Sparks Commentary

So I recently finished listening to an audiobook about the Norwegian-American economist Thorstein Veblen , who lived from 1857 to 1929. It w...

So I recently finished an audiobook about “The German Historical School of Economics,” an important school for economic thought . They were ...

“But this long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too usele...

So I recently listened to an audiobook called “Struggle over the Keynesian Heritage.” It was the sequel to an earlier audiobook called “Keyn...

“A commodity appears, at first sight, a very trivial thing, and easily understood. Its analysis shows that it is, in reality, a very queer t...

“Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they. H...

I once read “The Communist Manifesto”  itself in English translation in 2012, because it is a shorter work that requires very little time...

You're applying for a dream job at a particular organization. You “just know” that this occupation is right for you – or, at least, th...

“The first man, who, after enclosing a piece of ground, took it into his head to say, 'This is mine,' and found people simple eno...

One day, a man named Bob goes to the store to buy some milk for his family. Since the price is only $2.00 per gallon that day, he decides ...

"The distinguishing feature of Communism is not the abolition of property generally, but the abolition of bourgeois property. But mod...

We've all heard stories about how bad things were during the Great Depression , with extensive poverty and massive unemployment - perh...

One of the central tenets of Marxism is the "labor theory of value," which is the idea that the economic value of something is d...

"Competition engenders misery, it foments civil war, it 'changes natural zones,' mixes up nationalities, causes trouble in fa...

I  posted earlier that one of the most sacred tenets of liberalism is the goal of equality of condition: the idea that there should be no...

One of the most sacred tenets of liberalism is the goal of equality of condition: the idea that there should be no rich or poor, but that ...

I was recently reading the Old Testament with my family, and we read 1st Samuel Chapter 8. I found an application to today which is somew...

Ronald Reagan "How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-commun...

" A spectre is haunting Europe - the spectre of communism . All the Powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcis...

Our healthcare is about to cost a lot more, thanks to the new taxes in Mr. Obama’s bill. (The bill was passed a while back, but it doesn’t...