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38Calculation and chaos: Reply to CaplanCritical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society 17 (1-2): 171-178. 2005.Ludwig von Mises argued that (1) economic calculation under socialism is impossible, and that (2) the lack of calculation would entail chaos and starvation. In these pages, Bryan Caplan has accepted the first claim but rejected the second, and has argued further that in real‐world attempts to implement socialism, it was the lack of incentives, not the absence of economic calculation, that was responsible for economic chaos. I suggest, against Caplan's interpretation, that by “chaos” Mises meant …Read more
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Review of Douglas B. Rasmussen and Douglas J. Den Uyl's Liberty and Nature: An Aristotelian Defense of Liberal Order (1991) (review)Journal of Libertarian Studies 11 (1): 129-142. 1994.
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21The last two decades have seen Marxism's academic renascence. In fields as diverse as law, literary criticism, history, and philosophy, Marxism once again captivates no small number of scholars. In part, this reassessment is driven by the efforts of a group of philosophers and economists to reconstruct Marx from the ground up on a more rigorous basis. The work of these "Analytical Marxists" -- who include G.A. Cohen, Jon Elster, and John Roemer -- is given a sustained examination and critique in…Read more
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6The Main Debate: Communism Versus CapitalismInternational Philosophical Quarterly 30 (3): 375-378. 1990.
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23The Scottish Enlightenment, and the Theory of Spontaneous Order (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 29 (3): 357-359. 1989.
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3The Main Debate: Communism Versus Capitalism (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 30 (3): 375-378. 1990.
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1The morality of globalization: is there a duty to transfer wealth?Nuova Civiltà Delle Macchine 29 (1/2): 359-370. 2011.
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54Marxism, Dictatorship, and the Abolition of RightsSocial Philosophy and Policy 3 (2): 145. 1986.Is a Marxist society liable to be an oppressive one? To ask this question is immediately to pose two others: what is meant by Marxism; and what counts as an oppressive society? To take these questions in reverse order, by an oppressive society I shall mean one in which, other things being equal, people do not possess basic civil liberties. Examples of basic civil liberties include, but are not limited to, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, and, if the society has a poli…Read more