Philosophy

Friedman on market *and* government failures — which is worse?

“All economists—monetarists, Keynesians, or what-not—recognize that there is such a thing as market failure. I believe that what distinguishes economists is not whether they recognize market failure, but how much importance they attach to government failure, especially when government seeks to remedy what are said to be market failures. That difference in turn is related […]

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Foucault versus the facts of reality

Excerpt from Professor Raymond Tallis’s review of Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont, Intellectual Impostures: Postmodern Philosophers’ Abuse of Science (London: Profile Books, 1998). Also translated as Fashionable Nonsense. “Eventually the postmodern Theorists started to attract the attention of experts in the disciplines into which they had strayed. Linguists looked at their linguistics and found it littered

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New: Brazilian Portuguese translation of *Explaining Postmodernism*

I’m happy that Faro Editorial, out of Brazil has published Guerra cultural: Como o pós-modernismo criou uma narrativa de desconstrução do ocidente. (Culture War: How Postmodernism Created a Narrative of Deconstruction of the West). It’s a new translation of my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault, the thesis of which is: The

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Murray Rothbard, “Free Market” [Atlas Intellectuals]

This week in the Atlas Intellectuals course on Capitalism we will see Murray Rothbard´s Free Market In this essay, selected for The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics, Rothbard outlines the key moral and economic features of free markets. The full course: https://www.atlassociety.org/course/capitalism. Other Atlas Intellectuals courses on Socialism, Objectivity, Money, Robotics, and more: https://www.atlassociety.org/atlas-university/atlas-intellectuals

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