HT Peter Creswell
About right
04 Mar 2018 Leave a comment
in history of economic thought, liberalism, Marxist economics Tags: Leftover Left, political correctness
HT Peter Creswell
Didn’t Marx think the paradox of value worked in his favour?
21 Feb 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, Austrian economics, history of economic thought, Marxist economics Tags: The Great Enrichment
The Myth of Scandinavian Socialism
17 Feb 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, Marxist economics Tags: Sweden
Why did Milton Friedman bother? James Buchanan was supposedly far more influential despite rarely looking up from his desk
13 Feb 2018 2 Comments
in constitutional political economy, history of economic thought, Public Choice
Milton Friedman invested decades of his time in being a public intellectual. Writing Capitalism and Freedom in 1962, newspaper columns from the 1960s, countless television interviews and public speeches, travelled the world, and of course his famous 1970s TV series Free to Choose. Friedman wrote a bestselling autobiography Two Lucky People and many other books for popular audiences.
If Democracy in Chains is to be believed, James Buchanan was far more influential in a dastardly Machiavelli way despite no work as a public intellectual, hardly any online video clips, a difficult writing style, and a dry way of public speaking. His only known public policy position would be his advocacy of ruinous inheritance taxes.
Other than that, Buchanan devoted himself to the technical aspects of public choice economics. As a teacher, I am told that he crammed all his lectures into 2-weeks to get back to his desk as quickly as possible without further interruption from students.
If only Milton had known. You can be immensely influential despite making no effort to publicise your views or participate in public debate or even be all that articulate. As Nancy MacLean herself noticed
There are a few reasons Buchanan has been overlooked. One is that the Koch cause does not advertise his work, preferring to tout the sunnier primers of Hayek, Friedman and even Ayn Rand when recruiting. Buchanan is the advanced course, as it were, for the already committed. Another is that Buchanan did not seek the limelight like Friedman, so few on the left have even heard of him. I myself learned of him only by serendipity, in a footnote about the Virginia schools fight.
Noam Chomsky on Postmodernism
31 Jan 2018 2 Comments
in history of economic thought Tags: Age of Enlightenment, political correctness
Jordan B Peterson on “But That Wasn’t Real Communism, Socialism, or Marxism!”
31 Jan 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, history of economic thought, law and economics, Marxist economics, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: fall of communism, The fatal conceit
Jordan Peterson: Why is Marxism so Attractive?
29 Jan 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, economics of crime, environmental economics, history of economic thought, law and economics, Marxist economics, Public Choice, war and peace Tags: fall of communism, Nazi Germany
How to shut up a marxist (Jordan Peterson speech)
28 Jan 2018 2 Comments
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, economics of crime, history of economic thought, income redistribution, law and economics, Marxist economics, poverty and inequality, Public Choice Tags: fall of communism, Twitter left
Friedrich von Hayek and Armen Alchian Part I
27 Jan 2018 Leave a comment
in Austrian economics, F.A. Hayek, history of economic thought Tags: Armen Alchian
. @smalltorquer was Coase wrong in 1972? @EricCrampton
21 Jan 2018 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, history of economic thought, Public Choice
Ht Café Hayek.
The Meaning of Knowledge: Crash Course Philosophy #7
11 Jan 2018 Leave a comment
in history of economic thought Tags: philosophy of science
Karl Popper, Science, and Pseudoscience: Crash Course Philosophy #8
11 Jan 2018 1 Comment
in history of economic thought Tags: philosophy of science
Joan Robinson and Paul Samuelson skewer Marx as a prophet
05 Jan 2018 Leave a comment
in history of economic thought
Source: Marxian economics as Economics by Paul Samuelson (1967) American Economic Review.
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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