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Tag: Mondragon

Hayekian Insights on Capitalism Part II: Capitalism and labor

Posted on March 19, 2015April 19, 2015 by Gus

Introduction

I am drawing a critical distinction between the role played by the market in coordinating human plans and the institutional forms people adopted in pursuing those plans.  Market advocates usually assume because the market is formally voluntary, institutions arising … Read more

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Paradoxes of Freedom: Civil Society and the Market Order

Posted on November 9, 2014September 21, 2019 by Gus

Published in Cosmos and Taxis, Vol. 2, Issue 1, 2014.

Abstract

Civil society maximizes individual freedom.  Spontaneous orders emerge from principles expressed more completely within civil society and enable cooperation to take more complex forms than in their absence.  … Read more

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Exploring economic freedom as if freedom and people actually mattered

Posted on July 20, 2013August 26, 2013 by Gus

Two quotations, juxtaposed, summarize the errors into which modern American defenses of ‘free markets’ and capitalism have entered. In the process these errors led to abandoning any real meaning for liberty or human well-being.  Right wing libertarians in particular sincerely … Read more

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Capitalism vs. the Market II: re-integrating markets into civil society

Posted on February 27, 2013February 27, 2013 by Gus

The solution to ending capitalism’s dominance over human beings and human values has two dimensions. First, capitalist enterprises must be subordinated to the larger ethical standards of civil society.  The “capitalist ecosystem” I described in Part I must be reabsorbed … Read more

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Mondragon- One Step Beyond Capitalism

Posted on September 27, 2012July 1, 2021 by Gus

From September 8 to 14 I took the opportunity to join a study-tour of the worker owned Mondragon Cooperatives  in the Basque Country of northern Spain. It had been organized by the Praxis Peace Institute to expose Americans to the … Read more

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