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In a world, where men kill each other to stay “fully employed”…

in a dystopian present, in which innocent human actions are alleged to harm society and are brutally suppressed…

a new hope against government coercion and deception was about to take root.

Dmitry A. Chernikov presents
Summa Against
the Keynesians

A Treatise on Economics

In which I get medieval on Keynes’ ass.

Do I have the arcane analytical skills and cunning rivaling that of Mises himself?
Read the book to find out!

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the Keynesians

A Treatise on Economics

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5. On Socialist Calculation, II
May 8, 2012
 
 
4. What Is Economic Efficiency?
April 10, 2012
 
 
3. Action vs. Inaction
March 30, 2012
 
 
2. On Socialist Calculation, I
March 29, 2012
 
 
1. Killing and Letting Die
March 27, 2012

2006-2004

Power To the Juries
Restore jury nullification. (Warning: Very speculative.)

Draft Sowell
A sad transformation of a great man.

Attaining Both Security and Liberty
On the non-existent trade-off.

Whose Foreign Policy?
Let each person decide for himself.

Drug War, What Is It Good For?
A review of Drug Crazy with commentary.

The Sins of the Rulers
On Ezekiel and the judgment against a great commercial power that made war.

Soviet California
No universal preschool, please.

Even Chickens Would Benefit
From a libertarian society. A postscript.

Ideology and Social Evolution
A comparison of Rothbard and Hayek. To what extent are social institutions designed from the top down and to what extent are they self-generated?

A Government Press Release
Mostly ignored by the mainstream media.

Sowell and His Efficient Police State
"But for the inefficiency of the law-givers and the laxity, carelessness, and corruption of many of the functionaries, the last vestiges of the market economy would have long since disappeared."

Our Sicko Prisons
The problems with prison rape as punishment.

Hanson on Hiroshima
Reconsider your collectivism, Victor.

2003 and Older

Right-Opportunism
The dubious wisdom of "practical men."

Can War Be Just?
Warfare, spiritual and otherwise.

The Errors of War
Destroying evil and other silliness.

Democracy, or Who Made You King?
Who, indeed.

The Military Myth
There are millions of Communists in America. (You could be one of them.) What is the nature of their insidious plot?

Reply to Bob Murphy on Pacifism
Best kept secret or fragility of the spirit?

Wheels within Wheels
Evaluating conspiracy theories.

People Wanted
Steven Landsburg's paradoxes resolved.

The Menagerie of Happy Men
All is quiet in Baghdad.

Memo To: Jude "Saruman" Wanniski
Give the government more power to do good by squelching things, this anti-war crusader says.

Was Christ's Sacrifice Real?
Some atheists doubt it; I argue otherwise.

The Body and Theodicy
On the connection between the two.

Is Israel Special?
Not anymore.

Understanding the Salvation History
Slaves, mercenaries, children of God.

The C.S. Lewis's Trilemma
Neither a liar nor a lunatic.

Understanding the Blessed Trinity
Holy, holy, holy.

Kent State University College Libertarians
Our manifesto, when I was founding this organization in 2007.

A Religion of Death
Beetles of the world, unite!

To Ted Rall
Is that guy for real?

To WSJ on Sanctions
What works and what doesn't.

To David Gordon
On atheism, Ayn Rand, etc.

To Paul Gottfried
Oldie but goodie. Thanks for the encouragement! Also see Gottfried's archive.

To Michael Bloomberg
Sent one month before the September 11 attack. Here is Bloomberg's reply.

May 21, 2012
Ancient History

The 5 billion years of the development of life on earth, by whatever means or combination of means it proceeded, such as evolution, intelligent design, or special creation, were God’s way of intensive testing the world before humans could be … Read more »

May 20, 2012
“Moral Community”

Barnbaum uses this term in The Ethics of Autism. Highly complex definitions of it are provided. Instead, let me suggest that “moral community” should be defined simply as the set of people who as a rule treat each other justly … Read more »

May 16, 2012
Turn the Other Cheek, 4

Another idea: this is a way of convincing another that you are not his enemy. “You demand that I do X. I will comply but also out of the goodness of my heart will help you more than you ask … Read more »

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Dmitry is an economist and philosopher.

He received his BS in Computer Science in 1997 and MA in Philosophy in 2009 from Kent State University. He has spent many years contemplating economic problems. His teachers include Thomas Aquinas, Ludwig von Mises, Murray Rothbard, and David Keirsey.

Dmitry lives in Akron, Ohio.

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