Libertarian.ie

Political Economy

Socialist

• http://www.infoshop.org/economics/index.php
  Infoshop.org - Economics Kiosk
• http://debs.indstate.edu/a512s6_1912.pdf
  Socialism for the Farmer Who Farms the Farm.
  Rip-saw Series, No. 15. Saint Louis, Mo.: The National Rip-Saw Publishing Co., 1912. 32 pp. Pamphlet A512 .S6 1912p. PDF
• http://debs.indstate.edu/b9273s6_1918.pdf
  Budden, Alf. The Slave of the Farm: Being Letters from Alf. Budden to a Fellow Farm Slave and Comrade in Revolt. Vancouver, B.C.: Dominion Executive Committee, Socialist Party of Canada,<1918>. 63 pp. Pamphlet B927.3 .S6 1918p. PDF
• http://www.iww.org/PDF/socialismmadeeasy.pdf
  James Connolly:
  Socialism Made Easy - by James Connolly, 1909 - (PDF File).
• http://www.iww.org/PDF/Connolly2.pdf
  James Connolly:
  Labor, Nationality, and Religion - by J. Connolly, 1910 - (PDF File).
• http://debs.indstate.edu/a512s63_1911.pdf
  Socialism: What It is and How to Get It.
  Milwaukee, Wis.: Political Action Company, 1911. 32 pp. Pamphlet A512 .S63 1911p. PDF
• http://debs.indstate.edu/a878i5_1910.pdf
  Atkinson, Warren. Incentive Under Socialism.
  Chicago: C. H. Kerr, <1910>. 64 pp. Pamphlet A878 .I5 1910p. PDF
• http://debs.indstate.edu/a152e17_1919.pdf
  Ablett, Noah. Easy Outlines of Economics.
  Sheffield : Plebs League, 1919. Pamphlet A152 .E17 1919p. PDF
• http://debs.indstate.edu/b436p3_1900c1.pdf
  The Parable of the Water Tank.
  Pocket Library of Socialism, No. 18. Chicago, U.S.A.: C. H. Kerr, <19-->. Pamphlet B436 .P3 1900p. Copy 1. PDF
• http://debs.indstate.edu/a512d9_1910.pdf
  Dynamite for the Brain.
  Milwaukee, Wis.: State Executive Board, S.-D.P., <1910?>. 16 pp. Pamphlet A512 .D9 1910p. PDF

Georgist/Geoism

• The Henry George Institute, USA
  http://www.henrygeorge.org
  In accordance with the philosophy of Henry George, the Henry George Institute holds that all persons have a right to the use of the earth and that all have a right to the fruits of their labor. To implement these rights it is proposed that the rent of land be taken by the community as public revenue, and that all taxes on labor and the fruits of labor be abolished. The Institute believes with George that "liberty means justice and justice is the natural law," and that the social and economic ills besetting the world today are the result of non-conformance to natural law. The Institute pledges itself to bring this philosophy to the attention of the public by all suitable means.
• http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/george.htm
  Henry George, 1839-1897.
  THE HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT WEBSITE
  New School University, 66 West 12th St., New York, NY 10011
  Major works of Henry George
  Resources on Henry George (and Georgism)
• The Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, USA
  http://www.schalkenbach.org/
  Robert Schalkenbach Foundation (RSF) was organized in 1925 to promote public awareness of the social philosophy and economic reforms advocated by Henry George (1839-1897), including the "single tax on land values". To this end RSF supports public advocacy, scholarly research, and the publication and distribution of books and articles, particularly those of Henry George, including his classic work, Progress and Poverty. This and others works can be found in our on-line library at this website, and these and others are available for purchase from our on-line bookstore.
• http://www.schalkenbach.org/library/george.henry/
  Online Books by Henry George
  
• http://debs.indstate.edu/b592r4_1913.pdf
  Bigelow, Herbert S. The Religion of Inspired Politics.
  Cincinnati, OH: Peoples Church, Grand Opera House, 1913. 22pp. Pamphlet B592 .R4 1913p. PDF
• http://debs.indstate.edu/b8785p6_1900.pdf
  Brown, James Roger. A Plain Talk on Taxation.
  2nd ed. New York: Manhattan Single Tax Club, between, <1900>. 24 pp. Pamphlet B878.5 .P6 1900p. PDF
• http://www.rationalreview.com/guest/080604.shtml
  The case for Georgism
  by Fred Foldvary
  RationalReview.com
  If the civic works are provided by private enterprise, including residential associations and proprietary communities, then this capitalization problem is avoided. The land owners provide the services and use the site rentals to pay for them. This is like a hotel financing its recreation, corridors, elevators, and lobby from the room charges. Private communities in fact use Georgist assessments and rentals to finance their community works. Hence, geoism does not necessarily imply a governmental land-value tax, since the private implementation is totally consistent with the principles of Henry George.
• http://www.isil.org/resources/fnn/2003summer/fred-foldvary.html
  Apparatchik Economics: The Past and the Future
  Fred E. Foldvary
  (text of ISIL Vilnius speech)
  Private communities are voluntarily financed by basing the fee on benefits. The benefits are reflected in the rent that tenants are willing to pay. Governments are financed by force based on ability to pay, meaning government's ability to extract. Taxes on income, sales, and value added have no direct relation to any benefit... Governments could act more like private communities if they at least financed their services according to the benefit principle. Since land value reflects the capitalized benefits, a tax on land value would at least pay back land values generated by civic goods, and without imposing the excess burdens caused by taxes on capital and labor. Since the land has a fixed supply and has no cost of production, charges based on land value do not hurt productivity.

Mutualism

• http://www.mutualist.org/id47.html
  Studies in Mutualist Political Economy
  By Kevin A. Carson
  Red Lion Press
  In the mid-nineteenth century, a vibrant native American school of anarchism, known as individualist anarchism, existed alongside the other varieties. Like most other contemporary socialist thought, it was based on a radical interpretation of Ricardian economics. The classical individualist anarchism of Josiah Warren, Benjamin Tucker and Lysander Spooner was both a socialist movement and a subcurrent of classical liberalism. It agreed with the rest of the socialist movement that labor was the source of exchange-value, and that labor was entitled to its full product. Unlike the rest of the socialist movement, the individualist anarchists believed that the natural wage of labor in a free market was its product, and that economic exploitation could only take place when capitalists and landlords harnessed the power of the state in their interests. Thus, individualist anarchism was an alternative both to the increasing statism of the mainstream socialist movement, and to a classical liberal movement that was moving toward a mere apologetic for the power of big business.
• http://www.worklessparty.org/timework/srintro.pdf
  Dilke’s Source and Remedy: fictitious capital, unproductive labour, inconvertible paper money, superfluous things
  By Tom Walker
• http://www.worklessparty.org/timework/source%20and%20remedy.pdf
  THE SOURCE AND REMEDY OF THE NATIONAL DIFFICULTIES, DEDUCED FROM PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL ECONOMY,
  IN A Letter TO LORD JOHN RUSSELL
• http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/anarchist_archives/proudhon/dana.html
  Proudhon and his "Bank of the People",
  by Charles A. Dana. New York: Benj. J. Tucker, Publisher 1896.
  Now, the same contradiction must attach to property, and the adage of Proudhon merely states it in the strongest language. Yet those who speak of it omit half the proposition, and that the first half, "Property is an institution of justice," in order to dwell on the negative, "Property is Robbery." But, taking both clauses together, this is no more than to say: While the right of possession is founded in absolute justice, and without it society could not exist, in the present state of unrelated and hostile individual interests Property becomes an irresistible means, combining the elements of fraud and violence, of taking from the producers, or from those into whose hands the chances of the battle have flung them, the products of labor without giving a fair equivalent, and quite as often without giving any equivalent at all. Or, as Proudhon has it, Property is Robbery.
  ..."From all this it follows that property will yet be transformed according to a positive, complete, social, and true idea; whereby, the old institution of property being abolished, it will become equally real and beneficent for all. And the proof of this is, once again, that Property is a Contradiction."
• http://www.libertarian.co.uk/lapubs/econn/econn102.htm
  Austrian and Marxist Theories of Monopoly-Capital: A Mutualist Synthesis
  Kevin A. Carson
  Economic Notes No. 102
  An occasional publication of the Libertarian Alliance,
  Suite 35, 2 Landsdowne Row, Mayfair, London W1J 6HL.
  For Tucker, the fundamental difference between nineteenth century capitalism and a real free market lay in the four privileges or monopolies by which the state robbed the laborer of the proper market returns on his labor: the money monopoly, by which the state limited free entry into the money and credit markets, and thus enabled the suppliers of credit to charge a monopoly price; the land monopoly, by which the state enforced absentee "property" claims not founded on occupancy and cultivation; the tariff monopoly; and the patent monopoly. The abolition of the money monopoly (capitalization requirements, licensing, legal tender laws, and other regulations on the private issuance of currency) would result in free market entry into the banking market until the price of credit fell to the labor cost of administering loans. Abolition of the landlord monopoly would cause the price of land to fall to the labor value of improvements (making allowance for economic rent). The effect of removing all four monopolies would be to lower the rate of profit, as such, to zero.
• http://flag.blackened.net/daver/anarchism/iron_fist.html
  The Iron Fist Behind the Invisible Hand
  Corporate Capitalism as a State-Guaranteed System of Privilege
  by Kevin A. Carson
  Manorialism, commonly, is recognized to have been founded by robbery and usurpation; a ruling class established itself by force, and then compelled the peasantry to work for the profit of their lords. But no system of exploitation,including capitalism, has ever been created by the action of a free market. Capitalism was founded on an act of robbery as massive as feudalism. It has been sustained to the present by continual state intervention to protect its system of privilege, without which its survival is unimaginable.
• http://www.systemfehler.de/en/neo/index.htm
  Silvio Gesell
  The NATURAL ECONOMIC ORDER
  translated by Philip Pye M.A.
  In the Natural Economic Order founded upon egoism everyone must be assured the full proceeds of his own labour, and must be allowed to dispose of these proceeds as he thinks fit.
  ...An economic order thus founded upon egoism is in no way opposed to the higher impulses which preserve the species. On the contrary, it furnishes the opportunities for altruistic actions and the means for performing them. It strengthens the altruistic impulses by making their satisfaction possible. Under the opposite form of economic order everyone would send needy friends to an insurance company and sick relatives to a hospital, the State would make all personal assistance superfluous. With such an order it seems to me that many tender and valuable impulses must be lost.
• http://www.mutualist.org/id6.html
  Mutualist.Org: Free Market Anti-Capitalism
  Suggested Reading

Austrian School

• http://www.mises.org/humanaction.asp
  Ludwig von Mises Institute
  Human Action
  The core of any system of economic theory is the explanation of how prices are determined. As Mises... himself put it, ÒEconomics is mainly concerned with the analysis of the determination of money prices of goods and services exchanged on the market.Ó... there is presented for the first time a complete and systematic theory of how actual market prices are determined. Of course, Mises did not create this theory out of whole cloth. In fact, the theory of price elaborated in Human Action represents the crowning achievement of the Austrian School of economics. It is the culmination of the approach to price theory originated by Carl Menger in 1871 and developed further by a handful of brilliant economists of the generation intervening between Menger and Mises. ... MisesÕs outstanding contribution in Human Action was to singlehandedly revive this approach and elaborate it into a coherent and systematic theory of price determination.
• http://www.mises.org/rothbard/mes.asp
  Man, Economy, and State, with Power and Market
  by Murray N. Rothbard
  The sheer breathtaking scope of Rothbard's vision is enough to spark an idealist's interest in the "dismal" science. Here is economics for living, breathing human beings; not statistics, computer models, and arcane mathematical symbols. First published in 1962, Man, Economy, and State is something very different from the narrow worm's-eye view of the field afforded by modern economics texts: a systematic treatise, a comprehensive synthesis of economic thought, a majestic overview of basic principles and their application. Except for Ludwig von Mises' monumental Human Action (1949), Rothbard's book is the only such treatise published since the early 20th century, when the "principles" book was the standard form in which economists presented their ideas. Designed to be accessible to any interested reader, and presupposing no formal training in economics, mathematics, or statistics, the book covers nearly all of basic economic theory, from barter and indirect exchange to competition and monopoly, public expenditures, money and interest, and inflation and the business cycle.

Classical Liberal

• http://oll.libertyfund.org/Essays/StudyGuides/PoliticalEconomy.html
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