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

What Auron Macintyre Gets Wrong about Markets

01/03/2025 Friday Philosophy David Gordon

[ The Total State: How Liberal Democracies Become Tyrannies. by Auron Macintyre, Regnery 2024; 173 pp.] Auron MacIntyre is the host of a popular podcast on BlazeTV, on which he interviews guests, most...

The Inflationist View of History

12/27/2024 Friday Philosophy David Gordon

Everybody knows that Lord Keynes favored an inflationary monetary policy. He thought that expanding the money was a way that the business cycle could be bypassed, by making booms perpetual. Of course...

Ralph Raico: A Great Historian

12/20/2024 Friday Philosophy David Gordon

[ The World at War by Ralph Raico. Transcribed and annotated by Edward W, Fuller. Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2024, 198pp.] We owe Edward W. Fuller—who is himself an outstanding historian—a debt of...

Publications

Deneen’s Common Good Statism

09/05/2023 David Gordon

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

07/13/2023 David Gordon

[ 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

07/22/2022 David Gordon

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

Media

New Austrian Insights

01/07/2024 David Gordon

It should be clear from the articles in this book that the Austrian School is thriving. Per Bylund has rendered a great service in bringing the scholarship in A Modern Guide to Austrian Economics to our attention.

What Is Consent?

12/09/2024 David Gordon

Buchanan and Tullock‘s The Calculus of Consent influentially applies economic ideas to politics, focusing on methodological individual. However, there are a few pitfalls about which readers should be aware.

The Indian Rope Trick

12/03/2024 David Gordon

The political theorist Anthony de Jasay takes on the left‘s ideas of equality, and David Gordon is there to agree—and disagree. Jasay likens the left‘s view of equality to the Indian Rope Trick.