All Posts Tagged With: "Roderick Long"
Social Cooperation, Part 2
Only individuals value, choose, and act, of course, but in an important sense the resulting social whole is greater than the sum of its individual parts.
26Aug2011 | Sheldon Richman | 19 comments | ContinuedThe Washington-Wall Street Kabuki Dance
When I watch the public furor over the ruling party’s attempt to “toughen” regulations on the financial industry, I get the same feeling I often have in a theater: Good show but it’s not real.
23Apr2010 | Sheldon Richman | 5 comments | ContinuedCommon Versus Government Property
A central contribution of Elinor Ostrom, which earned her a share of the 2009 Nobel Prize in economics, was to reclaim the commons as a legitimate form of property. (For more detail, see Peter Boettke’s December 2009 Freeman article.) Organization theorist Dick Langlois always makes it a practice in his European economic history class to [...]
19Apr2010 | Kevin A. Carson | 52 comments | ContinuedLong on Rand
I can’t recommend Roderick Long’s article “The Winnowing of Ayn Rand” too strongly. Read it here.It’s one of the responses to an essay by Douglas Rasmussen, “Why Ayn Rand: Answers and Some Questions for Discussion.”
21Jan2010 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedFrustrating Michael Moore
If Michael Moore would study a little political economy he might turn into a potent champion of individual liberty. As we see in Moore’s new movie, Capitalism: A Love Story, Moore is offended by some truly offensive things: banks engaging in wild speculation without concern for the risk, taxpayer bailouts for banks and other businesses, [...]
1Jan2010 | Sheldon Richman | 6 comments | ContinuedFree Market vs. Corporatism
Roderick Long, professor of philosophy at Auburn University and a Freeman author, has an excellent article at Cato Unbound on why libertarians are too often mistaken for defenders of corporatism. This error is tragic not only because it is an error — no two things could differ more starkly than laissez faire and the corporate [...]
11Nov2008 | Sheldon Richman | 9 comments | Continued-
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