Political Theory
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Spencer and Hayek’s Liberal Evolutionism, and Why It Should Omit the Nation-State
Evolutionary social theory can form part of a liberal theory of politics, but Hayek and Spencer's evolutionary arguments to explain the emergence of freedom in mass societies are deficient.
Why “Public Goods” Don’t Justify Taxation
According to customary analysis, public goods will not be supplied efficiently. But it does not follow that the good will not be supplied at all, or in a quantity insufficient to “do the job.”
Democracy’s Road to Tyranny
The popular pastime of modern democracies of punishing the diligent and thrifty, while rewarding the lazy, improvident, and unthrifty, is cultivated via the State, fulfilling a demo-egalitarian program based on a demo-totalitarian ideology.
Mises’s Theory of Socialist Destructionism: The American Reality
Presented at Mises University 2021.
The Roots of “Anticapitalism”
Anticapitalism's origins are not found with the workers. Rather, it came from the aristocrats and middle-class intellectuals who harbored resentment and fear of the rising entrepreneurial and industrial classes.
