Archive for Chris Matthew Sciabarra
Chris Matthew Sciabarra is a visiting scholar in New York University's politics department and the author of Marx, Hayek, and Utopia, Ayn Rand: the Russian Radical, and Total Freedom: Toward a Dialectical Libertarianism.
A Crisis of Political Economy
The current state and the current banking sector require each other. They are so reciprocally intertwined that each is an extension of the other.
Remember this the next time somebody tells you, as New York Times columnist Bob Herbert did, that “free market madmen” caused the current financial crisis that is threatening to undermine the global economy. There is no free market. There is no “laissez-faire capitalism.” The government has been deeply involved in setting the parameters for market relations for eons; in fact, genuine “laissez-faire capitalism” has never existed. Yes, trade may have been less regulated in the nineteenth century, but not even the so-called Gilded Age featured “unfettered” markets.
24Apr2009 | Chris Matthew Sciabarra | 6 comments | ContinuedDialectics and Liberty
Ten years ago the first two books of what has become known as my “Dialectics and Liberty” trilogy were published. Those books—Marx, Hayek, and Utopia (SUNY Press) and Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical (Penn State Press)—together with the culminating work, Total Freedom: Toward a Dialectical Libertarianism (Penn State Press), constitute a defense of dialectical method [...]
1Sep2005 | Chris Matthew Sciabarra | 3 comments | ContinuedAyn Rand: A Centennial Appreciation
This essay is derived from a more comprehensive paper written for the forthcoming anthology, edited by Edward Younkins, Atlas Shrugged: Ayn Rand’s Philosophical and Literary Masterpiece. Born in Russia on February 2, 1905, the late novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand would eventually emigrate to the United States and make an indelible mark on intellectual history. [...]
1Feb2005 | Chris Matthew Sciabarra | 0 comments | Continued-
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