After the collapse of socialism in the Soviet Union, many socialists, reluctant to abandon their socialist convictions, shifted to a belief in “market socialism.” The great Marxist philosopher G.A. Cohen was not among them, and in this week’s column, I’d like to examine what he says about market socialism in his essay “The Future of a
In recent decades, proposals for a universal basic income (UBI) have aroused a good deal of attention, but supporters of the free market have for the most part been averse to the idea. In his article “A Hayekian Case for Free Markets and a Universal Basic Income” (in Michael Cholbi and Michael Weber, eds., The Future of Work, Technology, and Basic
Burning Down the House: How Libertarian Philosophy Was Corrupted by Delusion and Greed by Andrew Koppelman St. Martin’s Press, 2022, 320 pp. Andrew Koppelman, a distinguished legal academic who teaches law and political science at Northwestern University, has a quality that few of his fellow academics possess. He is able to find merit in views he
Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom was a bestseller when it was published in 1944, and it has remained ever since one of the classic works in the literature of liberty. Many people, though, find it hard to understand. After Glenn Beck featured the book on his television show in 2010, resulting in a surge in demand for it, one noted speaker at
Social Justice Fallacies by Thomas Sowell Basic Books, 2023; 224 pp. Thomas Sowell has given us a penetrating criticism of the approach to justice taken by many political philosophers, especially John Rawls and his innumerable followers. He says that they construct an image of the way society ought to be but fail to ask whether their plans are
Libertarian Autobiographies: Moving toward Freedom in Today’s World edited by Jo Ann Cavallo and Walter E. Block Palgrave Macmillan, 2023; xx + 533 pp. Jo Ann Cavallo and Walter Block have done those interested in libertarianism a great service, but they have set the reviewer of their book an impossible task. They have gathered together eighty
Limitarianism: The Case against Extreme Wealth by Ingrid RobeynsAstra House, 2022; 301 pp. Some people have vastly more income and wealth than others, and this situation greatly disturbs Ingrid Robeyns, who teaches ethics at Utrecht University. She does not want to replace the market economy with central planning, but no one should be
Tras el colapso del socialismo en la Unión Soviética, muchos socialistas, reacios a abandonar sus convicciones socialistas, pasaron a creer en el «socialismo de mercado». El gran filósofo marxista G.A. Cohen no estaba entre ellos, y en la columna de esta semana me gustaría examinar lo que dice sobre el socialismo de mercado en su ensayo «El
En las últimas décadas, las propuestas de una renta básica universal (RBU) han suscitado una gran atención, pero los partidarios del libre mercado se han mostrado en su mayoría reacios a la idea. En su artículo «A Hayekian Case for Free Markets and a Universal Basic Income» (en Michael Cholbi y Michael Weber, eds., The Future of Work, Technology,
Burning Down the House: How Libertarian Philosophy Was Corrupted by Delusion and Greed por Andrew Koppelman St. Martin’s Press, 2022, 320 pp. Andrew Koppelman, un distinguido académico jurídico que enseña leyes y ciencias políticas en la Universidad de Northwestern, tiene una cualidad que pocos de sus colegas académicos poseen. Es capaz de
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