The World is locked today in a fierce war of ideologies, in some ways strangely resembling the wars of religion in the Middle Ages. The doctrinal points at issue in those wars have become unintelligible to most of us today, and there are some equally strange paradoxes in the present ideological war. The Communists, who started it, not only know
Liberals stressed the importance of the invidual. The nineteenth-century liberals already considered the development of the individual the most important thing. “Individual and individualism” was the progressive and liberal slogan. Reactionaries had already attacked this position at the beginning of the nineteenth century. The rationalists and
[ Full issue of the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 20, no. 4 (2017)] The Captured Economy: How the Powerful Enrich Themselves, Slow Economic Growth, and Increase Inequality by Brink Lindsey and Steven M. Teles Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017, viii+ 221 pp. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Progressives
[ Full issue of the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 20, no. 4 (2017)] Anti-Piketty: Capital for the 21st Century Edited by Jean-Philippe Delsol, Nicholas Lecaussin, and Emmanuel Martin Washington, D.C.: Cato Institute, 2017, xxvii + 272 pp. When Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century was published in 2014 (the French edition had
El mundo está hoy encerrado en una feroz guerra de ideologías, que de alguna manera se asemeja extrañamente a las guerras de religión en la Edad Media. Los puntos doctrinales en cuestión en esas guerras se han vuelto ininteligibles para la mayoría de nosotros hoy en día, y existen algunas paradojas igualmente extrañas en la presente guerra
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