Category Archives: Class Theory
de Jasay and The Model of the Total State
Aschwin de Wolf recently posted a a couple of old reviews of Anthony de Jasay’s “The State”. de Jasay’s work is one of the few examples of the use of … Continue reading
Monopoly Enforcement of Moral Ends is the Foundation of Statism
Allow me to address a typical canard given sympathetic treatment by Arnold Kling. Namely, the conservative clap trap that utopianism is the “ideological and doctrinal foundation” for statism. This is … Continue reading
Cathy Young: Smells Like a Neocon
A simple response to Reason Contributor Cathy Young’s piece arguing the necessity of true libertarians to support American interventionism would be to link to this article published the same day … Continue reading
The Irrationality of Politics
I apply a Public Choice methodology to model politics. Public Choice provides a positive, microeconomic model for the political process of redistribution. The essential dynamic of the model can be … Continue reading
The One Hundred Percent
The preface of Anthony de Jasay’s 1985 book, “The State,” informs us of the central theme: how state and society interact to disappoint and render each other miserable. Indeed, de … Continue reading
Class Warfare: “Worth Every Penny”
Obama, on “60 Minutes,” asserted that anyone who doubted the justice of his “execution” of Bin Laden deserved to have their head examined. Well, I doubt the “justice” of it. … Continue reading
The Calculus of Dissent
Let us return to class theory. Charles Rowley, one of “Academic Deans” of Public Choice, is exploring the deep end these days. His blog is taking on “conspiratorial” tones with … Continue reading
“The Matrix” as Ruling Class
Trinity: I know why you’re here, Neo. I know what you’ve been doing… why you hardly sleep, why you live alone, and why night after night, you sit by your … Continue reading
Revolutionary Wave: the Crack in American Exceptionalism
A spectre is now haunting Northern Africa and the Middle East–the spectre of the collapse of the American-aligned Arab Nation State. What started from a single act of self-immolation by … Continue reading
