C.Jay Engel

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What Austrians can Learn from The Socialist Manifesto

08/25/2019 Mises Wire C.Jay Engel

The Socialist Manifesto By Bhaskar Sunkara Publisher: Basic Books, April 2019 In seeking to understand and encapsulate the motivation for socialism’s return to the limelight over the previous decade...

In Our Hyper-Political World, Political Ideology Is More Important Than It Should Be

06/17/2019 Power & Market C.Jay Engel

The thesis here is that libertarianism as a political theory only carries the veneer of importance and centrality due to the strength and power of the democratic, administrative state in our time...

Why Bother Studying Economic Theory?

04/16/2019 Mises Wire C.Jay Engel

What is most exciting about the Austrian methodology of economic inquiry is that, to quote Mises himself, it does not relegate economics to the classrooms, to the “statistical offices,” and to...

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