Eduard Braun

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Socialism Is Not Groupthink, but Statethink: A Brief Comment on Jordan Peterson

09/20/2022 Eduard Braun

Jordan Peterson has linked identity politics to socialism. Instead, socialism is about empowering the state.

Socialism Is Not Groupthink, but Statethink: A Brief Comment on Jordan Peterson

09/17/2022 Mises Wire Eduard Braun

According to Jordan Peterson, left-wing totalitarians are characterized by an ideology in which group identity is paramount. I will demonstrate that this is a misconception. Historically, socialists...

Reply to Dr. Howden on Opportunity Costs

09/09/2016 Eduard Braun

Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 19, no. 2 (Summer 2016) Howden (2016) dedicates a large part of his response to criticizing my way of dealing with and classifying the concept of opportunity costs in my book (Braun, 2014). I must start by

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