skepticism of all economic claims. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_mainstream_economics_curriculum_needs_an_overhaul" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The mainstream economics curriculum needs an overhaul">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 5/12/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/ricardo-hausmann-explains-why-technological-diffusion-does-not-occur-according-to-economic-theory" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">The Mismeasure of Technology</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_Mismeasure_of_Technology" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Mismeasure of Technology">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Total factor productivity is a residual, the unexplained causes of growth. Blaming government for slow growth is in part wrong, since diffusion of collective "knowhow" seems to be the limiting factor of much growth. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_Mismeasure_of_Technology" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Mismeasure of Technology">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 5/12/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://robertreich.org/post/84828387105" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">The Four Biggest Right-Wing Lies About Inequality</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_Four_Biggest_Right-Wing_Lies_About_Inequality" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Four Biggest Right-Wing Lies About Inequality">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">The right wing lies about job creation, just desert, opportunity and minimum wage. Demand creates jobs, pay rates depend on bargaining power, opportunity requires better education, and minimum wages are good for the economy and the poor. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_Four_Biggest_Right-Wing_Lies_About_Inequality" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Four Biggest Right-Wing Lies About Inequality">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 5/12/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/01/22/the_inefficiency_of_inequality" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">The Inefficiency of Inequality</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_Inefficiency_of_Inequality" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Inefficiency of Inequality">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"This problem, which economists call inefficient allocation, is present in the market for opportunities as well. [...] To a great degree, access to opportunity in the United States depends on wealth. Discrimination based on race, religion, gender, and sexual discrimination may be on the wane in many countries, but discrimination based on wealth is still a powerful force." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_Inefficiency_of_Inequality" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Inefficiency of Inequality">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 5/12/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Columns/2014/05/06/Why-Economists-Are-Finally-Taking-Inequality-Seriously" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Why Economists Are Finally Taking Inequality Seriously</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Why_Economists_Are_Finally_Taking_Inequality_Seriously" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Why Economists Are Finally Taking Inequality Seriously">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"Inequality could be a natural outcome of capitalist systems, and market failures could magnify unequal outcomes, but the main point is that economic research has not yet settled these fundamental questions. " <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Why_Economists_Are_Finally_Taking_Inequality_Seriously" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Why Economists Are Finally Taking Inequality Seriously">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 5/12/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://crookedtimber.org/2014/05/06/wealth-earned-or-inherited/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Wealth: earned or inherited?</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Wealth:_earned_or_inherited%3F" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Wealth: earned or inherited?">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"The fact that currently wealthy Americans have not, in general, inherited their wealth follows logically from the fact that, in their parents’ generation, there weren’t comparable accumulations of wealth to be bequeathed." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Wealth:_earned_or_inherited%3F" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Wealth: earned or inherited?">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 5/12/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://mattbruenig.com/2014/05/07/property-and-conflict/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Property and Conflict</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Property_and_Conflict" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Property and Conflict">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"That private property is extremely anti-libertarian poses a problem for libertarians, who are notable for their near worship of private property institutions. One of the ways they have taken to getting around this is to talk about the necessity of private property institutions for the avoidance of conflict [...] libertarian institutions are neither necessary nor sufficient for conflict avoidance." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Property_and_Conflict" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Property and Conflict">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 5/12/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=4141" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">State Taxes Have a Negligible Impact on Americans' Interstate Moves</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=State_Taxes_Have_a_Negligible_Impact_on_Americans%27_Interstate_Moves" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="State Taxes Have a Negligible Impact on Americans' Interstate Moves">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"The available data, however, fail to support claims that much interstate migration is driven by high-income people -- or anyone else -- consciously choosing low-tax locations."<a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=State_Taxes_Have_a_Negligible_Impact_on_Americans%27_Interstate_Moves" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="State Taxes Have a Negligible Impact on Americans' Interstate Moves">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 5/11/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://www.salon.com/2014/05/10/libertarians_scary_new_star_meet_bryan_caplan_the_rights_next_great_philosopher/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Libertarians’ scary new star: Meet Bryan Caplan, the right’s next “great” philosopher</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Libertarians%E2%80%99_scary_new_star:_Meet_Bryan_Caplan,_the_right%E2%80%99s_next_%E2%80%9Cgreat%E2%80%9D_philosopher" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Libertarians’ scary new star: Meet Bryan Caplan, the right’s next “great” philosopher">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"You might be tempted to dismiss Bryan Caplan as just another Koch-funded libertarian hack. But I think he may well be the next great libertarian philosopher. Caplanism may represent the future of that near-oxymoron, libertarian thought." (sarcasm) <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Libertarians%E2%80%99_scary_new_star:_Meet_Bryan_Caplan,_the_right%E2%80%99s_next_%E2%80%9Cgreat%E2%80%9D_philosopher" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Libertarians’ scary new star: Meet Bryan Caplan, the right’s next “great” philosopher">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 5/11/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://thetyee.ca/Mediacheck/2014/05/05/Thomas-Piketty-Destroys/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">How Thomas Piketty Destroys Libertarian Talking Points</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=How_Thomas_Piketty_Destroys_Libertarian_Talking_Points" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="How Thomas Piketty Destroys Libertarian Talking Points">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"The wrong-headed policies promoted by libertarians and their ilk, who hate any form of tax on the rich, such as inheritance taxes, have ensured that big fortunes in America are getting bigger, and they will play a much more prominent role in the direction of our society and economy if we continue on the present path." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=How_Thomas_Piketty_Destroys_Libertarian_Talking_Points" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="How Thomas Piketty Destroys Libertarian Talking Points">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 5/11/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://www.vox.com/2014/5/8/5669120/how-the-us-stopped-its-fisheries-from-collapsing" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">How the US stopped its fisheries from collapsing</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=How_the_US_stopped_its_fisheries_from_collapsing" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="How the US stopped its fisheries from collapsing">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Fishing regulations do work to end the overfishing tragedy of the commons. Where governments step in, the fish stocks recover. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=How_the_US_stopped_its_fisheries_from_collapsing" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="How the US stopped its fisheries from collapsing">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 5/11/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://mattbruenig.com/2014/05/09/desert-theory-rehashed/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Desert Theory, Rehashed</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Desert_Theory,_Rehashed" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Desert Theory, Rehashed">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">The idea of "just deserts", so important to laissez-faire ideas, would not result from laissez-faire and in reality has significant problems.. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Desert_Theory,_Rehashed" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Desert Theory, Rehashed">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 5/11/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://www.nextnewdeal.net/stiglitz-why-inequality-matters-and-what-can-be-done-about-it" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Why Inequality Matters and What Can Be Done About It</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Why_Inequality_Matters_and_What_Can_Be_Done_About_It" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Why Inequality Matters and What Can Be Done About It">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Inequality is not "natural", nor is it "just deserts": it is in large part a result of policy, which we can change. Economic inequality is harmful to democracy, because it causes political inequality. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Why_Inequality_Matters_and_What_Can_Be_Done_About_It" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Why Inequality Matters and What Can Be Done About It">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 5/06/2014:</span></i> <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Market_Efficiency" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Market Efficiency">Market Efficiency</a></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Market efficiency is the great benefit of capitalism, but <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Capitalism" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Capitalism">capitalists</a> hate it because it means low profits. Capitalists battle market efficiency through <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Monopoly,_Oligopoly,_Market_Power_and_AntiTrust" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Monopoly, Oligopoly, Market Power and AntiTrust">monopoly</a>, marketing and other assaults on the assumptions of <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Free_Market_Theory" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Free Market Theory">Free Market Theory</a>. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Market_Efficiency" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Market Efficiency">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 5/04/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2014/05/pareto-inequality-and-government-debt.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Pareto, Inequality and Government Debt</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Pareto,_Inequality_and_Government_Debt" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Pareto, Inequality and Government Debt">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"Pareto efficiency [is] obviously not a value free criteria. So those who argue that economists should only look for Pareto improvements – changes where no one is made worse off -- are making a value judgement." Focussing on Pareto improvements ignores the diminishing marginal utility of consumption. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Pareto,_Inequality_and_Government_Debt" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Pareto, Inequality and Government Debt">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 5/04/2014:</span></i> <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Pareto_Optimality_and_Pareto_Improvements" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Pareto Optimality and Pareto Improvements">Pareto Optimality and Pareto Improvements</a></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Pareto optimality is often an illusory hope. It does not help us choose WHICH Pareto Optimum we'd want, and there can be many. Pareto improvements assume many things which are not true, such as that inequality doesn't matter. They also are frequently used in bait-and-switch: lump-sum transfers to make sure everybody benefits are often conveniently forgotten. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Pareto_Optimality_and_Pareto_Improvements" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Pareto Optimality and Pareto Improvements">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 5/04/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://www-personal.umich.edu/~eandersn/bankruptcy.pdf" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 12px; text-decoration: none;">Ethical Assumptions in Economic Theory: Some Lessons from the History of Credit and Bankruptcy</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Ethical_Assumptions_in_Economic_Theory:_Some_Lessons_from_the_History_of_Credit_and_Bankruptcy" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Ethical Assumptions in Economic Theory: Some Lessons from the History of Credit and Bankruptcy">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Capitalism does not "distinguish between free contracts and contracts into bondage, or between agreements reached by self-debasement or a dignified offer." Thus it will "often require constraints on the scope of freedom of contract and property rights, against the laissez faire ideal." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Ethical_Assumptions_in_Economic_Theory:_Some_Lessons_from_the_History_of_Credit_and_Bankruptcy" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Ethical Assumptions in Economic Theory: Some Lessons from the History of Credit and Bankruptcy">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
Mike Hubenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01371469964446567690noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8381613.post-23122703243717517552014-05-01T14:46:00.000-04:002014-05-01T14:46:00.904-04:00What's new<dl style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.2em;">
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"To paraphrase a line once used about Malcolm X and the 50s and 60s era Nation Islam, Ron Paul may not like white nationalism, but white nationalism sure likes Ron Paul."<a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Hard_to_Handle" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Hard to Handle">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Jeet_Heer_critiques_libertarians_on_race" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Jeet Heer critiques libertarians on race">Jeet Heer critiques libertarians on race</a></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;"><a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Jonathan_Blanks&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Jonathan Blanks (page does not exist)">Jonathan Blanks</a> and <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Brian_Beutler&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Brian Beutler (page does not exist)">Brian Beutler</a> assembled a number of tweets from <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Jeet_Heer&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Jeet Heer (page does not exist)">Jeet Heer</a> on libertarian problems with race issues, starting with outright racist appeals from <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Ron_Paul" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Ron Paul">Ron Paul</a> and general insensitivity among largely white libertarians. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Jeet_Heer_critiques_libertarians_on_race" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Jeet Heer critiques libertarians on race">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">There is a strong overlap between racists and libertarians. Because libertarianism obsesses about independence from social norms, racists are welcome, and actively courted by people like <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Ron_Paul" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Ron Paul">Ron Paul</a>. No surprise that <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=2013_American_Values_Survey:_In_Search_of_Libertarians_in_America" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="2013 American Values Survey: In Search of Libertarians in America">libertarians are 94% white</a>, whiter even than the Republican party. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Racists" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Racists">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a class="external text" href="http://www.interfluidity.com/v2/5066.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">VC for the people</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=VC_for_the_people" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="VC for the people">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">There are reasons to believe that a <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Basic_Income" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Basic Income">Basic Income</a> program would be beneficial for growth and allow people to "take chances on more meaningful and ultimately more valuable work." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=VC_for_the_people" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="VC for the people">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Thomas Sargent gave a speech with 12 supposed principles of economics. Here's an alternative set. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=12_Alternative_Principles" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="12 Alternative Principles">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a class="external text" href="http://fatasmihov.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-contradiction-in-economics.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">The contradiction in economics</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_contradiction_in_economics" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The contradiction in economics">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Thomas Sargent's 12 lessons of economics have been criticized as "as either too simplistic, partial or just wrong". But are these really lessons or just assumptions economists make? <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_contradiction_in_economics" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The contradiction in economics">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">The broken window analogy fails to explain how Europe has become so much more prosperous after innumerable wars. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Bastiat%27s_Broken_Window_Error" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Bastiat's Broken Window Error">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a class="external text" href="http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2014/04/21/patterson-and-kehoe-and-the-great-lead-debate/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Patterson and Kehoe, and the great lead debate</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Patterson_and_Kehoe,_and_the_great_lead_debate" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Patterson and Kehoe, and the great lead debate">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">How Robert Kehoe developed the strategy that the lead industry used to avoid regulation and liability over the course of decades of poisoning of millions. A strategy replicated for tobacco, innumerable other pollutants, and global warming denialism. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Patterson_and_Kehoe,_and_the_great_lead_debate" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Patterson and Kehoe, and the great lead debate">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">A summary of the important findings of <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Martin_Gilens&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Martin Gilens (page does not exist)">Martin Gilens</a> and <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Benjamin_Page&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Benjamin Page (page does not exist)">Benjamin Page</a>'s study. "In English: the wealthy few move policy, while the average American has little power." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Study:_US_is_an_oligarchy,_not_a_democracy" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Study: US is an oligarchy, not a democracy">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Senator Bernie Sanders explains "how successful David Koch and like-minded billionaires have been in moving the Republican Party to the extreme right" over the past 34 years. "Our great nation must not be hijacked by right-wing billionaires like the Koch brothers." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Who_Are_the_Koch_Brothers_and_What_Do_They_Want%3F" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Who Are the Koch Brothers and What Do They Want?">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Robert Kuttner explains how Polanyi's <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_Great_Transformation:_The_Political_and_Economic_Origins_of_Our_Time" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time">The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time</a> is more relevant now than ever. "Contrary to libertarian economists from Adam Smith to Hayek, Polanyi argued, there was nothing “natural” about the free market." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Karl_Polanyi_Explains_It_All" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Karl Polanyi Explains It All">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a class="external text" href="http://equitablegrowth.org/2014/04/21/frederic-bastiat-modern-liberal-market-vs-government-failure-monday-focus-april-21-2014/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Frederic Bastiat as a Modern Liberal</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Frederic_Bastiat_as_a_Modern_Liberal" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Frederic Bastiat as a Modern Liberal">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"Frederic Bastiat is a liberal in the modern sense–concerned with positive as much as negative liberty, as eager to use government to boost people’s power to accomplish their purposes (when it can effectively do so) as to preserve individuals’ freedom of action from pointless regulatory meddling." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Frederic_Bastiat_as_a_Modern_Liberal" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Frederic Bastiat as a Modern Liberal">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Libertarians like Bastiat because he criticized some government practices as foolish or thievery. However, he consider taxation for many government services justified, work programs in times of crisis, infrastructure, etc. He was a modern liberal. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Frederic_Bastiat" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Frederic Bastiat">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">A large list of classical liberals displaying the huge diversity of their views, including many pro-grovernment or anti-capitalist liberals such as American founders, Rousseau, Kant, Bentham, etc. Libertarians like to misrepresent them with only a list of conservative economists. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Classical_Liberalism_and_Classical_Liberals" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Classical Liberalism and Classical Liberals">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a class="external text" href="http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs10602-013-9148-5.pdf" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 12px; text-decoration: none;">Buchanan clubs</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Buchanan_clubs" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Buchanan clubs">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Starts with a brief, easy overview of Club Goods versus <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Public_Goods" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Public Goods">Public Goods</a>. Club goods are non-rivalrous (until congestion occurs) like public goods, but excludable. Much of<a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Government" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Government">government</a> can be characterized as producing public goods and club goods. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Buchanan_clubs" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Buchanan clubs">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"If a pro-white political philosophy is to gain traction in a world that now finds it abhorrent, it cannot overtly present itself. Pro-white advocates will have better luck adopting mainstream ideologies that include advantages for whites." Such as libertarianism. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Letting_the_Free_Market_Bare_Its_Teeth" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Letting the Free Market Bare Its Teeth">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Americans are about equally libertarian and communalist, about 7% each. Quite different than the Nolan Chart would leave you to believe. And surprise! Most are young, while males who favor legalizing marijuana, but oppose same-sex marriage. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=2013_American_Values_Survey:_In_Search_of_Libertarians_in_America" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="2013 American Values Survey: In Search of Libertarians in America">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;"><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Murray_Rothbard" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Murray Rothbard">Murray Rothbard</a> proclaims the necessity of libertarian revisionist history, because all other history is the "lies and deception of the State and its Court Intellectuals". He wants us to switch to HIS propaganda. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_Noble_Task_of_Revisionism" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Noble Task of Revisionism">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a class="external text" href="http://mattbruenig.com/2013/08/17/the-nozickian-case-for-rawls-difference-principle/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">The Nozickian case for Rawls’ difference principle</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_Nozickian_case_for_Rawls%E2%80%99_difference_principle" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Nozickian case for Rawls’ difference principle">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"There is a very strong Nozickian case to be made for Rawls’ difference principle. Because the reality of scarcity causes the use of resources to necessarily infringe upon the liberty of others, it makes sense to say (as Nozick does) that you should only be able to undertake such use if it does not worsen the position of others." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_Nozickian_case_for_Rawls%E2%80%99_difference_principle" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Nozickian case for Rawls’ difference principle">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a class="external text" href="http://mattbruenig.com/2014/04/12/salvaging-non-aggression-for-egalitarianism/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Salvaging Non-Aggression for Egalitarianism</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Salvaging_Non-Aggression_for_Egalitarianism" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Salvaging Non-Aggression for Egalitarianism">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"[...] we can say that we should only impose such institutions [property] if we do so in a way that essentially strikes a fair deal with those whose negative liberty we are destroying. This is, essentially, what <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Robert_Nozick" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Robert Nozick">Robert Nozick</a> has in mind when he says that you can blow up people’s negative liberty so long as you do not worsen their welfare." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Salvaging_Non-Aggression_for_Egalitarianism" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Salvaging Non-Aggression for Egalitarianism">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;"><a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Brad_DeLong&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Brad DeLong (page does not exist)">Brad DeLong</a> points out that maximizing real income per capita is a choice that does not escape the problem of interpersonal value comparisons, and thus cannot pretend to be dispassionately utilitarian. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_Social_and_Moral_Philosophy_of_the_Minimum_Wage" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Social and Moral Philosophy of the Minimum Wage">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"One of the common ways in which this plays out is when someone says that egalitarianism makes no sense because it is obvious that people have different levels of intelligence, different physical attributes, different abilities and specializations, and so on. In other words, egalitarians are characterized as proposing that everyone is inherently equal in such a literal sense. But, to my knowledge, no one actually claims this, and hence it is a gigantic straw man. " <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=In_Defense_of_Egalitarianism" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="In Defense of Egalitarianism">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;"><a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Matthew_Yglesias&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Matthew Yglesias (page does not exist)">Matthew Yglesias</a> provides a short, clear summary of an extremely important book. He explains both the arguments and their relevance. A must read. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_short_guide_to_Capital_in_the_21st_Century" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The short guide to Capital in the 21st Century">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Charles Koch wrote a <a class="external text" href="http://online.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303978304579475860515021286" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">ludicrous screed</a> in the Wall Street Journal, a stand on dignity to excuse decades of plutocratic meddling in politics. A pseudonymous commenter "Mr." served as Anger Translator <a class="external text" href="http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2014/04/how-should-charles-koch-use-his-power.html?showComment=1396629650821#c3832244438525278767" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">at Noahpinion</a>. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Koch%27s_Anger_Translator" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Koch's Anger Translator">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">A large activist page opposed to the multifarious political activities of the <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Koch_brothers" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Koch brothers">Koch brothers</a>. Has a connected blog. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Boycott_Koch" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Boycott Koch">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a class="external text" href="http://mattbruenig.com/2014/03/29/no-violence-but-personal-violence/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">No violence but personal violence</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=No_violence_but_personal_violence" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="No violence but personal violence">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"When I use the word violence in the context of discussing theories of property, I mean a specific thing by it: acting upon the bodies of others without their consent. This is as neutral a definition of “violence” as you will find. It is the definition of violence implied by the concept of self-ownership. It is the definition of violence implied by the concept of negative liberty, which is defined as freedom from external restraint." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=No_violence_but_personal_violence" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="No violence but personal violence">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">To suggest that community or faith-based charities can effectively supplant government social programs is a fantasy that serves only as a talking point to cut those programs.<a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Private_charity_can%27t_replace_government_social_programs" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Private charity can't replace government social programs">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"A new academic study confirms that front groups with longstanding ties to the tobacco industry and the billionaire <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Koch_brothers" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Koch brothers">Koch brothers</a> planned the formation of the Tea Party movement more than a decade before it exploded onto the U.S. political scene. Far from a genuine grassroots uprising, this astroturf effort was curated by wealthy industrialists years in advance." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Study_Confirms_Tea_Party_Was_Created_by_Big_Tobacco_and_Pollutocrat_Kochs" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Study Confirms Tea Party Was Created by Big Tobacco and Pollutocrat Kochs">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"The list is a long one and includes practically every major theory [...]" At least 16 important assumptions that are often false. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=What_is_Wrong_with_Neoclassical_Economics%3F" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="What is Wrong with Neoclassical Economics?">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"First, he looks at the various ways in which risk has increased over the last few decades... But what isn’t hard to trace back are the decisions made by policy makers to exacerbate these risks by aiding and abetting the transfer of risks to individuals rather than countering it. This is the second prong of Hacker’s argument." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Review:_Jacob_Hacker_--_The_Great_Risk_Shift" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Review: Jacob Hacker -- The Great Risk Shift">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Did_Austrians_Never_Predict_Hyperinflation%3F" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Did Austrians Never Predict Hyperinflation?">Did Austrians Never Predict Hyperinflation?</a></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;"><a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Mark_Faber&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Mark Faber (page does not exist)">Mark Faber</a>, <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Peter_Schiff&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Peter Schiff (page does not exist)">Peter Schiff</a>, <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Doug_French&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Doug French (page does not exist)">Doug French</a> and <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Gary_North&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Gary North (page does not exist)">Gary North</a> have all predicted hyperinflation since the Great Recession. "The idea that Austrians never predicted hyperinflation in any sense is outrageous, mendacious and contemptible rewriting of history." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Did_Austrians_Never_Predict_Hyperinflation%3F" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Did Austrians Never Predict Hyperinflation?">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Take some "nobody is the boss of me" libertarian propaganda and add some real circumstances, and suddenly it shows just how stupid the propaganda really is. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=You_vs._John" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="You vs. John">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">A picture can be worth a thousand words. Or 100,000 from Ayn Rand. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Cartoons" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Cartoons">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Libertarians endorse unregulated organ markets, but that would bring many social harms. Single buyer markets where the payments go to the donor's choice of charity might solve most of the problems. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=A_Regulated_Kidney_Market_Designed_To_Minimize_Social_Harms" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="A Regulated Kidney Market Designed To Minimize Social Harms">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a class="external text" href="http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/03/28/3420104/why-these-cheerleaders-wage-theft-claims-against-the-raiders-tell-us-about-the-health-of-american-justice/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">How The Justice System Is Rigged Against These Cheerleaders Suing The Raiders For Wage Theft</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=How_The_Justice_System_Is_Rigged_Against_These_Cheerleaders_Suing_The_Raiders_For_Wage_Theft" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="How The Justice System Is Rigged Against These Cheerleaders Suing The Raiders For Wage Theft">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">A private attempt to create a kangaroo court that can ignore labor law. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan says (of another case): “The monopolist gets to use its monopoly power to insist on a contract effectively depriving its victims of all legal recourse." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=How_The_Justice_System_Is_Rigged_Against_These_Cheerleaders_Suing_The_Raiders_For_Wage_Theft" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="How The Justice System Is Rigged Against These Cheerleaders Suing The Raiders For Wage Theft">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Libertarians promote <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Privatization" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Privatization">privatization</a> of justice through arbitration. Supposedly it is more economical, but it is obviously biased towards employers who require workers to give up rights to take disagreements to court. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Arbitration" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Arbitration">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">When a state upholds a system of property, all it is doing is issuing to owners a set of vouchers for violence against those who ignore property. Trade is similarly based on property and violence. Rents also are based on violence, ruling out just deserts and just processes arguments. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Violence_Vouchers:_A_Descriptive_Account_of_Property" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Violence Vouchers: A Descriptive Account of Property">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Suggested by Adam Smith, first implemented in the USA: reduces <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Inequality" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Inequality">inequality</a> and supported by economic theory. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Progressive_Taxes" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Progressive Taxes">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Libertarians have all sorts of badly stretched analogies they frequently repeat as propaganda. Taxation is not slavery any more than rent or other contracts are slavery. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Taxation_Is_Slavery" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Taxation Is Slavery">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Proto-libertarian author <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Rose_Wilder_Lane&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Rose Wilder Lane (page does not exist)">Rose Wilder Lane</a> commits one of the basic hypocrisies of libertarianism. She declares "we never took anything from government" while conveniently forgetting the free land obtained from government dispossession of native Americans. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Little_House_On_The_Prairie" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Little House On The Prairie">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">An excellent, short review or "<a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=What_Every_Economics_Student_Needs_to_Know_and_Doesn%E2%80%99t_Get_in_the_Usual_Principles_Text&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="What Every Economics Student Needs to Know and Doesn’t Get in the Usual Principles Text (page does not exist)">What Every Economics Student Needs to Know and Doesn’t Get in the Usual Principles Text</a>". <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=A_Book_That_Needed_To_Be_Written" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="A Book That Needed To Be Written">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">A discussion of how realistic economic models should be, and for what purpose. Includes a good criticism of <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Milton_Friedman" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Milton Friedman">Milton Friedman</a>. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Economic_Realism_(Wonkish)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Economic Realism (Wonkish)">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Taxation to prevent an undemocratic distribution of wealth is an American, progressive-era invention which had enormous support. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=America%E2%80%99s_Taxation_Tradition" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="America’s Taxation Tradition">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Libertarians often disparage <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Democracy" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Democracy">democracy</a> as harmful to growth, based on old research. <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Daron_Acemoglu&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Daron Acemoglu (page does not exist)">Daron Acemoglu</a> and <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=James_Robinson&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="James Robinson (page does not exist)">James Robinson</a> explain why the old research was wrong. "In all, the evidence seems to be fairly clear that democracy is good for economic growth." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Democracy,_What_Is_It_Good_For%3F" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Democracy, What Is It Good For?">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;"><a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Peter_Diamond&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Peter Diamond (page does not exist)">Peter Diamond</a> and <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Emmanuel_Saez&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Emmanuel Saez (page does not exist)">Emmanuel Saez</a> explain progressive taxes with optimal tax theory They recommend high marginal tax rates, earnings subsidies to encourage low-income workers and taxation of capital income. They explain why other low-tax policy ideas are not relevant. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_Case_for_a_Progressive_Tax:_From_Basic_Research_to_Policy_Recommendations" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Case for a Progressive Tax: From Basic Research to Policy Recommendations">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a class="external text" href="http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2013/08/09/little-libertarians-prairie-little-libertarians-prairie/DrtramwsrcrdTTIFvdzkOO/story.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Little Libertarians on the prairie</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Little_Libertarians_on_the_prairie" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Little Libertarians on the prairie">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;"><a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Rose_Wilder_Lane&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Rose Wilder Lane (page does not exist)">Rose Wilder Lane</a> rewrote her mothers memoirs to make libertarian American fables. "Comparing Wilder’s original memoirs to the contents of the published books, it’s possible to see a pattern of strategic omissions and additions." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Little_Libertarians_on_the_prairie" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Little Libertarians on the prairie">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"[...] we don’t actually know much about how to produce rapid economic growth -- conservatives may think they know (low taxes and all that), but there is no evidence to back up their certainty. And on the other hand, we know how to make a big difference to income distribution, especially how to reduce extreme poverty." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Growth_Versus_Distribution:_Hunger_Games" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Growth Versus Distribution: Hunger Games">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Low taxes do not produce more growth, though <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Democracy" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Democracy">democracy</a> does. Successful reduction of <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Poverty" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Poverty">poverty</a> by tax-funded programs does not reduce growth either. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Taxes_And_Growth" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Taxes And Growth">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Revisionist libertarian historian <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Jeffrey_Hummel&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Jeffrey Hummel (page does not exist)">Jeffrey Hummel</a> shows that <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Abraham_Lincoln&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Abraham Lincoln (page does not exist)">Abraham Lincoln</a> is the Great Statist Satan who transformed the US into a statist hellhole. How does that work with<a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=United_States" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="United States">libertarian claims that the late 19th century US was closest to libertarian</a>? <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Emancipating_Slaves,_Enslaving_Free_Men:_A_History_of_the_American_Civil_War" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Emancipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men: A History of the American Civil War">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"Created by individuals associated with the Franklin Center and fueled with right wing billionaire cash, Think Freely Media is a wingnut welfare organization. The “dark money ATM” behind the tea party movement created TFM to provide cushy positions and deals that are completely divorced from those “free market principles” that the tea party movement constantly espouses." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=A_Case_Study_In_Wingnut_Welfare:_Think_Freely_Media" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="A Case Study In Wingnut Welfare: Think Freely Media">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Political libertarianism is the most important libertarianism because we are continually exposed to it through the media. It is a mass market astroturf libertarianism. It has been a<a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Plutocracy" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Plutocracy">plutocratically</a>-funded effort since the 1930's and has been wildly successful in concentrating wealth since the 1980s. It is about redistributing society's wealth to the rich and calling that just and moral. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Political_Libertarianism" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Political Libertarianism">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
Mike Hubenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01371469964446567690noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8381613.post-48029778525553370642014-04-29T20:33:00.001-04:002014-04-29T20:33:31.192-04:00Libertarian NuzTyler Cowan has written <a href="http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/141218/tyler-cowen/capital-punishment">a review of Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-first Century</a> in Foreign Affairs. He does not provide a disclaimer that he has been employed for his entire career as an agent of the plutocrats Piketty is talking about. Knowing that, it's not surprising that he writes a highly critical review. Ethics, anybody?<br />
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Racist Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling has been fined $2.5 million, is banned from the NBA and may be forced to sell the team. If government did something like this, libertarians would be screaming their heads off. But because it is a private violation of his liberty to be a racist asshole, this unprecedented punitive action in a corporate kangaroo court must be OK! The "constitution" of the NBA has set up the commissioner to be judge, jury, and executioner with the effect of a binding arbitration decision that is enforceable in court. The most surprising thing about it all is that it is happening to a rich white man.<br />
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Libertarian racist Cliven Bundy and his domestic terrorist "militia" have gone so far that they've lost the support of Fox, the Tea Party and pretty much everybody who has two neurons to rub together. I can understand Obama's desire to avoid another Waco siege. Gone are the days when Washington could crush the Whiskey rebellion with impunity. It will just be a matter of outwaiting them: they certainly won't maintain their numbers over the winter. And of course, it would be interesting to see how well their line holds as their identities are established and they are threatened with charges of sedition.Mike Hubenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01371469964446567690noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8381613.post-79165383989966444112014-04-06T08:26:00.000-04:002014-04-06T08:26:03.478-04:00Koch's Anger Translator<dt style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Koch%27s_Anger_Translator" style="background-image: none; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Koch's Anger Translator"><span style="font-size: large;">Koch's Anger Translator</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i></i></span></dt>
<dd style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Charles Koch wrote a <a class="external text" href="http://online.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303978304579475860515021286" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">ludicrous screed</a> in the Wall Street Journal, a stand on dignity to excuse decades of plutocratic meddling in politics. A pseudonymous commenter "Mr." served as Anger Translator <a class="external text" href="http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2014/04/how-should-charles-koch-use-his-power.html?showComment=1396629650821#c3832244438525278767" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">at Noahpinion</a>.</dd>Mike Hubenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01371469964446567690noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8381613.post-87369116614514980652014-03-27T08:14:00.001-04:002014-03-27T08:14:07.435-04:00A Bitcoin Thought....I've felt strange every time I've seen <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=bitcoin&num=100&lr=&newwindow=1&safe=off&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=vxA0U6awBanksASyxICwDw&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAw&biw=1240&bih=1326">Bitcoin images</a>, and I wasn't sure why. Today it suddenly hit me.<br />
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Essentially every Bitcoin image portrays gold coins, often of large size or in large numbers. Symbols of wealth accumulated as a hoard.<br />
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But Bitcoin's main virtue is supposed to be as a medium of exchange: a better symbol would be a wallet or a checkbook. Or you could just use the B with the slashes the way we use $.<br />
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So why is it portrayed as gold coins? Because an image of something concrete gives idiots a way to believe in Bitcoins, which are just patterns of 0's and 1's. To invoke the speculative greed that revolves around the gold market. It's part of the marketing sucker game.<br />
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It repulses me the same way most advertising associates products with sex or wealth or beautiful people does. It repulses me because it's an attempt to exploit subconscious biases, rather than an honest attempt to sell the benefits of the product.Mike Hubenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01371469964446567690noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8381613.post-36027795005063263552014-03-25T19:47:00.003-04:002014-03-25T19:47:58.267-04:00What's new<dl style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.2em;">
<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">I've been spending a lot of time over the past few weeks investigating various extensions for improving the wiki. I'd love to have something that works like the CategoryTree extension but with my format, and I spent a while seeing if I could modify it: but that's rather hard. In the long run, I could, but for now I will stick with a simple category system. I may still switch to using SemanticWiki rather than DynamicPageList. It makes the entries and the wikitext look much cleaner, though a few tasks are more difficult.</span></dt>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">I've also entered 300 relevant books, though most of them are uncategorized and undescribed. Still, now I can use them easily in footnotes and bibliographies. I learned some python to use the xml dump from Delicious Library. That let me preformat wikitext for each book to cut and paste into pages. It took a lot of planning, but the entry got done in one day. I like python: it is much more legible than my old standby, perl. At some point in the future, when the Cite extension is released, I may switch from my current system to that.</span></dt>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">I've also started reorganizing categories to try to reduce the number shown on the front page and make finding things more obvious, even if nested more deeply.</span></dt>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Even so with all this work, I've entered another 40 or so links and categories.</span></dt>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 3/25/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/24/opinion/krugman-wealth-over-work.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Wealth Over Work</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Wealth_Over_Work" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Wealth Over Work">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"It seems safe to say that “Capital in the Twenty-First Century,” the magnum opus of the French economist Thomas Piketty, will be the most important economics book of the year -- and maybe of the decade." Paul Krugman's review. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Wealth_Over_Work" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Wealth Over Work">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 3/25/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://www.salon.com/2014/02/02/why_youre_wrong_about_communism_7_huge_misconceptions_about_it_and_capitalism/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Why you’re wrong about communism: 7 huge misconceptions about it (and capitalism)</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Why_you%E2%80%99re_wrong_about_communism:_7_huge_misconceptions_about_it_(and_capitalism)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Why you’re wrong about communism: 7 huge misconceptions about it (and capitalism)">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Most of what Americans think they know about capitalism and communism is total nonsense. Here's a clearer picture. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Why_you%E2%80%99re_wrong_about_communism:_7_huge_misconceptions_about_it_(and_capitalism)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Why you’re wrong about communism: 7 huge misconceptions about it (and capitalism)">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 3/25/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://www.pieria.co.uk/articles/unlearning_the_history_of_capitalism" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Unlearning The History Of Capitalism</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Unlearning_The_History_Of_Capitalism" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Unlearning The History Of Capitalism">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"Imagine if every time somebody expressed support for capitalism, they were immediately screamed down with death tolls from Colonial India, the Transatlantic Slave Trade and the worst of US foreign policy." A plea for the end of cold-war reflexive aversion to the word socialism. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Unlearning_The_History_Of_Capitalism" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Unlearning The History Of Capitalism">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 3/25/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://equitablegrowth.org/2014/03/23/2323/notes-for-debate-with-jeff-miron-on-marty-nemkos-radio-show-monday-focus-march-24-2014" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Notes for Debate with Jeff Miron on Marty Nemko’s Radio Show</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Notes_for_Debate_with_Jeff_Miron_on_Marty_Nemko%E2%80%99s_Radio_Show" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Notes for Debate with Jeff Miron on Marty Nemko’s Radio Show">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"How much does each of us owe to all the rest for there being here to help us? How much do others owe each of us? How much larger are humanity’s collective resources because each of us is around?" Also, 8 kinds of market failure. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Notes_for_Debate_with_Jeff_Miron_on_Marty_Nemko%E2%80%99s_Radio_Show" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Notes for Debate with Jeff Miron on Marty Nemko’s Radio Show">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 3/25/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2014/03/31/140331crbo_books_cassidy?currentPage=all" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Forces of Divergence: Is surging inequality endemic to capitalism?</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Forces_of_Divergence:_Is_surging_inequality_endemic_to_capitalism%3F" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Forces of Divergence: Is surging inequality endemic to capitalism?">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">An excellent short review of <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Thomas_Piketty&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Thomas Piketty (page does not exist)">Thomas Piketty</a>'s "<a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Capital_in_the_Twenty-First_Century" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Capital in the Twenty-First Century">Capital in the Twenty-First Century</a>". "But Piketty has written a book that nobody interested in a defining issue of our era can afford to ignore." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Forces_of_Divergence:_Is_surging_inequality_endemic_to_capitalism%3F" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Forces of Divergence: Is surging inequality endemic to capitalism?">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 3/25/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117121/gregory-mankiw-new-york-times-op-ed-obamacare-and-philosophy" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">The Philosophical Case Against Obamacare Is Here. And It's Weak.</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_Philosophical_Case_Against_Obamacare_Is_Here._And_It%27s_Weak." style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Philosophical Case Against Obamacare Is Here. And It's Weak.">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;"><a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Greg_Mankiw&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Greg Mankiw (page does not exist)">Greg Mankiw</a> makes a fool of himself in attempting the political philosophy of health care. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_Philosophical_Case_Against_Obamacare_Is_Here._And_It%27s_Weak." style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Philosophical Case Against Obamacare Is Here. And It's Weak.">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 3/25/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://www.technologyreview.com/news/525676/academics-spy-weaknesses-in-bitcoins-foundations/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Academics Spy Weaknesses in Bitcoin’s Foundations</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Academics_Spy_Weaknesses_in_Bitcoin%E2%80%99s_Foundations" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Academics Spy Weaknesses in Bitcoin’s Foundations">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Game theory suggests the rules governing Bitcoin may need to be updated if the currency is to endure. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Academics_Spy_Weaknesses_in_Bitcoin%E2%80%99s_Foundations" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Academics Spy Weaknesses in Bitcoin’s Foundations">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 3/25/2014:</span></i> <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Why_do_YOU_hate_freedom%3F" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Why do YOU hate freedom?">Why do YOU hate freedom?</a></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">A hunch of snarky reddit answers to this "when did you stop beting your wife" question. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Why_do_YOU_hate_freedom%3F" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Why do YOU hate freedom?">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 3/25/2014:</span></i> <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Some_Amazon_reviews_critical_of_FDR%27s_Folly" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Some Amazon reviews critical of FDR's Folly">Some Amazon reviews critical of FDR's Folly</a></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Often, the one-star reviews at Amazon identify the ideological bullshit: either the book author's bullshit or the reviewer's. This case is clear: the book author is full of it. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Some_Amazon_reviews_critical_of_FDR%27s_Folly" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Some Amazon reviews critical of FDR's Folly">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 3/25/2014:</span></i> <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=FDR%27s_Folly:_How_Roosevelt_and_His_New_Deal_Prolonged_the_Great_Depression" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="FDR's Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression">FDR's Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression</a></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">A classic of cherry-picking and misrepresenting history to suit ideology. Demonizes FDR, who then stands for all that libertarians hate. Four legs good, two legs baaaad. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=FDR%27s_Folly:_How_Roosevelt_and_His_New_Deal_Prolonged_the_Great_Depression" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="FDR's Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 3/24/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/3/thomas-piketty-capitalinequalityeconomics.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Trickle-Up Economics</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Trickle-Up_Economics" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Trickle-Up Economics">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">A review of <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Thomas_Piketty&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Thomas Piketty (page does not exist)">Thomas Piketty</a>'s "<a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Capital_in_the_Twenty-First_Century" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Capital in the Twenty-First Century">Capital in the Twenty-First Century</a>", which demonstrates why growing inequality is inevitable under policies sponsored by libertarians and the rest of the plutocratic right. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Trickle-Up_Economics" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Trickle-Up Economics">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 3/24/2014:</span></i> <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Capital_in_the_Twenty-First_Century" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Capital in the Twenty-First Century">Capital in the Twenty-First Century</a></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">This book shows how policies concentrate wealth in the hands of the .01%, increasing inequality. Libertarianism has always been sponsored by the extremely rich, and their positions have favored these policies or worse. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Capital_in_the_Twenty-First_Century" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Capital in the Twenty-First Century">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 3/22/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://robertnielsen21.wordpress.com/2013/03/02/the-worst-book-i-ever-read/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">The Worst Book I Ever Read</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_Worst_Book_I_Ever_Read" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Worst Book I Ever Read">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">" It was a horrendously argued book that relied on straw man arguments, ignoring the middle ground, a complete absence of evidence and mainly stating positions without even attempting to defend them. The only praise I have for the book is that it is mercifully short and easy to read." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_Worst_Book_I_Ever_Read" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Worst Book I Ever Read">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 3/22/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://robertnielsen21.wordpress.com/2013/07/11/capitalism-and-freedom/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Capitalism And Freedom (Robert Nielsen review)</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Capitalism_And_Freedom_(Robert_Nielsen_review)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Capitalism And Freedom (Robert Nielsen review)">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"Before I read the book, I knew I would not agree with it. Even still, I was shocked at how poor an argument Friedman makes and his complete aversion to using evidence to support his claims. His defence of discrimination is disgraceful and unbelievable." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Capitalism_And_Freedom_(Robert_Nielsen_review)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Capitalism And Freedom (Robert Nielsen review)">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 3/22/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://robertnielsen21.wordpress.com/2014/03/14/atlas-shrugged-is-a-ridiculous-book/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Atlas Shrugged Is A Ridiculous Book</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Atlas_Shrugged_Is_A_Ridiculous_Book" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Atlas Shrugged Is A Ridiculous Book">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"... it is a horrendous book containing cardboard characters, over necessarily long speeches, absurd plot lines and at least 500 pages more than it needs." "It is a combination of all the worst aspects of libertarianism, so much so that I’d imagine most libertarians are embarrassed by it." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Atlas_Shrugged_Is_A_Ridiculous_Book" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Atlas Shrugged Is A Ridiculous Book">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 3/22/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://robertnielsen21.wordpress.com/2014/03/22/why-taxation-is-not-theft/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Why Taxation Is Not Theft</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Why_Taxation_Is_Not_Theft" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Why Taxation Is Not Theft">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"Just as all political debates inevitably end with someone making a Hitler comparison, all debates with libertarians sooner or later involve the claim that taxation is theft...." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Why_Taxation_Is_Not_Theft" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Why Taxation Is Not Theft">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 3/19/2014:</span></i> <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=How_Class_War_Has_Impoverished_The_Middle_And_Lower_Classes" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="How Class War Has Impoverished The Middle And Lower Classes">How Class War Has Impoverished The Middle And Lower Classes</a></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Gradual changes in wages, opportunity, debt, risk, tax policy and other factors have badly hurt the vast majority of families over the past 40 years. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=How_Class_War_Has_Impoverished_The_Middle_And_Lower_Classes" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="How Class War Has Impoverished The Middle And Lower Classes">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 3/19/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://houseofdebt.org/2014/03/18/the-most-important-economic-chart.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">The Most Important Economic Chart</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_Most_Important_Economic_Chart" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Most Important Economic Chart">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"The gap between productivity and median real income is at an historic all-time high today." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_Most_Important_Economic_Chart" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Most Important Economic Chart">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 3/19/2014:</span></i> <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Voluntary_Failures" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Voluntary Failures">Voluntary Failures</a></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Just as there are <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Market_Failures&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Market Failures (page does not exist)">market failures</a> and <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Government_Failures&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Government Failures (page does not exist)">government failures</a>, there are also voluntary failures such as philanthropic insufficiency, philanthropic particularism and philanthropic paternalism. Where voluntary and market efforts fail, government should step up. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Voluntary_Failures" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Voluntary Failures">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 3/19/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://www.democracyjournal.org/32/the-voluntarism-fantasy.php?page=all" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">The Voluntarism Fantasy</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_Voluntarism_Fantasy" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Voluntarism Fantasy">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Libertarian stories of 19th century voluntary charity ignore the historical facts of how horribly insufficient that system was and how much it was supplemented by state and federal aid. The Great Depression destroyed most voluntary charity, and brought about <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Progressivism" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Progressivism">progressive</a> social insurance programs. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_Voluntarism_Fantasy" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Voluntarism Fantasy">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 3/17/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://www.skidelskyr.com/site/article/the-programmed-prospect-before-us/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">The Programmed Prospect Before Us</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_Programmed_Prospect_Before_Us" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Programmed Prospect Before Us">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;"><a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Robert_Skidelsky&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Robert Skidelsky (page does not exist)">Robert Skidelsky</a> reviews: <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Mindless:_Why_Smarter_Machines_Are_Making_Dumber_Humans&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Mindless: Why Smarter Machines Are Making Dumber Humans (page does not exist)">Mindless: Why Smarter Machines Are Making Dumber Humans</a>. “Scientific management” and “Computer Business Systems” are resulting in de-skilling of the worker and dehumanisation of the workers and the workplace. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_Programmed_Prospect_Before_Us" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Programmed Prospect Before Us">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 3/16/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/15/on-the-wrong-side-of-globalization" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">On the Wrong Side of Globalization</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=On_the_Wrong_Side_of_Globalization" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="On the Wrong Side of Globalization">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Trade agreements like the Trans-Pacific Partnership would make our problems worse. "Huge multinational corporations complain that inconsistent regulations make business costly. But most of the regulations, even if they are imperfect, are there for a reason: to protect workers, consumers, the economy and the environment." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=On_the_Wrong_Side_of_Globalization" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="On the Wrong Side of Globalization">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 3/16/2014:</span></i> <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Globalization,_Free_Trade_and_Economic_Freedom" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Globalization, Free Trade and Economic Freedom">Globalization, Free Trade and Economic Freedom</a></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Code for "let business run the world: the heck with the populace." The anti-liberal dominance of plutocratic property and business over popular sovereignty. Historically, we could extend these concepts to include buying, owning, and selling slaves. The arguments made then were the same. Used by propagandists to trump other freedoms. Also known as economic liberty. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Globalization,_Free_Trade_and_Economic_Freedom" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Globalization, Free Trade and Economic Freedom">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 3/13/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://jme.bmj.com/content/40/3/145.full.pdf+html" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Imposing options on people in poverty: the harm of a live donor organ market</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Imposing_options_on_people_in_poverty:_the_harm_of_a_live_donor_organ_market" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Imposing options on people in poverty: the harm of a live donor organ market">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"If a free market in organs was permitted and became widespread, then it is reasonable to assume that your organs would soon enough become economic resources like any other, in the context of the market. Selling your organs would become something that is simply expected of you as and when financial need arises. Our new ‘option’ can thus easily be transformed into a social or legal demand, and it can drastically change the attitudes that others adopt towards you." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Imposing_options_on_people_in_poverty:_the_harm_of_a_live_donor_organ_market" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Imposing options on people in poverty: the harm of a live donor organ market">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 3/13/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.21.3.37" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Repugnance as a Constraint on Markets</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Repugnance_as_a_Constraint_on_Markets" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Repugnance as a Constraint on Markets">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;"><a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Alvin_Roth&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Alvin Roth (page does not exist)">Alvin Roth</a> presents an even-handed overview of <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Repugnant_Markets" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Repugnant Markets">repugnant market</a> issues and arguments. With special reference to markets for kidneys. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Repugnance_as_a_Constraint_on_Markets" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Repugnance as a Constraint on Markets">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Some markets (or potential markets) are offensive for a variety of reasons. Markets for kidneys, for example. They may involve objectification, coercion, slippery slopes, or undermining of important institutions. Libertarians often say marketize anyhow, while ignoring non-market alternatives. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Repugnant_Markets" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Repugnant Markets">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 3/12/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/03/my-life-as-a-retail-worker-nasty-brutish-and-poor/284332/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">My Life as a Retail Worker: Nasty, Brutish, and Poor</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=My_Life_as_a_Retail_Worker:_Nasty,_Brutish,_and_Poor" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="My Life as a Retail Worker: Nasty, Brutish, and Poor">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 3/11/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://econfaculty.gmu.edu/bcaplan/autobio.htm" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Intellectual Autobiography of Bryan Caplan</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Intellectual_Autobiography_of_Bryan_Caplan" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Intellectual Autobiography of Bryan Caplan">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"It began with Ayn Rand, as it proverbially does...." And goes downhill from there. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Intellectual_Autobiography_of_Bryan_Caplan" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Intellectual Autobiography of Bryan Caplan">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"So, the libertarian solution to the problem of inequality is to socially persecute anyone who talks about inequality?" A strange notion of liberty. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_libertarian_solution_to_inequality" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The libertarian solution to inequality">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 3/11/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://www.cogitamusblog.com/2011/04/friday-open-thread-dont-take-advice-from-right-wingers-edition.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Friday Open Thread (Don't Take Advice from Right Wingers Edition)</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Friday_Open_Thread_(Don%27t_Take_Advice_from_Right_Wingers_Edition)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Friday Open Thread (Don't Take Advice from Right Wingers Edition)">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"Glibertarian economist Bryan Caplan -- who may in fact be the world's stupidest serious academic -- is on npr this morning to promote his book arguing that we should all have more children. Magically omitted from his discussion though is the cost of children. And he's a fucking economist." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Friday_Open_Thread_(Don%27t_Take_Advice_from_Right_Wingers_Edition)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Friday Open Thread (Don't Take Advice from Right Wingers Edition)">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 3/11/2014:</span></i> <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Selfish_Reasons_to_Have_More_Kids:_Why_Being_a_Great_Parent_is_Less_Work_and_More_Fun_Than_You_Think" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids: Why Being a Great Parent is Less Work and More Fun Than You Think">Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids: Why Being a Great Parent is Less Work and More Fun Than You Think</a></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">This book demonstrates two principles. First, extend libertarian and economic ideology to cover everything you can, no matter how ridiculous. Second, no matter how stupid, all repetition of propaganda points promotes ideology. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Selfish_Reasons_to_Have_More_Kids:_Why_Being_a_Great_Parent_is_Less_Work_and_More_Fun_Than_You_Think" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids: Why Being a Great Parent is Less Work and More Fun Than You Think">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 3/10/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://mattbruenig.com/2014/03/07/what-do-voluntary/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">What do voluntary mean?</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=What_do_voluntary_mean%3F" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="What do voluntary mean?">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Matt Bruenig makes clear that following antidiscrimination rules for business is exactly as voluntary as following property rules for business. Because you have a choice of not being in that business. And if one violates <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Self-Ownership" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Self-Ownership">self-ownership</a>, so does the other. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=What_do_voluntary_mean%3F" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="What do voluntary mean?">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Inequality of outcome is a drag on economic growth according to recent studies by the IMF. "In short, what’s good for the 1 percent isn’t good for America. And we don’t have to keep living in a new Gilded Age if we don’t want to." <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Liberty,_Equality,_Efficiency" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Liberty, Equality, Efficiency">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Libertarians (such as <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=John_Stossel" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="John Stossel">John Stossel</a>) are renowned for science denialism. They have a long and bad history of misrepresenting science on tobacco, global warming and other issues. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Science" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Science">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 3/09/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://www.noblesoul.com/orc/critics/libertarianism.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Objectivism, Libertarianism and Anarchism</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Objectivism,_Libertarianism_and_Anarchism" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Objectivism, Libertarianism and Anarchism">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">It's a three-way cage match to determine which ideology is the true standard bearer for liberty! An index of 25 webbed articles at the <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Objectivism_Reference_Center&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Objectivism Reference Center (page does not exist)">Objectivism Reference Center</a>. A pox on all their houses. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Objectivism,_Libertarianism_and_Anarchism" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Objectivism, Libertarianism and Anarchism">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 3/09/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://mythopedia.mediamatters.org/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Mythopedia</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Mythopedia" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Mythopedia">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">The Dictionary of Conservative Lies. A project of <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Media_Matters_for_America&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Media Matters for America (page does not exist)">Media Matters for America</a>. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Mythopedia" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Mythopedia">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 3/09/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/03/doomsday-cult-of-bitcoin.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">The Doomsday Cult of Bitcoin</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_Doomsday_Cult_of_Bitcoin" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Doomsday Cult of Bitcoin">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"Ask any of these Bitcoin believers about any of the recent incidents, and they will defend the currency with religious fervor. [...] But these are head-fakes, meant to distract from Bitcoin's disastrous move to the mainstream while consoling believers about the current state of affairs. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_Doomsday_Cult_of_Bitcoin" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Doomsday Cult of Bitcoin">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 3/09/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/02/26/in-americas-war-on-poverty-the-free-market-is-awol/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">In America’s War on Poverty, the free market is AWOL</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=In_America%E2%80%99s_War_on_Poverty,_the_free_market_is_AWOL" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="In America’s War on Poverty, the free market is AWOL">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">The expanded safety net has contributed significantly to reducing poverty in America over the past half-century; but our market economy has not. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=In_America%E2%80%99s_War_on_Poverty,_the_free_market_is_AWOL" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="In America’s War on Poverty, the free market is AWOL">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 3/09/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://www.henrymakow.com/libertarianism_as_an_illuminat.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Proof Libertarianism is an Illuminati Ploy</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Proof_Libertarianism_is_an_Illuminati_Ploy" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Proof Libertarianism is an Illuminati Ploy">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"Libertarianism and its twin sister <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Austrian_Economics" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Austrian Economics">Austrian Economics</a> were invented by the <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Money_Power" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Money Power">Money Power</a> to be the opposite of Communism in a dialectic." It's the Illuminati Jewish bankers conspiracy, I tell you! <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Proof_Libertarianism_is_an_Illuminati_Ploy" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Proof Libertarianism is an Illuminati Ploy">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 3/09/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://www.henrymakow.com/the_satanic_core_of_libertaria.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">The Satanic Core of Libertarianism</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_Satanic_Core_of_Libertarianism" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Satanic Core of Libertarianism">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Libertarianism is part of the Illuminati Dialectic with Communism: "Essentially, two seemingly opposed forces advance the same goal: a world police state governed by an oligarchy of billionaire Satanists." A paranoid conspiracy rant about <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Bernard_de_Mandeville&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Bernard de Mandeville (page does not exist)">Bernard de Mandeville</a>. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=The_Satanic_Core_of_Libertarianism" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Satanic Core of Libertarianism">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 3/09/2014:</span></i> <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Crank_Criticisms_Of_Libertarianism" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Crank Criticisms Of Libertarianism">Crank Criticisms Of Libertarianism</a></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">Beware of damaging your brain reading these. The authors are serious believers in paranoid conspiracy theories who want to prove that everything you know is wrong. Read them for the lulz. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Crank_Criticisms_Of_Libertarianism" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Crank Criticisms Of Libertarianism">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 3/09/2014:</span></i> <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Money_Power" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Money Power">Money Power</a></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">"The Money Power" is an old populist term for a conspiracy of Jewish bankers to control currencies and finance. Gold was the defense against this paranoid theory. It is often a dog whistle in support of goldbuggery. <a href="http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Money_Power" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Money Power">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
Mike Hubenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01371469964446567690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8381613.post-40967705778549664412014-03-10T10:19:00.002-04:002014-03-10T16:30:03.105-04:00The new wiki-based site may be offline for a while today...I need to do some upgrading: I'm about 2 years behind.<br />
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There, it is functional again. If anybody spots something not working, let me know please.Mike Hubenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01371469964446567690noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8381613.post-82372460054355913412014-02-25T14:26:00.000-05:002014-02-25T14:26:22.394-05:00Bitcoin SchadenfreudeThose Bitcoin Masters Of The World have taken another drubbing today as Mt. Gox closed amid claims that almost a million bit coins have been stolen.<br />
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But I hardly think that will kill Bitcoin.<br />
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The Bitcoin jingoists are proclaiming the end of amateurism in Bitcoin exchanges, as if this will be the last theft and shutdown. Anybody who believes that is an idiot. Just think about it: billions in value in bitcoins just waiting to be stolen by anybody. Russia and China (and other nations) have huge digital warfare operations that could target those bitcoins, either officially or extracurricularly. No matter how cryptographically safe, systems can be penetrated through hardware or personnel. And no government guarantees! I wonder who will write them insurance knowing this?<br />
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But as I've pointed out before, Bitcoin will eventually be swamped with similar currencies and lose value until it is replaced by government-backed currencies.Mike Hubenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01371469964446567690noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8381613.post-17771276927121796062014-02-22T20:11:00.000-05:002014-02-22T20:11:21.560-05:00What's new<dl style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.2em;">
<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 2/21/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02/21/hearsay-economics-2/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">HearSay Economics</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=HearSay_Economics" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="HearSay Economics">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">"[...] the fallacy Keynes called Say’s Law was and is a powerful force in economic discourse, seriously hampering our ability to respond rationally to economic troubles." <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=HearSay_Economics" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="HearSay Economics">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">The doctrine that shortfalls in overall demand aren’t possible, because money has to be spent on something. Debunked strongly by Keynes, yet still strongly held by many<a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Chicago_School&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Chicago School (page does not exist)">Chicago School</a> economists and others. <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Say%27s_Law" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Say's Law">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 2/20/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://www.rationalrevolution.net/articles/capitalism_evolution.htm#Defining_capitalism" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">Defining Capitalism</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Defining_Capitalism" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Defining Capitalism">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">A section of "Understanding Capitalism" by Geoff Price. Capitalism is a form of collectivist production, differing primarily in how the products of collective labor are distributed: between owners and workers. Well written and easy to follow. <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Defining_Capitalism" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Defining Capitalism">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 2/20/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://economixcomix.com/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">Economix web site and blog</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Economix_web_site_and_blog" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Economix web site and blog">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">"Economix is a graphic novel by Michael Goodwin, illustrated by Dan E. Burr, that explains the economy. More than a cartoon version of a textbook, Economix gives the whole story of the economy, from the rise of capitalism to Occupy Wall Street." <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Economix_web_site_and_blog" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Economix web site and blog">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 2/20/2014:</span></i> <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Economix:_How_Our_Economy_Works_(and_Doesn%27t_Work),_in_Words_and_Pictures" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Economix: How Our Economy Works (and Doesn't Work), in Words and Pictures">Economix: How Our Economy Works (and Doesn't Work), in Words and Pictures</a></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">"Economix is a graphic novel by <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Michael_Goodwin&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Michael Goodwin (page does not exist)">Michael Goodwin</a>, illustrated by Dan E. Burr, that explains the economy. More than a cartoon version of a textbook, Economix gives the whole story of the economy, from the rise of capitalism to Occupy Wall Street." <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Economix:_How_Our_Economy_Works_(and_Doesn%27t_Work),_in_Words_and_Pictures" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Economix: How Our Economy Works (and Doesn't Work), in Words and Pictures">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">An excellent reading list for understanding how politics and economics interact. From the graphic-novel style <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Economix&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Economix (page does not exist)">Economix</a>. <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Books_used_as_sources_during_the_writing_of_Economix" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Books used as sources during the writing of Economix">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 2/20/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://economixcomix.com/home/tpp/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">The TransPacific Partnership And "Free Trade"</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=The_TransPacific_Partnership_And_%22Free_Trade%22" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The TransPacific Partnership And "Free Trade"">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">A short, clear, graphic-novel introduction to the how the wealthy collect the benefits of <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Free_Trade" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Free Trade">Free Trade</a> and the rest of us bear the costs. It includes the loss of national sovreignty through trade agreements that force <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Deregulation" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Deregulation">deregulation</a>. <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=The_TransPacific_Partnership_And_%22Free_Trade%22" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The TransPacific Partnership And "Free Trade"">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 2/20/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2014/02/speaking-of-speeches.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">Speaking of speeches</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Speaking_of_speeches" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Speaking of speeches">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">The conservative movement eventually succeeded in destroying that label and making it something shameful for average Americans to wear openly. ("I'm not a liberal or anything, but ...") So we became progressives. <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Speaking_of_speeches" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Speaking of speeches">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 2/20/2014:</span></i> <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Switzerland" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Switzerland">Switzerland</a></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">An entrepot with easily defensible mountainous borders. Universal conscription and very strict immigration policies. <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Switzerland" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Switzerland">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 2/20/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2011/12/no-true-libertarianism-fallacy.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">The "No True Libertarianism" fallacy</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=The_%22No_True_Libertarianism%22_fallacy" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The "No True Libertarianism" fallacy">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">Libertarians cannot explain why there has never been a libertarian society, and find excuses to explain that existing small governments are not "true libertarianism". The real reason is that libertarianism, like communism, is contrary to human nature. <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=The_%22No_True_Libertarianism%22_fallacy" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The "No True Libertarianism" fallacy">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 2/20/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://content.ksg.harvard.edu/blog/jeff_frankels_weblog/2014/02/18/the-rise-and-fall-of-cap-and-trade/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">The Rise and Fall of Cap-and-Trade</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=The_Rise_and_Fall_of_Cap-and-Trade" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Rise and Fall of Cap-and-Trade">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">"The problem is not that cap and trade is a theoretical proposal from ivory-tower economists that cannot survive application in the real world. To the contrary, its performance in action surpassed expectations..." <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=The_Rise_and_Fall_of_Cap-and-Trade" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Rise and Fall of Cap-and-Trade">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">A very successful "deregulation" strategy that replaces government regulation and Pigouvian taxes on harmful externalities with government-limited, salable rights to externalities. This brings market efficiency to regulation; thus businesses hate cap and trade. <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Cap_And_Trade" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Cap And Trade">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 2/19/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://socialdemocracy21stcentury.blogspot.com/2014/02/mark-up-pricing-in-12-nations-empirical.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">Mark-up Pricing in 11 Nations and the Eurozone: the Empirical Evidence</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Mark-up_Pricing_in_11_Nations_and_the_Eurozone:_the_Empirical_Evidence" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Mark-up Pricing in 11 Nations and the Eurozone: the Empirical Evidence">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">There is a mountain of empirical evidence available for many years now that shows that administered prices are the majority of prices in most modern market economies. <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Mark-up_Pricing_in_11_Nations_and_the_Eurozone:_the_Empirical_Evidence" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Mark-up Pricing in 11 Nations and the Eurozone: the Empirical Evidence">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 2/19/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://socialdemocracy21stcentury.blogspot.com/2014/01/lee-on-three-types-of-mark-up-prices.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">Lee on the Three Types of Mark-up Prices</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Lee_on_the_Three_Types_of_Mark-up_Prices" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Lee on the Three Types of Mark-up Prices">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">A price that is set by a firm on the basis of average unit costs of production plus a profit mark-up is an “administered price.” These prices are also sometimes called “mark-up prices,” “average cost prices,” “full cost prices,” “normal cost prices,” or “cost-plus prices.” <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Lee_on_the_Three_Types_of_Mark-up_Prices" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Lee on the Three Types of Mark-up Prices">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">The widespread real-world use of mark-up prices, also known as administered prices, contradict the assumptions of marginalist theory of prices and many DSGE models based on marginal costs. <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Mark-up_Prices" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Mark-up Prices">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 2/19/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://spot.colorado.edu/~huemer/rand.htm" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">Why I Am Not an Objectivist</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Why_I_Am_Not_an_Objectivist" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Why I Am Not an Objectivist">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">Libertarian philosopher <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Michael_Huemer&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Michael Huemer (page does not exist)">Michael Huemer</a> accepts all but one of <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Ayn_Rand" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Ayn Rand">Ayn Rand</a>'s five major <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Objectivism" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Objectivism">Objectivist</a> claims: he does not agree that "Every person should always be selfish." <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Why_I_Am_Not_an_Objectivist" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Why I Am Not an Objectivist">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 2/17/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02/16/fighting-the-last-macro-war-slightly-wonkish/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">Fighting the Last Macro War? (Slightly Wonkish)</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Fighting_the_Last_Macro_War%3F_(Slightly_Wonkish)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Fighting the Last Macro War? (Slightly Wonkish)">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">Real Business Cycle Theory did well with the stagflation crisis, but didn't help with disinflation, the financial crisis or the persistently depressed economy. <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Fighting_the_Last_Macro_War%3F_(Slightly_Wonkish)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Fighting the Last Macro War? (Slightly Wonkish)">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">A freshwater, <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Chicago_Economics" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Chicago Economics">Chicago School</a> theory that had one major success in the '70s predicting/explaining stagflation. No successes since then, left behind by the resurgence of various Keynesian schools. <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Real_Business_Cycle_Theory" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Real Business Cycle Theory">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">The straightforward arguments for and defenses of basic income. <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=What%27s_Wrong_With_a_Free_Lunch%3F" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="What's Wrong With a Free Lunch?">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 2/16/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/inequality-by-design-its-not-just-talent-and-hard-work" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">Inequality By Design: It Is Not Just Talent and Hard Work</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Inequality_By_Design:_It_Is_Not_Just_Talent_and_Hard_Work" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Inequality By Design: It Is Not Just Talent and Hard Work">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">"If the 1 percent are able to extract vast sums from the economy it is because we have structured the economy for this purpose. It could easily be structured differently, but the 1 percent and its defenders aren't interested in changing things." <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Inequality_By_Design:_It_Is_Not_Just_Talent_and_Hard_Work" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Inequality By Design: It Is Not Just Talent and Hard Work">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 2/15/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2014/02/14/the-tom-perkins-system/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">The Tom Perkins system</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=The_Tom_Perkins_system" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Tom Perkins system">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">Libertarians often suggest one dollar = one vote schemes. Here's a satiric set of alternatives that illustrate the class interest in such proposals. <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=The_Tom_Perkins_system" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Tom Perkins system">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 2/13/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/marxism-of-the-right/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">Marxism of the Right</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Marxism_of_the_Right" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Marxism of the Right">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">"The most fundamental problem with libertarianism is very simple: freedom, though a good thing, is simply not the only good thing in life." <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Marxism_of_the_Right" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Marxism of the Right">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">There are numerous varieties of libertarianism, so no one description will suffice. Here are some overviews and classifications that will give you a broader picture of libertarianism.<a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Descriptions_Of_Libertarianism" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Descriptions Of Libertarianism">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 2/13/2014:</span></i> <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Opposing_Libertarianism" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Opposing Libertarianism">Opposing Libertarianism</a></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">Opposing evangelical libertarianism is easy, but there's lots to learn to do it effectively. Here is an overview of some of what you would want to know. <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Opposing_Libertarianism" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Opposing Libertarianism">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 2/13/2014:</span></i> <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Men_With_Guns" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Men With Guns">Men With Guns</a></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">Oh, horror! Laws are enforced by men with guns! But all rights in any social system (including anarchism) are enforced coercively. And isn't it funny that the same <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Constitution&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Constitution (page does not exist)">Constitution</a> that libertarians claim supports private gun ownership clearly empowers the state to enforce laws. <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Men_With_Guns" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Men With Guns">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 2/13/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://gene-callahan.blogspot.com/2014/02/no-plato-did-not-think-taxes-were-some.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">No, Plato Did Not Think Taxes Were Some Sort of Permitted Theft</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=No,_Plato_Did_Not_Think_Taxes_Were_Some_Sort_of_Permitted_Theft" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="No, Plato Did Not Think Taxes Were Some Sort of Permitted Theft">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">Claims that "<a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Statism" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Statism">Statists</a> think that theft is okay when the government does it" are wrong: they think all citizens of a polity have an obligation to contribute to public expenses. <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=No,_Plato_Did_Not_Think_Taxes_Were_Some_Sort_of_Permitted_Theft" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="No, Plato Did Not Think Taxes Were Some Sort of Permitted Theft">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 2/13/2014:</span></i> <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Taxation_Is_Theft" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Taxation Is Theft">Taxation Is Theft</a></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">Libertarians call taxes bad names. But all voluntary residents have an obligation to contribute to public expenses. The obligation is voluntarily accepted as a condition of residence, unless emigration is prevented. Just like rent is voluntarily accepted by residence. <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Taxation_Is_Theft" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Taxation Is Theft">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 2/13/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://crooksandliars.com/2014/02/meet-fracking-billionaires-farris-and-dan" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">Meet The Other Billionaire Brothers Funding Right-Wing Causes</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Meet_The_Other_Billionaire_Brothers_Funding_Right-Wing_Causes" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Meet The Other Billionaire Brothers Funding Right-Wing Causes">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">"Fracking billionaires Farris and Dan Wilks are using their wealth to fund ultra-religious right wing anti-gay, anti-choice groups." <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Meet_The_Other_Billionaire_Brothers_Funding_Right-Wing_Causes" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Meet The Other Billionaire Brothers Funding Right-Wing Causes">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 2/12/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://socialdemocracy21stcentury.blogspot.com/2014/02/steve-keen-debunking-economics-chapter.html#comment-form" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">Steve Keen, Debunking Economics, Chapter 6: Wages</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Steve_Keen,_Debunking_Economics,_Chapter_6:_Wages" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Steve Keen, Debunking Economics, Chapter 6: Wages">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;"><a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Steve_Keen&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Steve Keen (page does not exist)">Steve Keen</a> lists 5 ways labor is different than the usual commodities. "The problem Keen identifies here is that labour supply curves need not be well behaved." <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Steve_Keen,_Debunking_Economics,_Chapter_6:_Wages" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Steve Keen, Debunking Economics, Chapter 6: Wages">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">Standard neoclassical analysis assumes demand curves are necessarily downward-sloping and supply curves upwards-sloping. The real world doesn't necessarily agree. <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Assuming_Slopes_of_Curves" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Assuming Slopes of Curves">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 2/12/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/dfe218d6-9038-11e3-a776-00144feab7de.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">Enslave the robots and free the poor</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Enslave_the_robots_and_free_the_poor" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Enslave the robots and free the poor">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;"><a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Martin_Wolf&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Martin Wolf (page does not exist)">Martin Wolf</a> at the Financial Times says that because of technological unemployment "[...] we will need to redistribute income and wealth. Such redistribution could take the form of a basic income for every adult, together with funding of education and training at any stage in a person’s life." <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Enslave_the_robots_and_free_the_poor" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Enslave the robots and free the poor">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">Shows how today’s dominant economic theories of <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Economic_Efficiency&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Economic Efficiency (page does not exist)">economic efficiency</a> and wages evolved, how they explicitly favor the rich over the poor, and why they’re not the only -- or best -- options. <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Economics_for_the_Rest_of_Us:_Debunking_the_Science_That_Makes_Life_Dismal" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Economics for the Rest of Us: Debunking the Science That Makes Life Dismal">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">A propaganda theme at Marginal Revolution blog. Be amazed at the triumph of markets everywhere, but don't notice that they are often missing, noxious or poor substitutes for government. <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Markets_in_Everything" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Markets in Everything">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">Capitalism (and <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Entrepreneur&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Entrepreneur (page does not exist)">entrepreneurship</a>) are based upon the coercion that creates rights. Capitalism, like fire, is most valuable when it is used for desired purposes (<a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Deregulation" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Deregulation">regulated</a>), not burning indiscriminately. For example, as part of <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Mixed_Economy" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Mixed Economy">Mixed Economy</a> or <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Social_Democracy" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Social Democracy">Social Democracy</a>. <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Capitalism" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Capitalism">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">Existing markets are not spontaneous: they are social <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Institutions" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Institutions">institutions</a> that have been often created, heavily modified and regulated by <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Governments&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Governments (page does not exist)">governments</a> throughout history. Because markets are amoral, they need <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Regulation&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Regulation (page does not exist)">regulation</a>. <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Markets" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Markets">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 2/11/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/koch-backed-political-network-built-to-shield-donors-raised-400-million-in-2012-elections/2014/01/05/9e7cfd9a-719b-11e3-9389-09ef9944065e_story.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">Koch-backed political coalition, designed to shield donors, raised $400 million in 2012</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Koch-backed_political_coalition,_designed_to_shield_donors,_raised_$400_million_in_2012" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Koch-backed political coalition, designed to shield donors, raised $400 million in 2012">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">"The political network spearheaded by conservative billionaires Charles and David Koch has expanded into a far-reaching operation of unrivaled complexity, built around a maze of groups that cloaks its donors, according to an analysis of new tax returns and other documents." <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Koch-backed_political_coalition,_designed_to_shield_donors,_raised_$400_million_in_2012" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Koch-backed political coalition, designed to shield donors, raised $400 million in 2012">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 2/11/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/inside-the-koch-backed-political-donor-network/2014/01/05/94719296-7661-11e3-b1c5-739e63e9c9a7_graphic.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">Inside the $400-million political network backed by the Kochs</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Inside_the_$400-million_political_network_backed_by_the_Kochs" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Inside the $400-million political network backed by the Kochs">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">A diagram of the organization and enormous flows of money in one section of the <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Kochtopus" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Kochtopus">Kochtopus</a>. <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Inside_the_$400-million_political_network_backed_by_the_Kochs" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Inside the $400-million political network backed by the Kochs">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 2/11/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://www.thenation.com/article/178241/how-crowdworkers-became-ghosts-digital-machine?page=full" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">How Crowdworkers Became the Ghosts in the Digital Machine</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=How_Crowdworkers_Became_the_Ghosts_in_the_Digital_Machine" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="How Crowdworkers Became the Ghosts in the Digital Machine">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">"Since 2005, Amazon has helped create one of the most exploited workforces no one has ever seen." "According to critics, Amazon’s Mechanical Turk may have created the most unregulated labor marketplace that has ever existed." <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=How_Crowdworkers_Became_the_Ghosts_in_the_Digital_Machine" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="How Crowdworkers Became the Ghosts in the Digital Machine">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">The <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Ideology&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Ideology (page does not exist)">ideological</a> universe of libertarians: how to view them with less distortion from propaganda. <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Liberty,_Rights,_Property,_Coercion,_Government,_Markets_and_Capitalism" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Liberty, Rights, Property, Coercion, Government, Markets and Capitalism">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">An explanation of <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Shibboleth" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Shibboleth">shibboleth</a> (a phrase identifying one as a member of a community) and its context with examples from Republicans. <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Shibboleths" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Shibboleths">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 2/09/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://www.voxeu.org/article/shale-gas-and-housing-market" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">The housing-market impacts of shale-gas development</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=The_housing-market_impacts_of_shale-gas_development" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The housing-market impacts of shale-gas development">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">"... fracking is controversial due to the local externalities it creates – particularly because of the potential for groundwater contamination. This column presents evidence on the size of these externalities from a recent study of house prices. The effect attributable to groundwater contamination risk varies from 10% to 22% of the value of the house, depending on its distance from the shale gas well. <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=The_housing-market_impacts_of_shale-gas_development" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The housing-market impacts of shale-gas development">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 2/09/2014:</span></i> <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Environmental_Regulation" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Environmental Regulation">Environmental Regulation</a></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">Most economic activity has <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Externalities&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Externalities (page does not exist)">externalities</a> for <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Commons&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Commons (page does not exist)">commons</a>, a major <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Market_failure&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Market failure (page does not exist)">market failure</a>. Environmental regulation is a most cost-effective solution than torts, whether it is accomplished by permits, laws, or community governance. <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Environmental_Regulation" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Environmental Regulation">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 2/09/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://pando.com/2014/01/23/the-techtopus-how-silicon-valleys-most-celebrated-ceos-conspired-to-drive-down-100000-tech-engineers-wages/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">The Techtopus: How Silicon Valley’s most celebrated CEOs conspired to drive down 100,000 tech engineers’ wages</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=The_Techtopus:_How_Silicon_Valley%E2%80%99s_most_celebrated_CEOs_conspired_to_drive_down_100,000_tech_engineers%E2%80%99_wages" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Techtopus: How Silicon Valley’s most celebrated CEOs conspired to drive down 100,000 tech engineers’ wages">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">A conspiracy to fix wages by chief executives of Apple, Google, Lucasfilm, Pixar, Adobe, Intuit and Intel has been certified as a class-action lawsuit. "For all of the high-minded talk of post-industrial technotopia and Silicon Valley as worker’s paradise, what we see here in stark ugly detail is how the same old world scams and rules are still operative." <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=The_Techtopus:_How_Silicon_Valley%E2%80%99s_most_celebrated_CEOs_conspired_to_drive_down_100,000_tech_engineers%E2%80%99_wages" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Techtopus: How Silicon Valley’s most celebrated CEOs conspired to drive down 100,000 tech engineers’ wages">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 2/08/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://gene-callahan.blogspot.com/2010/05/confessions-of-recovering-ideologue.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">Confessions of a Recovering Ideologue, Part I</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Confessions_of_a_Recovering_Ideologue,_Part_I" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Confessions of a Recovering Ideologue, Part I">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 2/08/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://gene-callahan.blogspot.com/2010/05/homesteadin-is-place-for-me.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">Homesteadin' Is the Place for Me</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Homesteadin%27_Is_the_Place_for_Me" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Homesteadin' Is the Place for Me">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 2/08/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://gene-callahan.blogspot.com/2010/09/say-what-murray.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">Say What, Murray?</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Say_What,_Murray%3F" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Say What, Murray?">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 2/08/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://gene-callahan.blogspot.com/2010/05/look-at-violence-inherent-in-system.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">Look at the Violence Inherent in the System!</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Look_at_the_Violence_Inherent_in_the_System!" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Look at the Violence Inherent in the System!">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">Libertarian <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Gene_Callahan&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Gene Callahan (page does not exist)">Gene Callahan</a> points out that private property is a social invention, which explains why some nations have "trespass" where others have "right to wander". <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Look_at_the_Violence_Inherent_in_the_System!" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Look at the Violence Inherent in the System!">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 2/08/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://www.kentlaw.edu/perritt/blog/2007/12/some-fundamental-legal-conceptions-as.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">Some Fundamental Legal Conceptions as Applied in Judicial Reasoning</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Some_Fundamental_Legal_Conceptions_as_Applied_in_Judicial_Reasoning" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Some Fundamental Legal Conceptions as Applied in Judicial Reasoning">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">The original 1913 legal article by <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Wesley_Newcomb_Hohfeld&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld (page does not exist)">Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld</a> that helped clarify legal thought by distinguishing right, duty, privilege, no-right, power, liability, immunity and disability.<a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Some_Fundamental_Legal_Conceptions_as_Applied_in_Judicial_Reasoning" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Some Fundamental Legal Conceptions as Applied in Judicial Reasoning">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 2/08/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://www.kentlaw.edu/perritt/blog/2007/12/hohfeldian-primer.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">A Hohfeldian Primer</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=A_Hohfeldian_Primer" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="A Hohfeldian Primer">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">A complete but difficult introduction that links to the original text of <i><a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Some_Fundamental_Legal_Conceptions_as_Applied_in_Judicial_Reasoning" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Some Fundamental Legal Conceptions as Applied in Judicial Reasoning">Some Fundamental Legal Conceptions as Applied in Judicial Reasoning</a></i> to explain the ideas. <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=A_Hohfeldian_Primer" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="A Hohfeldian Primer">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 2/08/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://legaltheorylexicon.blogspot.com/2004/05/legal-theory-lexicon-034.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">Legal Theory Lexicon 034: Hohfeld Introduction</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Legal_Theory_Lexicon_034:_Hohfeld_Introduction" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Legal Theory Lexicon 034: Hohfeld Introduction">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">A brief introduction that uses the terms claim rights, liberty rights, authority rights, and immunity rights. While it identifies the correlates, it does not mention the jural opposites.<a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Legal_Theory_Lexicon_034:_Hohfeld_Introduction" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Legal Theory Lexicon 034: Hohfeld Introduction">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 2/08/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://law.gsu.edu/wedmundson/Syllabi/Hohfeld.pdf" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/document.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 12px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">Rights Theory handout: Hohfeld's Fundamental Legal Conceptions</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Rights_Theory_handout:_Hohfeld%27s_Fundamental_Legal_Conceptions" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Rights Theory handout: Hohfeld's Fundamental Legal Conceptions">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">One page of tables with jural opposites and correlates, and then their paraphrased definitions. The paraphrases change "right" into "claim". <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Rights_Theory_handout:_Hohfeld%27s_Fundamental_Legal_Conceptions" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Rights Theory handout: Hohfeld's Fundamental Legal Conceptions">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld created the standard legal classification of right, duty, privilege, no-right, power, liability, immunity and disability in his 1913 article <i><a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Some_Fundamental_Legal_Conceptions_as_Applied_in_Judicial_Reasoning" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Some Fundamental Legal Conceptions as Applied in Judicial Reasoning">Some Fundamental Legal Conceptions as Applied in Judicial Reasoning</a></i>. (Privilege means liberty.) Libertarians (and lay people in general) are usually ignorant of these important definitions. <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Hohfeld%E2%80%99s_typology_of_rights" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Hohfeld’s typology of rights">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 2/07/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://socialdemocracy21stcentury.blogspot.com/2014/02/hayek-evil-inflationist.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">Hayek the Evil Inflationist!</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Hayek_the_Evil_Inflationist!" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Hayek the Evil Inflationist!">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">"So Hayek, after all his attacks on Keynes in the 1930s, essentially admitted Keynes was right, at least on these points at any rate." <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Hayek_the_Evil_Inflationist!" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Hayek the Evil Inflationist!">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 2/07/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/08/milton-friedman-unperson/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">Milton Friedman, Unperson</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Milton_Friedman,_Unperson" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Milton Friedman, Unperson">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;"><a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Paul_Krugman" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Paul Krugman">Paul Krugman</a> points out that Friedman's two major contributions to macroeconomics now seem unsupportable. "So Friedman has vanished from the policy scene -- so much so that I suspect that a few decades from now, historians of economic thought will regard him as little more than an extended footnote." <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Milton_Friedman,_Unperson" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Milton Friedman, Unperson">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">Libertarians demonize government and grossly misrepresent the nature of government, the effects of government and the differences between governments. <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Government" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Government">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 2/06/2014:</span></i> <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Shibboleth" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Shibboleth">Shibboleth</a></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">A shibboleth is a word or phrase that identifies you as belonging to the same tribe. It is a type of phatic expression. Synonyms include dog-whistle, password, watchword and catchword. <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Shibboleth" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Shibboleth">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 2/06/2014:</span></i> <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=The_Lockean_Fable_of_Initial_Acquisition" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Lockean Fable of Initial Acquisition">The Lockean Fable of Initial Acquisition</a></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;"><a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=John_Locke" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="John Locke">John Locke</a> tells a story (nothing more) that ignores the fact that current real-world ownership is based on past theft and conquest, not initial acquisition. "Mixing of labor" is merely expenditure of effort: it does nothing to create property because property is a socially constructed <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Institutions" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Institutions">institution</a>. <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=The_Lockean_Fable_of_Initial_Acquisition" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Lockean Fable of Initial Acquisition">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 2/06/2014:</span></i> <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Property" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Property">Property</a></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">Property, like all <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Rights" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Rights">rights</a>, is a coercive social <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Institutions" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Institutions">institution</a>, not a mystical relationship of individuals with objects. Property redistributes <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Liberty" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Liberty">liberty</a>: it protects some specific liberty for owners, and coercively denies that liberty to all others. The pretense that property is not coercive is one of the great libertarian lies. <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Property" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Property">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 2/06/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://mattbruenig.com/2014/02/04/initial-appropriation-a-dialogue/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">Initial Appropriation: A Dialogue</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Initial_Appropriation:_A_Dialogue" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Initial Appropriation: A Dialogue">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;"><a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Matt_Bruenig&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Matt Bruenig (page does not exist)">Matt Bruenig</a> explains the coercion involved in "initial appropriation". Much easier to read than Proudhon. He also ridicules the "mixing of labor" idea as being symbolic, rather than an actual description of a physical process. <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Initial_Appropriation:_A_Dialogue" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Initial Appropriation: A Dialogue">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 2/06/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2014/02/how-new-classicals-drank-austrians.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">How the New Classicals drank the Austrians' milkshake</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=How_the_New_Classicals_drank_the_Austrians%27_milkshake" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="How the New Classicals drank the Austrians' milkshake">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">"It seems to me that the Austrian School's demise came not because its ideas were rejected and marginalized, but because most of them were co-opted by mainstream macroeconomics [...] I'm pretty confident in saying that the paradigm of von Mises and Hayek is dead." <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=How_the_New_Classicals_drank_the_Austrians%27_milkshake" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="How the New Classicals drank the Austrians' milkshake">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 2/05/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://fatasmihov.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-conservative-bias-of-economic-models.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">The conservative bias of economic models</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=The_conservative_bias_of_economic_models" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The conservative bias of economic models">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">The simple "benchmark" models that are used for first-level economic explanations tend to give conservative results, but often do not match the real world. Minimum wage and increasing the money supply in depressions, for example. <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=The_conservative_bias_of_economic_models" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The conservative bias of economic models">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 2/04/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/03/google-apple-silicon-valley-free-market-joke" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">Silicon Valley billionaires believe in the free market, as long as they benefit</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Silicon_Valley_billionaires_believe_in_the_free_market,_as_long_as_they_benefit" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Silicon Valley billionaires believe in the free market, as long as they benefit">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">"Google, Apple and other tech firms likely colluded to keep their workers' wages down. So much for that libertarian worldview." <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Silicon_Valley_billionaires_believe_in_the_free_market,_as_long_as_they_benefit" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Silicon Valley billionaires believe in the free market, as long as they benefit">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 2/03/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://crookedtimber.org/2014/02/02/squeezing-the-rich-is-good-even-when-it-raises-no-money" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">Squeezing the rich is good: even when it raises no money</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Squeezing_the_rich_is_good:_even_when_it_raises_no_money" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Squeezing the rich is good: even when it raises no money">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">Three examples of how unrestrained income for the wealthy is socially harmful and should be taxed, even if it doesn't raise more money. <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Squeezing_the_rich_is_good:_even_when_it_raises_no_money" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Squeezing the rich is good: even when it raises no money">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;"><a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=William_Volker&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="William Volker (page does not exist)">William Volker</a>, alias "Mr. Anonymous", was one of the first major plutocratic funders of what has developed into libertarianism. Tens of billions of dollars have been spent on this centrally planned propaganda blitz over 60+ years. <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Mr._Anonymous_and_the_Not-So-Spontaneous_Birth_of_the_Libertarian_Movement" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Mr. Anonymous and the Not-So-Spontaneous Birth of the Libertarian Movement">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">The "<a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Planet_Money&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Planet Money (page does not exist)">Planet Money</a>" show of <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=NPR&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="NPR (page does not exist)">NPR</a>, surprise, surprise, is funded by Ally Bank (formerly GMAC), one of the world’s most toxic subprime lenders. Why else would NRP run a hit piece on <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Social_Security" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Social Security">Social Security</a>? <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=How_Planet_Money,_This_American_Life_and_NPR_Have_Become_Key_Players_in_the_Bankers%E2%80%99_Propaganda_War_on_What%27s_Left_of_Our_Social_Contract" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="How Planet Money, This American Life and NPR Have Become Key Players in the Bankers’ Propaganda War on What's Left of Our Social Contract">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 2/03/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://www.alternet.org/visions/true-history-libertarianism-america-phony-ideology-promote-corporate-agenda?paging=off" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">The True History of Libertarianism in America: A Phony Ideology to Promote a Corporate Agenda</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=The_True_History_of_Libertarianism_in_America:_A_Phony_Ideology_to_Promote_a_Corporate_Agenda" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The True History of Libertarianism in America: A Phony Ideology to Promote a Corporate Agenda">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">"Before <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Milton_Friedman" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Milton Friedman">Milton Friedman</a> was earning plaudits as an economic genius, he was a shill for the real estate industry and an early pioneer for big business propaganda known as libertarianism." <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=The_True_History_of_Libertarianism_in_America:_A_Phony_Ideology_to_Promote_a_Corporate_Agenda" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The True History of Libertarianism in America: A Phony Ideology to Promote a Corporate Agenda">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">Libertarians frequently claim the United States was libertarian or laissez-faire between Reconstruction and <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=The_New_Deal" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The New Deal">the New Deal</a>. Alternatively, they claim it is the closest state now. Both claims are ahistorical and ridiculous. <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=United_States" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="United States">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 2/03/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://socialdemocracy21stcentury.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/what-was-greatest-mistake-of-lionel.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">What was the Greatest Mistake of Lionel Robbins’s Life?</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=What_was_the_Greatest_Mistake_of_Lionel_Robbins%E2%80%99s_Life%3F" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="What was the Greatest Mistake of Lionel Robbins’s Life?">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 2/03/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://www.salon.com/2014/01/26/confessions_of_a_former_libertarian_my_personal_psychological_and_intellectual_epiphany/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">Confessions of a former Libertarian: My personal, psychological and intellectual epiphany</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Confessions_of_a_former_Libertarian:_My_personal,_psychological_and_intellectual_epiphany" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Confessions of a former Libertarian: My personal, psychological and intellectual epiphany">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">"The discomfort I felt with libertarianism was the discomfort of my ideas not aligning with my experiences. My thoughts and feelings were at odds. The feeling nagging me was that I couldn’t reconcile my humanity with my ideology any more than my friend could for me." <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Confessions_of_a_former_Libertarian:_My_personal,_psychological_and_intellectual_epiphany" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Confessions of a former Libertarian: My personal, psychological and intellectual epiphany">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 2/03/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://www.salon.com/2013/12/28/why_i_fled_libertarianism_and_became_a_liberal/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">Why I fled libertarianism -- and became a liberal</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Why_I_fled_libertarianism_--_and_became_a_liberal" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Why I fled libertarianism -- and became a liberal">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">"I don’t think regular Americans have any idea just how crazy libertarians can be." <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Why_I_fled_libertarianism_--_and_became_a_liberal" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Why I fled libertarianism -- and became a liberal">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">"Libertarians are mistaken to seek foundations, to take sides over moral approaches, and to have no proper theory of liberty." That's right: don't think, just believe in the ideology and interpret <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Non-Aggression" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Non-Aggression">non-aggression</a> his way.. <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=The_Three_Great_Errors_of_Most_Libertarians" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Three Great Errors of Most Libertarians">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 2/02/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://www.libertarianism.org/blog/non-agression-principle-cant-be-salvaged-isnt-even-principle" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">The Non-Aggression Principle Can’t Be Salvaged -- and Isn’t Even a Principle</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=The_Non-Aggression_Principle_Can%E2%80%99t_Be_Salvaged_--_and_Isn%E2%80%99t_Even_a_Principle" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Non-Aggression Principle Can’t Be Salvaged -- and Isn’t Even a Principle">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;"><a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Julian_Sanchez&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Julian Sanchez (page does not exist)">Julian Sanchez</a> points out "the non-aggression principle is ultimately circular, and shouldn’t be the basis for a libertarian theory of politics." <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=The_Non-Aggression_Principle_Can%E2%80%99t_Be_Salvaged_--_and_Isn%E2%80%99t_Even_a_Principle" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Non-Aggression Principle Can’t Be Salvaged -- and Isn’t Even a Principle">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 2/02/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://www.libertarianism.org/blog/epicycles-non-aggression" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">Epicycles and Non-Aggression</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Epicycles_and_Non-Aggression" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Epicycles and Non-Aggression">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;"><a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Brian_Kogelmann&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Brian Kogelmann (page does not exist)">Brian Kogelmann</a> points out "The non-aggression principle isn’t sufficient to help guide most of our political decisions, and so isn’t sufficient to be the core argument for libertarianism." <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Epicycles_and_Non-Aggression" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Epicycles and Non-Aggression">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 2/02/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://www.libertarianism.org/blog/six-reasons-libertarians-should-reject-non-aggression-principle" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">Six Reasons Libertarians Should Reject the Non-Aggression Principle</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Six_Reasons_Libertarians_Should_Reject_the_Non-Aggression_Principle" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Six Reasons Libertarians Should Reject the Non-Aggression Principle">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 2/01/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="https://vimeo.com/ondemand/atheoryofjustice" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/lock_icon.gif); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 16px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">John Rawls's A THEORY OF JUSTICE: THE MUSICAL!</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=John_Rawls%27s_A_THEORY_OF_JUSTICE:_THE_MUSICAL!" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="John Rawls's A THEORY OF JUSTICE: THE MUSICAL!">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">A delightful, musical burlesque of philosophy that pits <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=John_Rawls" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="John Rawls">John Rawls</a> against his arch-nemeses <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Robert_Nozick" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Robert Nozick">Robert Nozick</a> and <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Ayn_Rand" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Ayn Rand">Ayn Rand</a>. Vimeo rental. Highly recommended. View the preview and read <a class="external text" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Theory_of_Justice:_The_Musical!" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">the Wikipedia page</a> for a synopsis. <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=John_Rawls%27s_A_THEORY_OF_JUSTICE:_THE_MUSICAL!" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="John Rawls's A THEORY OF JUSTICE: THE MUSICAL!">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 2/01/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://critiquesoflibertarianism.blogspot.com/2010/12/pseudoscience-of-libertarian-morality.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">The pseudoscience of libertarian morality.</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=The_pseudoscience_of_libertarian_morality." style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The pseudoscience of libertarian morality.">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">An extended critical discussion of the pseudoscientific article "Understanding Libertarian Morality: The Psychological Roots of an Individualist Ideology" by Ravi Iyer et al. <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=The_pseudoscience_of_libertarian_morality." style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The pseudoscience of libertarian morality.">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">At some point in the not-so-distant future, a nation will issue its own crypto-currency that is exchangeable one-to-one with its ordinary currency... Even the rumor of these currencies will make Bitcoin plummet. <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Bitcoin_predictions." style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Bitcoin predictions.">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;"><a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Matt_Bruenig&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Matt Bruenig (page does not exist)">Matt Bruenig</a> points out "Libertarianism violates the NAP [non-aggression principle], as does every other theory that does not advocate the grab-what-you-can world." <a href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=How_a_reductio_ad_absurdum_works" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="How a reductio ad absurdum works">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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Mike Hubenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01371469964446567690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8381613.post-76988260743982692252014-02-11T07:06:00.001-05:002014-02-11T07:06:21.512-05:00The invisible hand of the market makes a very good pickpocket.Didn't see that one coming, huh?<br />
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<a href="http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/more-bad-news-on-west-virginia-water-020614">Charlie Pierce had a post about continued water contamination in WV</a> that had the line "The Invisible Hand of market forces is still screwing with the people in West Virginia."<br />
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And I love the Tom Tomorrow "This Modern World" Invisible Hand character, whom the other characters always observe to be visible.<br />
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There are a few books and articles about the evolution of the mythology of the invisible hand: I'll probably add them to the site in the near future.<br />
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Any other good riffs on the invisible hand that you folks would like to mention?Mike Hubenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01371469964446567690noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8381613.post-48469368693518327732014-02-10T16:45:00.000-05:002014-02-10T16:45:11.466-05:00Gene Callahan: tantrum when contradictedThin-skinned libertarians who cannot bear to have their pomposity and arguments opposed often think excluding others from their blogs is the way to go. Some, like Mankiw, simply don't allow comments at all. Others, like Gene Callahan, are censors in their little blog puddles, and won't approve messages they don't like.<br />
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This post is for us to share stories of pathetic folks like Gene who cannot bear free exchange and ban folks on personal whim, rather than on publicly announced rules.<br />
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I wrote <a href="http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2014/02/how-new-classicals-drank-austrians.html?showComment=1391647573087#c6300032944038785346">a comment at Noahpinion</a> that Gene Callahan responded to by calling me a crank.<br />
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When I checked out his blog, I saw a his article <a href="http://gene-callahan.blogspot.com/2014/02/why-did-urban-crime-rates-drop-last-20.html#comment-form">Why Did Urban Crime Rates Drop the Last 20 Years?</a> It was a silly article, and I pointed out that he was making a just-so story. He responded intemperately, and when I attempted to respond, wrote "I have a new hypothesis: my life would be much better if Mike Huben never appeared in it again. I am going to begin testing it out... now."<br />
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In other words, the big baby could not stand by his writings, and had to resort to censorship in his blog.<br />
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Here's what I had attempted to post:<br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">What you think doesn’t make something a hypotheses: it means you have chosen. Perhaps among many stories, such as the numerous creation myths.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">The word you used was “explanation”. Explanations can be stories, hypotheses, theories or laws and those are not mutually exclusive categories. If you had done any research on the term “just-so story”, you would know that it is commonly used in academia to describe hypotheses as bad.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Does the explanation “planners (mostly) stopped mucking about poor neighborhoods” really qualify as a hypothesis? Maybe in the sense of “provisional conjecture to guide investigation”: but that’s not what you show. You cite two people who do NOT mention crime rates and a temporal pattern. You have a hidden assumption that urban renewal sustained or was the initial cause of high crime rates. You lack the specific predictions and ideas for methodology that would help distinguish this “hypothesis” from other hypotheses.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">You have a just-so story. Raising it to the level of a hypothesis is work you haven’t done.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">If government isn’t your favorite bad guy, who is? Admission that something or person that you dislike has done something good does not imply they are not your favorite bad guy. You’re committing a basic fallacy there. I’d be happy if you direct me to some place where you state your position on government: I have no desire to mischaracterize you.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">By the way, reading the thousands of entries in your blog would be very time consuming. If you are proud of your defenses of government, I twice asked you to recommend them to me (by email.) And if you followed the link I sent you, Category:Gene_Callahan, you would see that I hadn’t noticed those.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">As for “really killer” [sic], “harmful” is not the same as causing crime rate drop after cessation. And in light of the lead theory of causation of high crime rates, a decrease in lead poisoning due to urban renewal might have mitigated or reversed the overall calculated harm from urban renewal. That is a specific, testable hypothesis.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">It’s obvious to me that you still need to read my “Parable of the ship” to understand why your thinking about this is so weak.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">And really, I’d think you’d be a bit more self-aware than to qualify for Godwin’s Law with mention of the Holocaust. My grandfather died in Buchenwald, and my grandmother survived another concentration camp.</span>Mike Hubenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01371469964446567690noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8381613.post-89049406174084598682014-01-31T06:53:00.000-05:002014-02-04T13:10:13.413-05:00Bitcoin predictions.At some point in the not-so-distant future, a nation will issue its own crypto-currency that is exchangeable one-to-one with its ordinary currency. If Bitcoin really does have transaction advantages beyond ordinary banking and credit cards, this more stable currency will share those advantages but also have a MUCH simpler exchange process into a real-world currency. <br />
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Why would a national crypto-currency be more stable? In the old days, gold was considered most stable in value and its exchangeability with fiat currency made the fiat currency more stable. Fiat money is considered more stable in value than crypto-currencies and can stabilize their values.<br />
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Once some smaller nation has established the first national crypto-currency, it will be obvious to the nations with dominant currencies (and the banks and the credit card companies and the rest of the financial industry) that they need to do the same thing to protect the demand for their currencies.<br />
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As national crypto-currencies develop, the value of Bitcoin will plummet. Even the rumor of these currencies will make Bitcoin plummet. National crypto-currencies will keep transactions traceable to prevent money laundering and other evasion of laws, leaving Bitcoin with primarily black market transactions. At that point, Bitcoin will be regulated out of existence if not simply made illegal.<br />
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How could Bitcoin be eradicated by governments? Very simple: use market mechanisms! Set up a privateering system whereby Bitcoin usage that is caught results in confiscation, with the booty split between the government and the privateers. Libertarians often like to talk about pirates as anarchist entrepreneurs that created complicated organizations without government, but they conveniently forget that government licensed pirates (privateers) were also very common.<br />
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[Update 2/4/2014] <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2014/02/governments_should_ditch_paper_currency_in_favor_of_electronic.html">The Paperless Economy: How governments can and should beat Bitcoin at its own game.</a> <a href="http://www.slate.com/authors.miles_kimball.html" rel="author" style="background-color: white; color: #660033; font-family: sl-ApresLightIt; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; text-decoration: none;">Miles Kimball</a> at Slate presents another good reason why governments such as the US might want to switch from paper to digital: to allow better control of interest rates and thus better control of the economy.Mike Hubenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01371469964446567690noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8381613.post-34998543227016862762014-01-25T11:18:00.000-05:002014-01-25T11:18:19.838-05:00What's new<dl style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.2em;">
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 1/25/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://unlearningeconomics.wordpress.com/2014/01/19/teaching-economics-start-with-key-contested-ideas/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">Teaching Economics? Start with Key Contested Ideas</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Teaching_Economics%3F_Start_with_Key_Contested_Ideas" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Teaching Economics? Start with Key Contested Ideas">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">Many basic ideas in economics are highly contested: how decisions are made, value, what economics is, capital, money, how to measure the economy, different economic systems, institutions; policy and economists’ relationship with it. <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Teaching_Economics%3F_Start_with_Key_Contested_Ideas" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Teaching Economics? Start with Key Contested Ideas">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 1/25/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/01/we-cant-afford-to-leave-inequality-to-the-economists/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">We Can’t Afford to Leave Inequality to the Economists</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/We_Can%E2%80%99t_Afford_to_Leave_Inequality_to_the_Economists" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="We Can’t Afford to Leave Inequality to the Economists">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;"><a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Justin_Fox&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Justin Fox (page does not exist)">Justin Fox</a> points out that economics isn't going to resolve the debate over the rising inequality in the U.S. and the world. "[...] these are areas in which economists possess no comparative advantage." <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/We_Can%E2%80%99t_Afford_to_Leave_Inequality_to_the_Economists" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="We Can’t Afford to Leave Inequality to the Economists">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 1/25/2014:</span></i> <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Economics_Should_Not_Tell_Us_What_To_Do" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Economics Should Not Tell Us What To Do">Economics Should Not Tell Us What To Do</a></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">Economics is only a tool, fundamentally amoral. But there are many other inputs for our moral values. For example, there are conditions under which slavery makes economic sense, yet we should not choose slavery and instead could change the conditions. <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Economics_Should_Not_Tell_Us_What_To_Do" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Economics Should Not Tell Us What To Do">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 1/23/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2014/01/ordoliberalism-neoliberalism-and.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">Ordoliberalism, Neoliberalism and Economics</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Ordoliberalism,_Neoliberalism_and_Economics" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Ordoliberalism, Neoliberalism and Economics">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">"Ordoliberalism sees a vital role for the state, in ensuring that markets stay close to some notion of an ideal market. In particular, ordoliberals believe that without a strong government powerful private interests would undermine competition." <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Ordoliberalism,_Neoliberalism_and_Economics" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Ordoliberalism, Neoliberalism and Economics">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 1/22/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/im-changing-my-mind-about-bitcoin-2013-12" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">I'm Changing My Mind About Bitcoin</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/I%27m_Changing_My_Mind_About_Bitcoin" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="I'm Changing My Mind About Bitcoin">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;"><a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Joe_Weisenthal&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Joe Weisenthal (page does not exist)">Joe Weisenthal</a> changes his opinion from "joke" to "unknown future". He points out that the current increase in value is due to Chinese money laundering or circumventing of capital controls: he cites <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Tyler_Cowan" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Tyler Cowan">Tyler Cowan</a> as saying this could change radically due to crackdowns or liberalization. <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/I%27m_Changing_My_Mind_About_Bitcoin" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="I'm Changing My Mind About Bitcoin">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 1/22/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/view_from_chicago/2013/04/bitcoin_is_a_ponzi_scheme_the_internet_currency_will_collapse.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">Fool's Gold</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Fool%27s_Gold" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Fool's Gold">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">"Bitcoin is a fantasy [...] More than anything else, it resembles a Ponzi scheme -- and the wild claims made on its behalf reveal a great deal about a libertarian strain of thinking with deep roots in the American psyche." <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Fool%27s_Gold" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Fool's Gold">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 1/22/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://hackingdistributed.com/2013/11/04/bitcoin-is-broken/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">Bitcoin Is Broken</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Bitcoin_Is_Broken" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Bitcoin Is Broken">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">Two researchers at Cornell have published a paper describing an attack strategy called Selfish-mine that creates immediate higher profits, encouraging others to join in a pool, which eventually gives the pool control over the Bitcoin blockchain. <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Bitcoin_Is_Broken" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Bitcoin Is Broken">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 1/22/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/01/devos-michigan-labor-politics-gop" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">Meet the New Kochs: The DeVos Clan's Plan to Defund the Left</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Meet_the_New_Kochs:_The_DeVos_Clan%27s_Plan_to_Defund_the_Left" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Meet the New Kochs: The DeVos Clan's Plan to Defund the Left">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">"The DeVoses sit alongside the Kochs, the Bradleys, and the Coorses as founding families of the modern conservative movement. Since 1970, DeVos family members have invested at least $200 million in a host of right-wing causes—think tanks, media outlets, political committees, evangelical outfits, and a string of advocacy groups." <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Meet_the_New_Kochs:_The_DeVos_Clan%27s_Plan_to_Defund_the_Left" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Meet the New Kochs: The DeVos Clan's Plan to Defund the Left">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 1/21/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="https://sites.google.com/site/justindkeith/home/geolibertarian-faq" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/lock_icon.gif); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 16px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">A Geolibertarian FAQ</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/A_Geolibertarian_FAQ" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="A Geolibertarian FAQ">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">Geolibertarians are Georgists (single taxers), who believe that a tax on land is the only legitimate tax. Ordinary (right) libertarians have no coherent response to Georgist arguments. <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/A_Geolibertarian_FAQ" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="A Geolibertarian FAQ">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">"The Alliance of the Libertarian Left is a multi-tendency coalition of mutualists, agorists, voluntaryists, geolibertarians, left-Rothbardians, green libertarians, dialectical anarchists, radical minarchists, and others on the libertarian left [...]" A large index of these anti-corporate-capitalist ideas. <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Alliance_of_the_Libertarian_Left" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Alliance of the Libertarian Left">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">Chip Berlet write about how the Four Freedoms his father fought for in WWII are essential to "what unites us as a nation concerned with democratic values. In doing so, we need to commit to a process that respects civil liberties, and civil rights, and civil discourse." <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Uniting_to_Defend_the_Four_Freedoms" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Uniting to Defend the Four Freedoms">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;"><a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Franklin_Roosevelt&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Franklin Roosevelt (page does not exist)">Franklin Roosevelt</a>'s freedoms that we fought for in WWII. Freedom of speech. Freedom of religion. Freedom from want. Freedom from fear. Far superior to the libertarian idea of<a class="mw-redirect" href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Economic_freedom" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Economic freedom">economic freedom</a> that benefits corporations and the rich. <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Four_Freedoms" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Four Freedoms">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">Freedom has many interpretations. Libertarians want to enforce their idea of freedom, rather than engage in political negotiation for which freedoms we will enjoy. <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Freedom" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Freedom">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">The story of <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Ross_Ulbricht" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Ross Ulbricht">Ross Ulbricht</a> (aka Dread Pirate Roberts) and Silk Road. What he did, how he was caught, his libertarian deep, and how <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Bitcoin" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Bitcoin">bitcoin</a>-based online marketplaces are traceable and often fraudulent. <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Eagle_Scout._Idealist._Drug_Trafficker." style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Eagle Scout. Idealist. Drug Trafficker.">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">Also known as black market. In an unregulated market, you have the freedom to buy and sell whatever you want, no matter how noxious. Drugs, poisons, child prostitutes, slaves, beatings, torture, executions, military force, mass murder: all these are sold in unregulated markets. <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Unregulated_Market" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Unregulated Market">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">Eagle Scout become libertarian become <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Bitcoin" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Bitcoin">bitcoin</a> drug dealer become buyer of murder. An example of how Bitcoin can not guarantee anonymity. As "Dread Pirate Roberts", he created the Silk Road <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Unregulated_market" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Unregulated market">unregulated market</a> for drugs and other black market deals. <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Ross_Ulbricht_aka_Dread_Pirate_Roberts_and_Silk_Road" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Ross Ulbricht aka Dread Pirate Roberts and Silk Road">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 1/18/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://billmoyers.com/2014/01/16/ten-examples-of-welfare-for-corporations-and-the-ultra-rich/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">Ten Examples of Welfare for Corporations and the Ultra-Rich</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Ten_Examples_of_Welfare_for_Corporations_and_the_Ultra-Rich" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Ten Examples of Welfare for Corporations and the Ultra-Rich">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">"If you want to look at the welfare for the rich and corporations, start with the federal Internal Revenue Code. That is the King James Bible of welfare for the rich and corporations. Special breaks in the tax code are the reason that there are thousands of lobbyists in the halls of Congress [...]" <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Ten_Examples_of_Welfare_for_Corporations_and_the_Ultra-Rich" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Ten Examples of Welfare for Corporations and the Ultra-Rich">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">Dani Rodrik is the Albert O. Hirschman Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Previously he was the Rafiq Hariri Professor of International Political Economy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He has published widely in international economics and globalization, economic growth and development, and political economy. <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Dani_Rodrik" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Dani Rodrik">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 1/17/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://timharford.com/2014/01/casinos-worrying-knack-for-consumer-manipulation/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">Casinos’ worrying knack for consumer manipulation</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Casinos%E2%80%99_worrying_knack_for_consumer_manipulation" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Casinos’ worrying knack for consumer manipulation">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">A number of examples of how various industries make it extremely difficult to know if you are getting a good deal and exploit addiction by design. Based on the book <i><a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Addiction_by_Design:_Machine_Gambling_in_Las_Vegas&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas (page does not exist)">Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas</a></i> by <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Natasha_Sch%C3%BCll&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Natasha Schüll (page does not exist)">Natasha Schüll</a>. <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Casinos%E2%80%99_worrying_knack_for_consumer_manipulation" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Casinos’ worrying knack for consumer manipulation">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">Consumers are generally amateurs attempting to compete with professionals. The professionals use a wide variety of psychological tactics to maximize the money extracted by misdirection, hiding information, and fostering irrationality. Regulations can alleviate this problem. <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Consumers_Are_At_A_Disadvantage_In_Markets" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Consumers Are At A Disadvantage In Markets">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 1/14/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/20086520/critiques/LINGO.pdf" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/document.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 12px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">LINGO: Libertarian propaganda term BINGO.</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/LINGO:_Libertarian_propaganda_term_BINGO." style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="LINGO: Libertarian propaganda term BINGO.">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">Play LINGO while you listen to any libertarian ranter or read libertarian screeds, checking off the libertarian jargon as you go. You may want to shout "LINGO!" when you complete a row, column, or diagonal. <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/LINGO:_Libertarian_propaganda_term_BINGO." style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="LINGO: Libertarian propaganda term BINGO.">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">Social democracy combines a universal welfare state and collective bargaining schemes with a capitalist economy. It usually refers to the highly successful social models and economic policies prominent in Western and Northern Europe, such as the Scandinavian nations. <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Social_Democracy" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Social Democracy">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 1/13/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://mattbruenig.com/2014/01/12/the-other-move-on-property/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">Matt Bruenig: The other move on property</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Matt_Bruenig:_The_other_move_on_property" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Matt Bruenig: The other move on property">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">If a libertarian admits property is based on involuntary coercive violence, they often seek to excuse it on the grounds that it is generally peaceful and we can live with it. But the same is true of taxation. <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Matt_Bruenig:_The_other_move_on_property" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Matt Bruenig: The other move on property">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 1/13/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://mattbruenig.com/2014/01/12/how-the-property-is-coercive-violence-move-functions-in-the-debate/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">Matt Bruenig: How the property is coercive violence move functions in the debate</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Matt_Bruenig:_How_the_property_is_coercive_violence_move_functions_in_the_debate" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Matt Bruenig: How the property is coercive violence move functions in the debate">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">Because property is based on involuntary coercive violence, libertarians who would oppose taxation on those grounds would have to oppose property on the same grounds.<a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Matt_Bruenig:_How_the_property_is_coercive_violence_move_functions_in_the_debate" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Matt Bruenig: How the property is coercive violence move functions in the debate">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 1/13/2014:</span></i> <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Property_Is_Coercive" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Property Is Coercive">Property Is Coercive</a></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">Claims that government is coercive but markets are not overlook the coercion involved in property. <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Property_Is_Coercive" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Property Is Coercive">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 1/13/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/01/12/no-we-dont-spend-1-trillion-on-welfare-each-year/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">No, we don’t spend $1 trillion on welfare each year</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/No,_we_don%E2%80%99t_spend_$1_trillion_on_welfare_each_year" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="No, we don’t spend $1 trillion on welfare each year">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;"><a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Mike_Konczal&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Mike Konczal (page does not exist)">Mike Konczal</a> refutes <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Cato_Institute" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Cato Institute">Cato Institute</a> claims which overestimate spending by a factor of 4 and ignore the fact that poverty rate statistics are measures of what poverty would be without the spending, rather than after the spending. <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/No,_we_don%E2%80%99t_spend_$1_trillion_on_welfare_each_year" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="No, we don’t spend $1 trillion on welfare each year">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 1/13/2014:</span></i> <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/The_Anti-Scientific_Revolution_in_Macroeconomics" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Anti-Scientific Revolution in Macroeconomics">The Anti-Scientific Revolution in Macroeconomics</a></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;"><a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Paul_Krugman" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Paul Krugman">Paul Krugman</a> reviews "the remarkable extent to which powerful groups, including a fair number of economists, have rejected intellectual progress [such as <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Keynesian_and_Post-Keynesian_Economics" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Keynesian and Post-Keynesian Economics">Keynesianism</a>] because it disturbs their ideological preconceptions." <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/The_Anti-Scientific_Revolution_in_Macroeconomics" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Anti-Scientific Revolution in Macroeconomics">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">Most libertarians oppose Keynesian arguments (such as insufficient demand causing recessions) because they conflict with their ideology. <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Keynesian_and_Post-Keynesian_Economics" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Keynesian and Post-Keynesian Economics">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 1/10/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://robertreich.org/post/72770488951" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">Why The Republican’s Old Divide-and-Conquer Strategy -- Setting Working Class Against the Poor -- Is Backfiring</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Why_The_Republican%E2%80%99s_Old_Divide-and-Conquer_Strategy_--_Setting_Working_Class_Against_the_Poor_--_Is_Backfiring" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Why The Republican’s Old Divide-and-Conquer Strategy -- Setting Working Class Against the Poor -- Is Backfiring">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">As note and more of the working class becomes insecure and approaches poverty, the chances of uniting against the wealthy grow better. <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Why_The_Republican%E2%80%99s_Old_Divide-and-Conquer_Strategy_--_Setting_Working_Class_Against_the_Poor_--_Is_Backfiring" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Why The Republican’s Old Divide-and-Conquer Strategy -- Setting Working Class Against the Poor -- Is Backfiring">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 1/10/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/10/opinion/krugman-the-war-over-poverty.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">The War Over Poverty</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/The_War_Over_Poverty" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The War Over Poverty">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 1/09/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2014/01/human-materialism-as-support-for.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">Human materialism as support for universal basic income</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Human_materialism_as_support_for_universal_basic_income" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Human materialism as support for universal basic income">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">"if people are provided a universal basic income, they're still going to want to do sometimes unpleasant work in order to accumulate more than their neighbor. It also puts a dent in the myth that government largesse creates dependency. Fundamentally, people want to have more things even if it means pointless work." <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Human_materialism_as_support_for_universal_basic_income" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Human materialism as support for universal basic income">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">Libertarian ideas for economic policy are generally either loopy or grossly harmful. <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Economic_Policy" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Economic Policy">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">Libertarians have no solution to unemployment beyond discredited trickle-down theories. <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Unemployment" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Unemployment">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 1/06/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/01/04/economists-agree-raising-the-minimum-wage-reduces-poverty/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">Economists agree: Raising the minimum wage reduces poverty</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Economists_agree:_Raising_the_minimum_wage_reduces_poverty" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Economists agree: Raising the minimum wage reduces poverty">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;"><a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Arin_Dube&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Arin Dube (page does not exist)">Arin Dube</a> has published a paper showing that even studies by opponents of <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Minimum_Wage" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Minimum Wage">minimum wage</a> show large reductions in poverty as a result. <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Economists_agree:_Raising_the_minimum_wage_reduces_poverty" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Economists agree: Raising the minimum wage reduces poverty">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 1/06/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://critiquesoflibertarianism.blogspot.com/2011/09/thats-what-freedom-is-all-about-taking.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">That's what freedom is all about: taking your own risks.</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/That%27s_what_freedom_is_all_about:_taking_your_own_risks." style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="That's what freedom is all about: taking your own risks.">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">Libertarian ideology omits basic facts of anthropology, such as the fact that humans naturally engage in gift networks and sometimes barter, but that markets are unnatural to our psychology. Libertarian ideology also usually ignores scientific psychological findings in favor of pop psychology. Capitalist exploitation relies on this fact. <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Anthropology_and_Scientific_Psychology" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Anthropology and Scientific Psychology">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 1/03/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://www.demos.org/blog/9/11/13/hans-hermann-hoppe-libertarian-extraordinaire" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Libertarian Extraordinaire</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Hans-Hermann_Hoppe,_Libertarian_Extraordinaire" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Libertarian Extraordinaire">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">"Is anyone in the libertarian community willing to denounce Hans-Hermann Hoppe as not one of them, and call him the lunatic he clearly is? Or is he still going to get an invite to the next convention?" <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Hans-Hermann_Hoppe,_Libertarian_Extraordinaire" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Libertarian Extraordinaire">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 1/03/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://www.demos.org/blog/10/23/13/sorry-john-stuart-mill-was-not-libertarian" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">Sorry, John Stuart Mill Was Not a Libertarian</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Sorry,_John_Stuart_Mill_Was_Not_a_Libertarian" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Sorry, John Stuart Mill Was Not a Libertarian">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">"For Mill, who gets what is a social decision. The only thing that causes anyone to ever have entitlement over pieces of the world are the laws and institutions of society. It is police violence in concert with legal rules that actually demarcate what belongs to whom, and there is no demanded-by-the-universe way of orienting those institutions." <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Sorry,_John_Stuart_Mill_Was_Not_a_Libertarian" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Sorry, John Stuart Mill Was Not a Libertarian">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 1/03/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://mattbruenig.com/2012/01/14/the-endless-struggle-for-ownership-of-economic-freedom/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">The endless struggle for ownership of “economic freedom”</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/The_endless_struggle_for_ownership_of_%E2%80%9Ceconomic_freedom%E2%80%9D" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The endless struggle for ownership of “economic freedom”">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">"But just because the right-wing has strangely captured the phrase in the last few decades, that does not mean it should be conceded over to them. The idea that extreme laissez-faire capitalism can be described as economic freedom is a very new one historically, and one for which there are very convincing reasons to reject." <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/The_endless_struggle_for_ownership_of_%E2%80%9Ceconomic_freedom%E2%80%9D" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The endless struggle for ownership of “economic freedom”">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 1/03/2014:</span></i> <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/John_Locke" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="John Locke">John Locke</a></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">Essentially all libertarians rely on Lockean homesteading and cite him in the evolution of their thought. But he was not in any way libertarian. He insisted on regulation of markets, limitations of property rights and redistribution of wealth. <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/John_Locke" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="John Locke">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 1/03/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://mattbruenig.com/2012/02/04/reclaiming-john-locke-from-libertarians/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">Reclaiming John Locke from libertarians</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Reclaiming_John_Locke_from_libertarians" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Reclaiming John Locke from libertarians">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">"Locke does support the institution of private property ownership, but not in the absolute sense that libertarians do. He thinks that justice demands redistribution from the wealthy to the very needy and checks on the coercive power that property owners have." <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Reclaiming_John_Locke_from_libertarians" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Reclaiming John Locke from libertarians">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 1/03/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://mattbruenig.com/2012/07/08/workplace-coercion-and-the-capability-approach/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">Workplace coercion and the capability approach</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Workplace_coercion_and_the_capability_approach" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Workplace coercion and the capability approach">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">Procedural liberty fails because one person's liberty forcibly excludes others. <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Amartya_Sen&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Amartya Sen (page does not exist)">Amartya Sen</a>'s <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Capability_Approach" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Capability Approach">Capability Approach</a> is an alternative. <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Workplace_coercion_and_the_capability_approach" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Workplace coercion and the capability approach">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 1/03/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://mattbruenig.com/2012/09/25/one-last-short-note-on-redistribution-i-promise/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">One last, short note on redistribution -- I promise</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/One_last,_short_note_on_redistribution_--_I_promise" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="One last, short note on redistribution -- I promise">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">A term that assumes that there is some original (or current) distribution that should be privileged. But since all distribution is socially determined and continually changing, it is really just a statement about dislike of change. <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/One_last,_short_note_on_redistribution_--_I_promise" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="One last, short note on redistribution -- I promise">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">A term that assumes that there is some original (or current) distribution that should be privileged. But since all distribution is socially determined and continually changing, it is really just a statement about dislike of change. <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Redistribution" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Redistribution">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 1/03/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://mattbruenig.com/2012/11/05/what-is-limited-government/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">What is limited government?</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/What_is_limited_government%3F" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="What is limited government?">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">"What we are really seeing in references to limited government is our old cultural-ideological friend: the assumption that laissez-faire institutions are somehow natural, default, and don’t involve the government making intentional distributive decisions that require a great deal of resources to enforce." <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/What_is_limited_government%3F" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="What is limited government?">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 1/03/2014:</span></i> <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Limited_Government_(propaganda)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Limited Government (propaganda)">Limited Government (propaganda)</a></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">Libertarians mean limited to enforce their ideology. The real meaning of limited government is to create a stable, self-limited mechanism that performs the functions desired by the populace. <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Limited_Government_(propaganda)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Limited Government (propaganda)">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 1/02/2014:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/02/bodyguard-of-zombies-counterattack-by-cockroaches/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">Bodyguard of Zombies, Counterattack by Cockroaches</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Bodyguard_of_Zombies,_Counterattack_by_Cockroaches" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Bodyguard of Zombies, Counterattack by Cockroaches">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;"><a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Paul_Krugman" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Paul Krugman">Paul Krugman</a> points out: "Today's right wing never gives up on a politically convenient argument, no matter how thoroughly it may have been refuted by analysis and evidence. It may downplay that argument for a while -- though often even that doesn’t happen -- but it always comes back." It's true of libertarianism too. <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Bodyguard_of_Zombies,_Counterattack_by_Cockroaches" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Bodyguard of Zombies, Counterattack by Cockroaches">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">"In any discussion about libertarians, the comments by libertarians will invariably make the stupidity of libertarianism clear." A variant on <a class="external text" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Lewis_(journalist)#Lewis.27s_law" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">Lewis’ Law</a>. <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/So_I_invented_a_new_law_the_other_day" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="So I invented a new law the other day">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a class="external text" href="http://equitablegrowth.org/2013/12/30/1483/a-pick-up-mini-internet-symposium-five-posts-on-bitcoin-triggered-by-a-question-from-adrienne-jeffries-of-the-verge" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">A Pick-Up Mini Internet Symposium: **More Than** Five Posts on BitCoin Triggered by a Question from Adrienne Jeffries of The Verge…</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/A_Pick-Up_Mini_Internet_Symposium:_**More_Than**_Five_Posts_on_BitCoin_Triggered_by_a_Question_from_Adrienne_Jeffries_of_The_Verge%E2%80%A6" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="A Pick-Up Mini Internet Symposium: **More Than** Five Posts on BitCoin Triggered by a Question from Adrienne Jeffries of The Verge…">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;"><a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Tyler_Cowen" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Tyler Cowen">Tyler Cowen</a>, <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Nick_Rowe&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Nick Rowe (page does not exist)">Nick Rowe</a>, <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Hal_Varian&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Hal Varian (page does not exist)">Hal Varian</a>, <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Brad_DeLong&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Brad DeLong (page does not exist)">Brad DeLong</a>, <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=John_Levine&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="John Levine (page does not exist)">John Levine</a> and <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Joe_Weisenthal&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Joe Weisenthal (page does not exist)">Joe Weisenthal</a> all discuss aspects of Bitcoin and its future. <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/A_Pick-Up_Mini_Internet_Symposium:_**More_Than**_Five_Posts_on_BitCoin_Triggered_by_a_Question_from_Adrienne_Jeffries_of_The_Verge%E2%80%A6" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="A Pick-Up Mini Internet Symposium: **More Than** Five Posts on BitCoin Triggered by a Question from Adrienne Jeffries of The Verge…">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;"><a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Tyler_Cowen" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Tyler Cowen">Tyler Cowen</a> makes a strong marginalist argument for why values of crypto currencies will plummet. Prices of currencies will be limited by marketing costs of potential competitors. "In short, we are still in a situation where supply-side arbitrage has not worked its way through the value of Bitcoin. And that is one reason -- among others -- why I expect the value of Bitcoin to fall -- a lot." <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/How_and_why_Bitcoin_will_plummet_in_price" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="How and why Bitcoin will plummet in price">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">A "taker" concern troll complains that his dignity is offended because he chose to have lower-cost ACA coverage that is subsidized. Instead of keeping his old policy. And then claims that this is a disincentive to earn more (which would eliminate the subsidy, but also leave him with more money.) He gets reamed in comments. <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Obamacare_makes_takers_out_of_the_middle_class" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Obamacare makes takers out of the middle class">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">"Bitcoin has become synonymous with everything wrong with Silicon Valley: a marriage of dubious technology and questionable economics wrapped up in a crypto-libertarian political agenda that smacks of nerds-do-it-better paternalism." <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Bitcoin,_Magical_Thinking,_and_Political_Ideology" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Bitcoin, Magical Thinking, and Political Ideology">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">A nice satire on the greed of bitcoin investors. <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/The_Greatest_Investment_Opportunity_Since_Dogecoin" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Greatest Investment Opportunity Since Dogecoin">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;"><a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Adam_Lee&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Adam Lee (page does not exist)">Adam Lee</a>'s page-by-page review and critique of <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Atlas_Shrugged" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Atlas Shrugged">Atlas Shrugged</a>: 38 blog posts and counting in 2013. <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Daylight_Atheism_review_of_Atlas_Shrugged" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Daylight Atheism review of Atlas Shrugged">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
Mike Hubenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01371469964446567690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8381613.post-44952032711311711282014-01-06T07:54:00.000-05:002014-01-06T07:54:39.364-05:00Simple Critique Of BitCoin still holding up....I've been updating<br />
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<a href="http://critiquesoflibertarianism.blogspot.com/2011/05/simple-critique-of-bitcoin.html">Simple critique of Bitcoin</a><br />
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with news as I encounter it.<br />
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I predicted a horde of imitation Bitcoins, and of course I was right. Today I added a link to <a href="http://coingen.bluematt.me/">Coingen</a>, which allows anybody to create any new coin they want for a very small fee.Mike Hubenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01371469964446567690noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8381613.post-1088685430674983482013-12-27T08:39:00.000-05:002013-12-27T08:39:07.471-05:00What's new<dl style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.2em;">
<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 12/19/2013:</span></i> <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/The_Spirit_Level:_Why_Equality_is_Better_for_Everyone" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone">The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone</a></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">Wilkinson and Pickett make an eloquent case that the income gap between a nation's richest and poorest is the most powerful indicator of a functioning and healthy society. -- Publishers Weekly <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/The_Spirit_Level:_Why_Equality_is_Better_for_Everyone" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 12/19/2013:</span></i> <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/The_Shock_Doctrine:_The_Rise_of_Disaster_Capitalism" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism">The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism</a></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;"><i>The Shock Doctrine</i> advances a truly unnerving argument: historically, while people were reeling from natural disasters, wars and economic upheavals, savvy politicians and industry leaders nefariously implemented policies that would never have passed during less muddled times. <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/The_Shock_Doctrine:_The_Rise_of_Disaster_Capitalism" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 12/19/2013:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://www.pieria.co.uk/articles/in_defense_of_leftiness" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">Right Hook: The Tactics of Conservative Criticism</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Right_Hook:_The_Tactics_of_Conservative_Criticism" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Right Hook: The Tactics of Conservative Criticism">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">"Over the past few years, there have been some big hitting books from the left criticising inequality, capitalism and 'free market' economics or neoliberalism. Naturally, these books have received a lot of criticism from the right. However, sometimes it seems that this criticism is overzealous: an attempt not merely to question the book, but discredit it entirely, and accuse the authors of various misrepresentations of facts and people along the way." Examples from <i><a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/The_Spirit_Level:_Why_Equality_is_Better_for_Everyone" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone">The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone</a>' by Kate Pickett & Richard Wilkinson, '<a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Chavs:_The_Demonisation_of_the_Working_Class&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Chavs: The Demonisation of the Working Class (page does not exist)">Chavs: The Demonisation of the Working Class</a>' by Owen Jones, and '<a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/The_Shock_Doctrine:_The_Rise_of_Disaster_Capitalism" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism">The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism</a>' by Naomi Klein. <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Right_Hook:_The_Tactics_of_Conservative_Criticism" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Right Hook: The Tactics of Conservative Criticism">[more...]</a></i></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 12/19/2013:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/12/why-i-want-bitcoin-to-die-in-a.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">Why I want Bitcoin to die in a fire</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Why_I_want_Bitcoin_to_die_in_a_fire" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Why I want Bitcoin to die in a fire">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">"BitCoin looks like it was designed as a weapon intended to damage central banking and money issuing banks, with a Libertarian political agenda in mind.... Which is fine if you're a Libertarian, but I tend to take the stance that Libertarianism is like Leninism: a fascinating, internally consistent political theory with some good underlying points that, regrettably, makes prescriptions about how to run human society that can only work if we replace real messy human beings with frictionless spherical humanoids of uniform density...." <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Why_I_want_Bitcoin_to_die_in_a_fire" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Why I want Bitcoin to die in a fire">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 12/12/2013:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/bitcoin-libertarian-paradise-would-be-hell-on-earth-2013-12" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">Bitcoin Proves The Libertarian Idea Of Paradise Would Be Hell On Earth</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Bitcoin_Proves_The_Libertarian_Idea_Of_Paradise_Would_Be_Hell_On_Earth" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Bitcoin Proves The Libertarian Idea Of Paradise Would Be Hell On Earth">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">The bit coin experience is characterized by radical instability, chaos, the rise of a boss-class of criminals who assassinate people they don't like, and a mass handover of wealth to a minority even smaller than the 1% that currently lauds it in the United States. <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Bitcoin_Proves_The_Libertarian_Idea_Of_Paradise_Would_Be_Hell_On_Earth" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Bitcoin Proves The Libertarian Idea Of Paradise Would Be Hell On Earth">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 12/10/2013:</span></i> <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Force_and_Fraud" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Force and Fraud">Force and Fraud</a></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">Not normal definitions: redefined to be anything libertarians dislike. See: <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Coercion" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Coercion">Coercion</a>. <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Force_and_Fraud" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Force and Fraud">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">Libertarians frequently claim the founding fathers were libertarians based on cherry-picked quotations, mostly from slave owners. Does that show that libertarians endorse slavery? <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/The_Founding_Fathers_Of_The_USA" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Founding Fathers Of The USA">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 12/09/2013:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://www.frumforum.com/best-of-ff-were-the-founders-libertarians/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">Were the Founders Libertarians?</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Were_the_Founders_Libertarians%3F" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Were the Founders Libertarians?">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">Of course not. <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=David_Frum&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="David Frum (page does not exist)">David Frum</a> condemns this revisionism and points out that the mental outlook of the founders was wholly different based on religious belief, material scarcity, and slaveholding. <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Were_the_Founders_Libertarians%3F" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Were the Founders Libertarians?">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 12/08/2013:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://socialdemocracy21stcentury.blogspot.com/2013/12/murphy-on-us-and-canadian-unemployment.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">Murphy on US and Canadian Unemployment during the 1930s: A Critique</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Murphy_on_US_and_Canadian_Unemployment_during_the_1930s:_A_Critique" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Murphy on US and Canadian Unemployment during the 1930s: A Critique">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">Robert Murphy's claims that Canada had a much better recovery without government intervention during the Great Depression are based on comparing apples to oranges.<a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Murphy_on_US_and_Canadian_Unemployment_during_the_1930s:_A_Critique" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Murphy on US and Canadian Unemployment during the 1930s: A Critique">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 12/07/2013:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://socialdemocracy21stcentury.blogspot.com/2013/12/schullers-challenge-to-misesian.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">Schuller’s Challenge to Misesian Apriorists has never been answered</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Schuller%E2%80%99s_Challenge_to_Misesian_Apriorists_has_never_been_answered" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Schuller’s Challenge to Misesian Apriorists has never been answered">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;"><a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=George_Schuller&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="George Schuller (page does not exist)">George Schuller</a> provided a devastating epistemological critique of <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Human_Action" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Human Action">Human Action</a>'s <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Praexology&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Praexology (page does not exist)">praexology</a> in 1951, that has never been answered. Easy to understand. <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Schuller%E2%80%99s_Challenge_to_Misesian_Apriorists_has_never_been_answered" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Schuller’s Challenge to Misesian Apriorists has never been answered">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 12/06/2013:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://ftalphaville.ft.com/tag/bitcoinmania/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">Bitcoinmania at FT Alphaville</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Bitcoinmania_at_FT_Alphaville" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Bitcoinmania at FT Alphaville">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">The Financial Times blog on <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Bitcoin" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Bitcoin">Bitcoin</a> shenannigans. Properly skeptical. <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Bitcoinmania_at_FT_Alphaville" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Bitcoinmania at FT Alphaville">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 12/01/2013:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/30/the-minimum-we-can-do/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">The Minimum We Can Do</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/The_Minimum_We_Can_Do" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Minimum We Can Do">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">Raising the minimum wage reduces poverty, has next to zero effect on employment, complements Earned-Income Tax Credit, benefits labor markets by reducing turnover, and has widespread support for its fairness. <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/The_Minimum_We_Can_Do" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="The Minimum We Can Do">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 12/01/2013:</span></i> <a class="external text" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/rich-people-create-jobs-2013-11" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">Sorry, Folks, Rich People Actually Don't 'Create The Jobs'</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Sorry,_Folks,_Rich_People_Actually_Don%27t_%27Create_The_Jobs%27" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Sorry, Folks, Rich People Actually Don't 'Create The Jobs'">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">"So, if rich people do not create the jobs, what does? A healthy economic ecosystem -- one in which most participants (especially the middle class) have plenty of money to spend." <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Sorry,_Folks,_Rich_People_Actually_Don%27t_%27Create_The_Jobs%27" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Sorry, Folks, Rich People Actually Don't 'Create The Jobs'">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><span style="color: red;">NEW 12/01/2013:</span></i> <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Entrepreneurs_(or_investors)_create_jobs." style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Entrepreneurs (or investors) create jobs.">Entrepreneurs (or investors) create jobs.</a></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">A half-truth: they also discard jobs just as readily. Sustainability of jobs is created by consumers and other social factors that enable a profit from jobs. <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Entrepreneurs_(or_investors)_create_jobs." style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Entrepreneurs (or investors) create jobs.">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">Most of the world, including the USA, is a plutocracy: ruled by and for the rich, the .01%. Libertarians with their obsession with property tend to favor this status quo. Also known as plutonomy and plutarchy, closely related to oligarchy. <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Plutocracy" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Plutocracy">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">Private charity is the libertarian's magical alternative to government redistribution. All of history shows that private charity has never and never will be up to the task of alleviating problems of <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Poverty" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Poverty">poverty</a> and other injustice. <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Private_Charity" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Private Charity">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">The overriding role of property and capitalism in libertarianism prevents it from fulfilling liberal objectives and contradicts basic liberal ideas. <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Libertarianism_Is_Not_Liberalism" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Libertarianism Is Not Liberalism">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">The magical libertarian of <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Ayn_Rand" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Ayn Rand">Ayn Rand</a>'s <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Atlas_Shrugged" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Atlas Shrugged">Atlas Shrugged</a>, even more implausible than her other characters. A <a class="external text" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prester_John" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">Prester John</a> figure presiding over a fictional libertarian utopia.<a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/John_Galt" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="John Galt">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a class="external text" href="http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2012/07/microfoundations-would-be-nice-if-we.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: url(http://critiques.us/mediawiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">Microfoundations would be nice if we had them</a> <i><small><a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Microfoundations_would_be_nice_if_we_had_them" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Microfoundations would be nice if we had them">[More...]</a></small></i></dt>
<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;">"Once again, let me reiterate that the big problem with 'microfounded' macro, as I see it, is that the 'microfoundations' are bad: not credible, and generally not consistent with anything microeconomists have actually found. Bad microfoundations are worse than none at all." <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Microfoundations_would_be_nice_if_we_had_them" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Microfoundations would be nice if we had them">[more...]</a></dd></dl>
Mike Hubenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01371469964446567690noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8381613.post-56770248809634024772013-12-12T16:30:00.002-05:002013-12-12T16:30:57.724-05:00Contemporary Political Philosophy: An Introduction By Will Kymlicka (second edition, 2002)Lists my site at the end of the chapter on libertarianism, page 160.<br />
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Useful websites include:<br />[...]<br />(d) 'Critiques of Libertarianism', a website with an extensive set of links critiquing libertarian theories and policy proposals (www.world.std.com/~mhuben/libindex.html).</blockquote>
It only took me 11 years to notice that I've made it into one of the standard political philosophy textbooks.Mike Hubenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01371469964446567690noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8381613.post-52854033964781976632013-12-10T10:25:00.000-05:002013-12-10T10:25:33.348-05:00Introduction To LibertarianismI've finally produced a good enough <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Introduction_To_Libertarianism" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; color: #5a3696; font-family: sans-serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 19px; text-decoration: none;" title="Introduction To Libertarianism">Introduction To Libertarianism</a> to place it at the top of my web site.<br />
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Please make suggestions or corrections. My biggest concern is that it is too dense to read easily, and so I'm especially open to editorial suggestions.<br />
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Libertarianism is a cacaphony of political ideas united only by a rhetoric of <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Liberty" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Liberty">liberty</a> and <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Freedom&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Freedom (page does not exist)">freedom</a>. On this website, libertarianism refers only to the right-wing, capitalist versions. At this point, libertarian ideas have entered the mainstream media and are unavoidable. Some further description of the cacophony is available at <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/What_Is_Libertarianism%3F" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="What Is Libertarianism?">What Is Libertarianism?</a></div>
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Left-wing, socialist libertarianism's exist, but they are comparatively tiny and not problems. Nor are we discussing the ancient, nondeterministic, philosophical libertarianism concept that means free will.</div>
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Political libertarianism is the libertarianism that we are exposed to through the media, a mass market astroturf libertarianism.</div>
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Political libertarianism, like the media, is controlled top-down by plutocrats and operated for the benefit of plutocrats. It is not about "<a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Liberty" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Liberty">liberty</a>" or "<a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Freedom&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Freedom (page does not exist)">freedom</a>": it is about ownership. The plutocrats want to convince the populace that:</div>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Ownership of the vast majority of the world's wealth by plutocrats is legitimate and untouchable.</li>
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The plutocrats objective is political change to get more wealth and prevent losing any wealth to taxation or other liabilities.</div>
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Political libertarianism is dominated by <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Public_Relations&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Public Relations (page does not exist)">public relations</a> programs that have been around since at least the 1930's, reacting to <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Progressivism" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Progressivism">Progressivism</a>. The <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Mount_Pelerin_Society&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Mount Pelerin Society (page does not exist)">Mount Pelerin Society</a> in the 1950's began a great expansion of these programs. The <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Charles_and_David_Koch" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Charles and David Koch">Koch brothers</a> have largely organized or controlled these public relations programs, and they scored their first big successes in the 1980's under Reagan. Without the hundreds of millions of dollars pumped into public relations programs, right-wing political libertarianism would be just another fringe political belief as small as left-libertarianism.</div>
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This is also called <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Vulgar_Libertarianism&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Vulgar Libertarianism (page does not exist)">vulgar libertarianism</a> by <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Kevin_Carson&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Kevin Carson (page does not exist)">Kevin Carson</a>. The message really is: “Them pore ole bosses need all the help they can get.”</div>
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Political libertarianism maintains a continual drumbeat of propaganda: attempting to inject libertarian ideas and terminology into almost every public issue while filtering out opposition, because repetition is the heart of propaganda. A more complete description of this methodology is found in <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent:_The_Political_Economy_of_the_Mass_Media" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media">Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media</a>. Political libertarianism is not the only plutocratic tool: much conservatism is similarly exploited, for example by the <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Heritage_Foundation&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Heritage Foundation (page does not exist)">Heritage Foundation</a> and most recently by the <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Tea_Party" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Tea Party">Tea Party</a>.</div>
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Political libertarianism is why the Critiques Of Libertarianism site is so very large: propagandists attempt to shoehorn almost every issue and subject into libertarian ideology.</div>
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Individualistic libertarianism is what the targets of political libertarianism believe. This is a huge morass of conflicting ideas with only one constant: the political libertarian idea that ownership should be sacred. Ask a libertarian what part of ownership they would give up to achieve any other social end, and they will say no part. It doesn't matter if some socialistic government (such as roads or defense) would benefit the lives of everybody; they despise it because it conflicts with their property, no matter how meager.</div>
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Individualistic libertarians are in large part shaped by the propaganda organs of Political Libertarianism. For example, the <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Libertarian_Party" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Libertarian Party">Libertarian Party</a>, the <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Cato_Institute" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Cato Institute">Cato Institute</a>, <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Reason_Magazine&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Reason Magazine (page does not exist)">Reason Magazine</a> and many other sources are parts of the <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Kochtopus" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Kochtopus">Kochtopus</a>, a huge number of organizations and publications founded, funded, or controlled by <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Charles_and_David_Koch" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Charles and David Koch">Charles and David Koch</a> over roughly 40 years. These in turn direct recruits to a number of <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Fundamental_Libertarian_Books" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Fundamental Libertarian Books">fundamental books</a> that help indoctrinate the important propaganda themes.</div>
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Individualistic libertarianism is bottom-up: it is not controlled directly by political libertarians beyond manipulation by propaganda. These useful idiots can be relied upon to inject libertarian viewpoints into discussions that are not controlled by the mass media. They are as welcome as door-to-door evangelists from another religion.</div>
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Individualistic libertarianism ranges from the honorable and sincere to the vile and repulsive, with stops along the way for the immature, foolish, and intemperate. You've got your government haters, racists, sexists, pederasts, conspiracy theorists, tax evaders, exploiters and other socially repulsive types generously represented in this category. Especially because they are rejected by mainstream parties for obnoxious views. That's not entirely bad, as Noam Chomsky has observed: libertarians have great tolerance of diverse views as long as they denounce government and promote private property.</div>
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Libertarian philosophy is mostly corrupt: much of it is funded by plutocrats to provide ideas and materials for their public relations campaigns. Hayek, for example, never held an academic position that wasn't funded by plutocrats. Milton Friedman and Robert Nozick might seem exceptions to this funding generalization, until you consider what class Harvard and the University Of Chicago serve (both are private universities relying on wealthy funders.).</div>
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Common <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Failures_Of_Libertarian_Philosophy" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Failures Of Libertarian Philosophy">failures of libertarian philosophy</a> include:</div>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">natural rights</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">self-ownership</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">individualism</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">the assumption of property</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">single value reasoning</li>
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These are all erroneous assumptions or fallacies of argument.</div>
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For the same reason why Fascism is important: it is a noxious ideology that would lead to great repression and suffering. It is an ideology that would roll back the <a href="http://critiques.us/wiki/Progressivism" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Progressivism">progressive</a> policies that have diminished poverty and brought about the largest <a class="new" href="http://critiques.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Middle_class&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Middle class (page does not exist)">middle class</a> ever known. It is an ideology that would diminish democracy. And because it is one of the major tools of plutocrats to justify and promote their plutocracy.</div>
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Mike Hubenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01371469964446567690noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8381613.post-57898023751124327732013-12-06T05:57:00.000-05:002013-12-06T06:21:00.056-05:00Update on my Simple critique of Bitcoin<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 20px;">Two and a half years ago I wrote </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #cc6600; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 1.4em;">Simple critique of Bitcoin</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 20px;">, and my first prediction is coming true. I wrote:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 20px;">Bitcoin MIGHT work if only it was able to be unique. But there is nothing to stop a proliferation of identical networked coinage systems. Even if it were patented, the patent would expire. With no intellectual property protection, we would see an unlimited set of identical citcoin, ditcoin, etceteracoin.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 20px;"> </span><br />
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[Added 12/6/13] <a href="http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2013/11/28/1708692/so-this-is-how-fiat-currency-dies-with-thunderous-cpus/">So this is how fiat currency dies, with thunderous CPUs?</a><br />
As predicted, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litecoin">Litecoin</a> has arisen. And it can make 4 times as many coins! It is open source, and thus can be reimplemented over and over by anybody who wants to open yet another bubble. But worse, "In fact, Cryptocoincharts <a href="http://www.cryptocoincharts.info/">shows something in the region</a> of 164 different virtual currency-based cross rates in the market..." which means a minimum of 13 competing currencies.Mike Hubenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01371469964446567690noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8381613.post-87674017310732629952013-12-03T07:05:00.000-05:002013-12-03T07:05:01.298-05:00Amazon Prime Air drone package delivery systemLibertarians no doubt will wail about the FAA restricting this "important progress". Until they have to shut up because somebody starts delivering thermite bombs to the roofs of buildings with unregistered and unregulated drones. Paid for with bitcoins, of course. :-)<br />
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All law enforcement, including laws libertarians like about property and such, is based on making people accountable. When technology produces a new technique for evading accountability, it is proper to require regulation of that technology.Mike Hubenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01371469964446567690noreply@blogger.com1