Theodore Burczak
Biographic Data
| ID | 5605151 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Theodore Burczak |
| GIVEN NAMES | Theodore |
| FAMILY NAME | Burczak |
| SIGNATURE | BURCZAK T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Denison University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Economic Democracy, Democratic Planning, and Human Autonomy
This essay explores Fikret Adaman and Pat Devine’s position that democratic planning would expand human autonomy. It argues that economic democracy involving workplace democracy, private property, and widespread markets would generally be more autonomy enhancing than a system of democratic planning with social ownership and few markets. However, it acknowledges the problems ecological limits may place on the autonomy of future populations, making…
Knowledge, Class, and Economics
Dictating Liberty
Andrew Farrant and Edward McPhail demonstrate Hayek's willingness to support, under certain circumstances, a transitional dictator who seeks to implement an institutional structure conducive to liberty, understood to mean economic freedom. This comment links this support to Hayek's mistaken rejection of democracy as a constitutive component of freedom, which is the result of his overestimation of the epistemological abilities of judges
What Kind of Rights Do Workers Need to Eliminate Exploitation
An individual rights discourse can be used effectively in an argument against capitalist exploitation, to complement Richard McIntyre's advocacy of group rights for the same purpose in Are Worker Rights Human Rights
Hayekian Socialism, Post Critics”
An economic system with labor cooperatives, private ownership, and a basic capital grant or universal basic income is a form of market socialism that can withstand Hayek's critique
Correspondence Focusing on appropriative class justice
This paper offers a comment on George DeMartino’s insightful paper that proposes a tripartite notion of class justice. For DeMartino, class justice involves productive justice, appropriative justice, and distributive justice. The paper argues for a strong definition of appropriative justice, which would limit appropriation to productive workers, as would exist in the case of worker-owned firms. It argues against a weak definition of appropriative…
A Critique of Kirzner's Finders-Keepers Defense of Profit
Response to Butos & Koppl
(2001). Response to Butos & Koppl: Expectations, exogeneity, and evolution. Review of Political Economy: Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 87-90
Profit Expectations and Confidence
Austrian and Post-Keynesian economists both continue to make important contributions to subjectivism in economics. Yet, as the ongoing debate between members of the two schools demonstrates, Austrians and Post-Keynesians have very different views about the possibility of intertemporal coordination in a market economy. This paper returns to the debate between Hayek and Keynes in order to respond to a contemporary Austrian critique of Keynes's theo…
Ellerman's Labor Theory of Property and the Injustice of Capitalist Exploitation
The traditional Marxian arguments for the injustice of capitalist exploitation generally focus on the ownership patterns of productive property. Exploitation is thus viewed either as the result of illegitimate private ownership or as the result of the unequal distribution of productive assets. This paper seeks to contribute a different perspective on the injustice of exploitation. It argues that exploitation violates principles of appropriative a…
Appropriation, Responsibility, and Agreement
Socialism after Hayek
Socialism after Hayek recasts and reinvigorates the socialist quest for class justice by rendering it compatible with Hayek's social and economic theories. Theodore A. Burczak puts forth a conception of socialism from a postmodern perspective, drawing from the apparently opposing ideas of Marx and Hayek (the latter of whom achieved worldwide recognition in the twentieth century as a champion of the free market and fierce opponent of government in…
Socialism after Hayek
Socialism after Hayek recasts and reinvigorates the socialist quest for class justice by rendering it compatible with Hayek's social and economic theories. Theodore A. Burczak puts forth a conception of socialism from a postmodern perspective, drawing from the apparently opposing ideas of Marx and Hayek (the latter of whom achieved worldwide recognition in the twentieth century as a champion of the free market and fierce opponent of government in…
Appropriation, Responsibility, and Agreement
Profit Expectations and Confidence
Austrian and Post-Keynesian economists both continue to make important contributions to subjectivism in economics. Yet, as the ongoing debate between members of the two schools demonstrates, Austrians and Post-Keynesians have very different views about the possibility of intertemporal coordination in a market economy. This paper returns to the debate between Hayek and Keynes in order to respond to a contemporary Austrian critique of Keynes's theo…
Correspondence Focusing on appropriative class justice
This paper offers a comment on George DeMartino’s insightful paper that proposes a tripartite notion of class justice. For DeMartino, class justice involves productive justice, appropriative justice, and distributive justice. The paper argues for a strong definition of appropriative justice, which would limit appropriation to productive workers, as would exist in the case of worker-owned firms. It argues against a weak definition of appropriative…
Response to Butos & Koppl
(2001). Response to Butos & Koppl: Expectations, exogeneity, and evolution. Review of Political Economy: Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 87-90
Socialism after Hayek
Socialism after Hayek recasts and reinvigorates the socialist quest for class justice by rendering it compatible with Hayek's social and economic theories. Theodore A. Burczak puts forth a conception of socialism from a postmodern perspective, drawing from the apparently opposing ideas of Marx and Hayek (the latter of whom achieved worldwide recognition in the twentieth century as a champion of the free market and fierce opponent of government in…
Appropriation, Responsibility, and Agreement
Response to Butos & Koppl
(2001). Response to Butos & Koppl: Expectations, exogeneity, and evolution. Review of Political Economy: Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 87-90
Profit Expectations and Confidence
Austrian and Post-Keynesian economists both continue to make important contributions to subjectivism in economics. Yet, as the ongoing debate between members of the two schools demonstrates, Austrians and Post-Keynesians have very different views about the possibility of intertemporal coordination in a market economy. This paper returns to the debate between Hayek and Keynes in order to respond to a contemporary Austrian critique of Keynes's theo…
Ellerman's Labor Theory of Property and the Injustice of Capitalist Exploitation
The traditional Marxian arguments for the injustice of capitalist exploitation generally focus on the ownership patterns of productive property. Exploitation is thus viewed either as the result of illegitimate private ownership or as the result of the unequal distribution of productive assets. This paper seeks to contribute a different perspective on the injustice of exploitation. It argues that exploitation violates principles of appropriative a…
A Critique of Kirzner's Finders-Keepers Defense of Profit
Correspondence Focusing on appropriative class justice
This paper offers a comment on George DeMartino’s insightful paper that proposes a tripartite notion of class justice. For DeMartino, class justice involves productive justice, appropriative justice, and distributive justice. The paper argues for a strong definition of appropriative justice, which would limit appropriation to productive workers, as would exist in the case of worker-owned firms. It argues against a weak definition of appropriative…
Hayekian Socialism, Post Critics”
An economic system with labor cooperatives, private ownership, and a basic capital grant or universal basic income is a form of market socialism that can withstand Hayek's critique
What Kind of Rights Do Workers Need to Eliminate Exploitation
An individual rights discourse can be used effectively in an argument against capitalist exploitation, to complement Richard McIntyre's advocacy of group rights for the same purpose in Are Worker Rights Human Rights
Dictating Liberty
Andrew Farrant and Edward McPhail demonstrate Hayek's willingness to support, under certain circumstances, a transitional dictator who seeks to implement an institutional structure conducive to liberty, understood to mean economic freedom. This comment links this support to Hayek's mistaken rejection of democracy as a constitutive component of freedom, which is the result of his overestimation of the epistemological abilities of judges
Knowledge, Class, and Economics
Economic Democracy, Democratic Planning, and Human Autonomy
This essay explores Fikret Adaman and Pat Devine’s position that democratic planning would expand human autonomy. It argues that economic democracy involving workplace democracy, private property, and widespread markets would generally be more autonomy enhancing than a system of democratic planning with social ownership and few markets. However, it acknowledges the problems ecological limits may place on the autonomy of future populations, making…
Economics (9 works) · Political Economy and Marxism (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Economic Theory and Institutions (6 works) · Law and economics (6 works) · Neoclassical economics (6 works) · Economic Theory and Policy (5 works) · Law (5 works)