There are compelling reasons to believe there is an unhealthy growth imperative inherent in private enterprise market systems that threatens the environment. Unfortunately, many who criticize a dysfunctional growth imperative fail to make a compelling case. This article argues that too often...

This article pays homage to E. K. Hunt who was a founding member of URPE who helped build chapters on several campuses in western states. Much of the author’s own research work over the past forty years was an attempt to strengthen criticisms Hunt voiced long ago about markets and blind...

Will there be an international climate treaty to follow Kyoto when it expires in 2012, and if so what will it look like? Many climate justice and anti-capitalist spokespersons denounce the Kyoto Protocol as a “pretend solution†and reject international carbon trading altogether. This...

This article argues against contribution-based conceptions of economic justice and in favor of distribution according to effort or sacrifice. It responds to important objections implicit in the work of Robert Nozick and John Rawls, and argues that market socialist economies cannot avoid being...

Political economists who have abandoned the Marxian labor theory of value during the past few decades due to logical inconsistencies have failed to replace it with a logically sound theory that explains how and why the employment relationship is almost always exploitative even when labor markets...

We argue for the feasibility and desirability of a "third way" besides markets and authoritarian planning by (1) describing the main features of a model of "participatory planning," and (2) responding to objections that the system requires too many meetings, is too intrusive, misfocuses...

When worker-owned cooperatives trade goods and services at market prices they tend to reproduce differences in payments to members of more advantaged co-ops compared to members of less advantaged co-ops. Members of worker-owned cooperatives who believe this violates “cooperative principles”...

<DIV>The crumbling of the Berlin Wall, the fall of the iron curtain, and the Reagan and Thatcher "revolutions" all owe a tremendous debt to F. A. Hayek. Economist, social and political theorist, and intellectual historian, Hayek passionately championed individual liberty and condemned the dangers of...</div>