Capitalism
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No, Capitalism Did Not Fail
Riding out storms and sharing risks across billions of people is a feature, not a bug, and the affluent capitalist nature of our institutions puts us in a better position to deal with them.
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A Government That Does Everything Can’t Do Anything Well
The often-prescient Tyler Cowen commented not long ago that libertarianism, if it is to grow as a political movement, should embrace arguments for expanding state capacity in some areas. He […]
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Of Course Capitalism Can Save Nature
Various schemes have turned rhinos and other scenic African animals from victims of the tragedy of the commons to valuable commodities that hunters and farmers and former poachers sustain, in no small part thanks to ecotourism.
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Are We Seriously Debating Capitalism vs. Socialism Again?
Socialism is a movement not of the working classes but of the elites, born of arrogance, snobbery, and preposterous pretense, kept alive not from lived experience but the astonishing capacity of an ideologically soaked brain to live in denial of reality.
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The New History of Capitalism Has a “Whiteness” Problem
Thus do we arrive at the unenviable position where scholars in the New History of Capitalism genre are guilty of the very same faults that they invoke to dismiss critics of the 1619 Project.
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The Great Redistribution: Who Benefits From Ruthless Capitalism?
The two ugliest entries in America’s anti-capitalist vocabulary might be “ruthless capitalism” and “speculation.” Ruthless — or any other distasteful adjective of your choosing — capitalism is a mythical kind […]
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Marx vs. Mises Video: Text and Commentary
Here you will find the full English text of the now-famous film, complete with explanatory videos with interviews from experts.
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Is Capitalism an Artificial Imposition on Human Affairs?
Once freed from the mischaracterizations of economic theory that the new historians of capitalism have imported from Karl Polanyi, it is easy to see the foolishness of their endeavors.
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The Film Capitalism Needs Right Now
Something tells me that if we are ever going to regain the footing in public culture, the Brooks path might be the one to make it happen.
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No, the Business Roundtable Did Not Repudiate Capitalism
The Business Roundtable is merely rediscovering what proponents of a free market system have known for a long time.
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The Anti-Capitalist Ideology of Slavery
The anti-capitalist ideology of southern slaveholders presents a conundrum for historians who erroneously equate the plantation economy with the free market.
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Capitalism in Three Principles
Michael Munger found it useful to summarize the argument for capitalism briefly, and in some ways superficially.
