David Gordon

David Gordon is Senior Fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute. He was educated at UCLA, where he earned his PhD in history. He is the author of Resurrecting Economics, An Introduction to Economic Reasoning, An Austro-Libertarian View (three volumes), and Resurrecting Marx.  He is also editor of Secession, State, and Liberty and coeditor of H.B. Acton’s Morals of Markets and Other Essays.

Dr. Gordon is the editor of the  Mises Review and the Journal of Libertarian Studies, and a contributor to such journals as Analysis, the International Philosophic Quarterly, the Philosophical Quarterly, the Journal of Libertarian Studies, and the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics.

Articles

Comrade Aristotle?
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[ Ethics and the Conflicts of Modernity: An Essay on Desire, Practical Reasoning, and Narrative by Alasdair MacIntyre (Cambridge University Press, 2016; 322 pp.)] The death of Alasdair MacIntyre on...
Lord of the Manor
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[ Debunking FDR: The Man and the Myths by Mary Grabar (Regnery Publishing, 2025, xvii + 364 pp.)] Mary Grabar—who will be remembered for her excellent demolition of the leftist icon Howard Zinn (...
Anarchy, State, and Bader
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[ Robert Nozick by Ralf M. Bader (Continuum, 2010, xii + 136 pp.)] Ralf Bader—a distinguished Swiss philosopher and authority on Kant—wrote an excellent guidebook to Robert Nozick’s Anarchy, State...
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Publications

Deneen’s Common Good Statism
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It’s likely that many readers of The Austrian support the free market and also support “traditional” social values, but in Patrick Deneen’s opinion, this is an unstable amalgam. Deneen, a political theorist who teaches at Notre Dame, thinks that the
Review: Slouching Towards Utopia
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[ Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century by J. Bradford DeLong, Basic Books, 2022 viii + 605 pp.] J. Bradford DeLong, who teaches economics at UC Berkeley and was a protégé of Larry Summer’s dislikes Austrian economics
Lost Continetti
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The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism By Matthew Continetti Basic Books, 2022 503 pp. Why should readers of The Austrian be interested in this book? At first glance, it appears that we shouldn’t be. Though the history of American
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Media

Truth or Consequences
David Gordon

The transatlantic slave trade from Africa is a well-known chapter in the history of slavery in the Western Hemisphere, but much lesser known is the enslavement of Native Americans. Many of them were shipped to plantations in the Caribbean where they were worked to death.

Lord of the Manor
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Dr. David Gordon reviews Mary Grabar‘s Debunking FDR, which examines Roosevelt‘s paternalistic worldview and how it shaped his political life and his presidency. 

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