by Alan Forester-Kaiser | Feb 11, 2023 | bookchin, caucus, decentralization, ecology, hayek, housing, human action, infrastructure, planning, pollution, public choice, social liberty
The Libertarian Party (US): a political party in the United States that promotes civil liberties, non-interventionism, laissez-faire capitalism, and limiting the size and scope of government. The party was conceived in August 1971 at meetings in the home of David F....
by Alan Forester-Kaiser | Oct 1, 2021 | ecology
Marcel Wissenburg ABSTRACT Libertarians are not famed as friends of nature – but is that a matter of principle? I examine consequentialist, deontological and teleological versions of left- and right-libertarianism on three dimensions: their concepts of natural law,...
by Alan Forester-Kaiser | Mar 3, 2017 | bookchin, ecology, property, tragedy of commons
Almost a century and a half ago Thomas Carlyle described economics as “the dismal science.” The term was to stick, especially as it applied to economics premised on a supposedly unavoidable conflict between “insatiable needs” and “scarce...
by Alan Forester-Kaiser | Feb 3, 2017 | bookchin, ecology
Here, I shall try to show how the new technology can be used ecologically to crystallize man’s sense of dependence upon the natural world into the human experience, so we can contribute to the achievement of human wholeness. Town and Country Classical utopians...