Djordje Bokun

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08/19/2024 Mises Wire Djordje Bokun

The mid 2000s saw a new intellectual movement emerge on the scene under the name of “New Atheism.” Representatives of the movement saw themselves as champions of the scientific method, of evidence...

Human Ignorance Is an Unstable Basis for Liberty and Praxeology

07/01/2024 Mises Wire Djordje Bokun

In his review of F . A . Hayek ’s Constitution of Liberty , Murray Rothbard takes issue with the Hayekian case for freedom, which rests solely on human ignorance. On this view, reason is dogmatic and...

Is Libertarianism Just Another Form of Critical Theory?

04/20/2024 Mises Wire Djordje Bokun

There’s no shortage of ill-informed criticisms of libertarian theory across all sides of the political spectrum. To most leftists, the libertarian is selfish, greedy, elitist, disdainful of the poor...

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Human Ignorance Is an Unstable Basis for Liberty and Praxeology

07/18/2024 Djordje Bokun

While F.A. Hayek saw human ignorance as the basis for what he called spontaneous order, Ludwig von Mises saw human reason as the basis for praxeology.

Is Libertarianism Just Another Form of Critical Theory?

04/30/2024 Djordje Bokun

Libertarianism is criticized on all sides, but a new criticism has emerged that claims libertarianism is little more than another form of critical theory. Like the other complaints, this one is based on fallacious thinking.

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