David Ramsay Steele

Autor/a de Atheism Explained: From Folly to Philosophy

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David Ramsay Steele is author of From Marx to Mises (1992), co-author (with Michael Edelstein) of Three Minute Therapy (1997), and editor of Genius: In Their Own Words (2002)

Crèdit de la imatge: Antipas Ministries

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Atheism Explained: From Folly to Philosophy (2008) 85 exemplars

From Marx to Mises: Post Capitalist Society and the Challenge of Ecomic Calculation (1999) 41 exemplars

Karl Marx: Das Kapital (Library Edition) (1988) 24 exemplars

Genius in Their Own Words: The Intellectual Journeys of Seven Great 20th-Century Thinkers (2002) 3 exemplars

Orwell Your Orwell: A Worldview on the Slab (2017) 1 exemplars

The Conquistador with His Pants Down: David Ramsay Steele’s Legendary Lost Lectures (2024) 1 exemplars

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[(Karl Marx: Das Kapital: From Capitalist Ex…

I decided to read this after being called a Marxist/Communist by a former patron. I'm pretty sure she doesn't know the definition of either and I am not at all convinced that I would fall into these categories. I DO know that capitalism as we know it does NOT work in the best interests for all and it thrives and functions off the oppression of the poor. I'd say more about the actual book but I am an artist and not an economist and the theories therein were only somewhat comprehensible to me.

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viviennestrauss | Hi ha 1 ressenya més | Sep 2, 2020 |

Orwell Your Orwell: A Worldview on the Slab de David Ramsay Steele

This is an important book. The author is rational, thorough, and— perhaps most importantly — not a deluded Orwell cultist. He thinks Orwell was a great writer, but not a great thinker ... or even very original.

Some friends of mine and I interviewed the author soon after the book came out:

https://youtu.be/kvENlKjZobM

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wirkman | Oct 14, 2017 |

Karl Marx: Das Kapital (Library Edition) de David Ramsay Steele

Karl Marx believed that workers were being exploited by their capitalist employers; that they were being underpaid. He thought that the "surplus value" expropriated by bosses was too high relative to the value created by workers. To prove his point he had to assess the values of commodities, not a simple thing to do. Is the value of a commodity to be determined by the labor time that went into it? By its utility? By its scarcity? In the capitalist system, values were determined by market demand, how much consumers were willing to pay. If communism eliminated market competition, how then to determine values? This is only one of many complex problems raised by "Das Kapital," which predicts and calls for revolution because capitalism, says Marx, is wasteful and unstable and pursues money, not human welfare. Whether Marx proved his point is endlessly debatable. His predictions have had mixed results. But his book asks the right questions.

This audiobook is a good introduction to the economics of Marx and the historical impact of his book. It concludes that the Communist ideology of the Soviet Union had little to do with him.… (més)

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pjsullivan | Hi ha 1 ressenya més | Oct 23, 2011 |

From Marx to Mises: Post Capitalist Society and the… de David Ramsay Steele

This is the best review of the "socialist calculation debate," its meaning, and its post-history. A fine work in the history of economic theory and controversy.