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Is Alan Greenspan an Objectivist?
Aug 03 '11 at 06:36
Rick ♦
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Is fractional-reserve banking legitimate?
Oct 02 '12 at 07:15
anthony
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Why is wealth not a zero-sum game?
May 10 '11 at 15:36
Diana Hsieh ♦
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Should we advocate restraint to avoid over-exploitation of natural resources?
Oct 13 '10 at 22:36
John Hoffman ♦
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Is "economic force" a valid concept?
Jul 31 '12 at 22:25
user890
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Why would America's industrial workers embrace global capitalism when it is likely to eliminate their jobs or slash their wages?
Oct 09 '11 at 14:50
Justice
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Are countervailing tariffs justifiable according to Objectivism?
Feb 17 '11 at 09:06
Michael Labeit
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What is the best source for technical economic knowledge?
Oct 08 '10 at 07:30
Andrew Miner ♦
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Why are so many of the top billionaires democrats or worse?
Mar 25 '12 at 13:13
anthony
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Is "game theory" a valid approach?
Oct 12 '10 at 22:40
John Hoffman ♦
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Can the laissez faire model be applied to markets without creating a wildly chaotic economy?
Feb 16 '14 at 11:23
Ideas for Life ♦
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What is the Objectivist view of Praxeology?
Nov 24 '10 at 01:24
JJMcVey ♦
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Is America the only place that the Objectivist movement can flourish?
Jun 05 '11 at 15:25
Ideas for Life ♦
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Is Laissez-faire capitalism a utopian fairy tale?
Feb 19 '14 at 17:59
anthony
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Does a wide income gap necessarily lead to social instability?
Jun 20 '11 at 00:52
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What do you think about the short-term success of China's authoritarian "capitalism"?
Sep 03 '11 at 21:16
Danneskjold_repo
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Shouldn't small businesses get a fair shot at success on a level playing field?
Oct 19 '12 at 15:15
JK Gregg ♦
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Is the existing distribution of property tainted by its historical evolution?
Oct 25 '12 at 22:40
user890
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Doesn't capitalism also ration healthcare?
Feb 04 '13 at 20:16
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Is blacklisting as part of "economic warfare" a legitimate concept?
Jan 31 '13 at 13:23
anthony
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Is "trickle down economics" legitimate?
Sep 28 '10 at 17:06
Andrew Dalton ♦
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Is freedom itself a Pollyanna concept for unstable parts of the globe?
Feb 14 '12 at 13:59
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Is it possible to be successful despite majority opinion?
Mar 09 '13 at 15:31
anthony
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What do you think of John Mackey's "Conscious Capitalism"?
Apr 07 '11 at 16:28
DarthGalt
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In what manner would currency exist in a global Laissez-Faire economy?
Apr 10 '13 at 13:58
Kyle Haight ♦
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What is "rent seeking"?
May 03 '11 at 16:24
Kyle Haight ♦
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Should government employees get a retirement pension?
May 23 '12 at 00:25
PhilosoScience
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Has the banking business model been the cause of major depressions?
Jul 10 '13 at 11:33
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Did government intervention bring about the current flood crisis?
May 21 '11 at 17:19
dream_weaver ♦
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Are Objectivists more sympathetic to the Austrian or to the Chicago school of economic thought?
Jul 21 '12 at 16:09
Greg Perkins ♦♦
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Would an Objectivist support an embargo on a dictatorship?
Jul 07 '13 at 15:50
anthony
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Is foreign aid justified for distressed economic partners?
Dec 09 '12 at 17:39
El Manantial
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What's the difference between "socially objective value" and "subjective value" in a free market economy?
Aug 30 '13 at 10:24
Greg Perkins ♦♦
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Has Greece actually recovered economically? If so, then how?
Oct 15 '10 at 14:20
Greg Perkins ♦♦
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Should I continue to contribute to retirement savings?
Jun 03 '11 at 10:44
c1992w
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What is the culpability of Wall Street in the financial collapse?
Apr 05 at 14:02
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Did Alan Greenspan pull a Francisco d'Anconia on the looters?
Sep 04 '12 at 16:02
CarGuy
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Must Objectivists oppose the distribution of financial products by the treasury department?
Dec 09 '10 at 00:55
JJMcVey ♦
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What is the Objectivist position on ecosystems in nature versus property rights ?
Sep 07 '12 at 10:32
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Is government regulation of pollution and property both necessary and warranted in a mixed economy ?
Mar 07 '14 at 11:35
Danneskjold_repo
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Was NAFTA a step in the right direction according to Objectivist politics?
Jan 26 '11 at 12:59
Greg Perkins ♦♦
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Are there any limits to what one does with one's own property ?
Jul 19 '11 at 09:38
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Do people donate to charity when the economy does well?
Jan 17 '13 at 15:02
Ideas for Life ♦
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How is "new money" created in a laissez-faire economy?
Mar 09 '14 at 15:07
Ideas for Life ♦
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How does one defend global free trade in today's economic climate?
Aug 03 '11 at 09:06
Danneskjold_repo
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Should we reduce inequality in order to achieve full employment?
Jun 01 '14 at 18:17
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Is the diffusion of responsibility responsible for the free-rider problem?
Dec 20 '10 at 19:46
Mindy Newton ♦
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Do large-scale, beneficial projects like the Interstate Highway System ever get created in an objectivist society?
Sep 09 '11 at 13:25
Raman ♦
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Does Objectivism uphold the Puritan Work Ethic?
Aug 19 '14 at 22:14
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What is "free market fundamentalism"?
Dec 23 '10 at 01:20
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