All Posts Tagged With: "justice"

From Good Samaritan to Robin Hood

The clamor from interventionists against inequality morphs into a clamor for a larger and larger state. This path leads to the loss of liberty and a distortion of both democracy and justice. It distorts democracy because, by attempting to solve inequality, it removes limits to power and expands the field of state action. It distorts justice because the only way to solve inequality politically is for the state to have the power to treat individuals unequally. Thus the struggle to eliminate inequality ends up destroying the most important form of equality for an open society: equality before the law.

10Jun2009 | Carlos Rodríguez Braun | 1 comment | Continued

Capital Letters

What Do We Do About the Subsidy of History?
I concurred on one point with “The Subsidy of History” by Kevin Carson (June 2008). It is not sound to view the historical development of capitalism as though it evolved strictly by fairness, without including the vices of mankind. Surely history is better stated by Burton Folsom [...]

1Nov2008 | agardner | 0 comments | Continued

Book Reviews – November 2007

  • Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastrophe

    by Robert Gellately Reviewed by Richard M. Ebeling
  • Depression, War, and Cold War
    by Robert Higgs Reviewed by Burton Folsom, Jr.
  • Great Philanthropic Mistakes
    by Timothy Sandefur Reviewed by George C. Leef

  • Elements of Justice
    by David Schmidtz Reviewed by Aeon J. Skoble
1Nov2007 | George C. Leef | 0 comments | Continued