George Reisman's Blog on Economics, Politics, Society, and Culture

This blog is a commentary on contemporary business, politics, economics, society, and culture, based on the values of Reason, Rational Self-Interest, and Laissez-Faire Capitalism. Its intellectual foundations are Ayn Rand's philosophy of Objectivism and the theory of the Austrian and British Classical schools of economics as expressed in the writings of Mises, Böhm-Bawerk, Menger, Ricardo, Smith, James and John Stuart Mill, Bastiat, and Hazlitt, and in my own writings.

Saturday, December 12, 2020

Industrial Civilization Is Far More Beneficial than Global Warming Is Harmful

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The benefits of Industrial Civilization, i.e., the use of man-made power, specifically fossil fuels and atomic power, are so great that even...
Thursday, December 10, 2020

Non-essential Jobs

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  Any job on which anyone’s livelihood depends is essential. It is essential to that person and his family. Without it, they may not be able...
Sunday, November 29, 2020

Capitalists as a Class Reduce Profits and Raise Wages

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If capitalists did not exist, profits would equal 100% of sales revenue and an infinite percentage of zero capital invested. For proof, see ...
Tuesday, November 24, 2020

Competition and Cooperation

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Competition and cooperation are often described as opposites, with cooperation favored as “social” and competition scorned as “anti-social.”...
Monday, November 23, 2020

A Hypothesis Concerning Biden and the Election

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Having succeeded with 100s of law suits to change state election laws and thereby make it easier to fix the outcome, Biden’s camp was so con...
Saturday, November 14, 2020

A Couple of Badly Needed Facts

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Can anyone provide “authoritative” projections of the rise in sea level as of 2100, 2200, …, 3000 and of the number of square miles of land ...
Thursday, November 12, 2020

Our World Is Becoming That of 1984

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As I see our world morphing more and more into Orwell's world of 1984, with a growing inversion of truth and falsehood, I think the time...
Wednesday, November 11, 2020

Why the “Right” Should Not Actually Behave Like the “Left” Even “a Little Bit”

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Some people have objected to my tweet-thread/blogpost of Nov. 6 in the belief that it supports illegal action and a violation of private pro...
Friday, November 06, 2020

What If the "Right" Behaved a Bit Like the "Left"

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Imagine that the “Right” behaved a bit like the “Left.” Not that it would smash store windows or loot businesses, but just express itself in...
Sunday, November 01, 2020

A Possible Free-Market Way of Counteracting the Leftwing Bias of Today’s Internet Tech Companies

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Twitter, Google, Facebook, and others are frequently guilty of leftwing bias in their treatment of comments, internet searches, and publicat...
Tuesday, October 27, 2020

News Suppression and Its Implications

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News stories alleging major corruption on the part not only of the son of the Democratic candidate for President, but also on the part of th...
Sunday, October 25, 2020

How Capitalists Can Be Socialists

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At the present moment, we are witnessing a phenomenon that to many people appears bizarre and inexplicable: the phenomenon of wealthy capita...
Monday, October 19, 2020

Another Global Warming

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Melting Alpine glaciers are revealing a previous age of global warming 9,500 years ago. A race is on to retrieve artifacts from that era. (S...
Wednesday, October 14, 2020

“Progressives” Are Neanderthals

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The use of the term “progressive” as a description of advocates of Left-wing policies derives from Marxism. Marxism claimed that socialism i...
Sunday, October 11, 2020

Columbus Day 2020 II

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Columbus Day, which this year marks the 528 th anniversary of Columbus’s discovery of America, is tomorrow. Everyone who identifies himse...
Friday, October 09, 2020

My and Your Individual Preferences Matter

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Here’s my preference: I prefer global warming and rising sea levels to socialism and a life of deprivation and poverty. I prefer my car, m...
Monday, October 05, 2020

Columbus Day 2020

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Columbus Day, which this year marks the 528 th anniversary of Columbus’s discovery of America, is one week from today. Some people ask, h...
Sunday, October 04, 2020

Countering Support for Evil Causes and Canceling

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A number of major firms have contributed substantial sums of money to Black Lives Matter. Others flee from sponsoring anyone whom the Left w...
Friday, October 02, 2020

Answer to Elliot Temple

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  I’d like to add an important additional point to the argument against the government’s policy of massive violation of individual freedom t...

The Democrats Are Leading Advocates of Police Violence

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T he Democrats, who complain about police violence and want to “defund” the police, are among the greatest advocates of police violence. The...
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