Author Archives: Madhusudan Raj

Time to Rethink the Idea of Nation State

Our world is by and large going left liberal and woke. These groups of people espouse ideas like gender equality or self gender identification, gender feminism, anti-racism, open immigration, multiculturalism etc. American social political groups like Black Lives Matters or ANTIFA (Anti Fascist) etc., represent such ideologies. Personally speaking, I see no problems with this […]

Private Property Rights as the Pillar of Human Civilization

The fundamental question all human beings face is, how do we organize our society in such a way that leads to the achievement of ground norms of justice, peace, prosperity and civilization? Particularly, how to organize the society so it avoids conflict between its members and promotes cooperation.  In this short essay I am going […]

On Government Digital Currencies

The latest issue of the Economist magazine (figure 1) discusses the coming digital currencies of the governments. It talks about how these currencies are risky but a risk worth taking and how they will transform finance as we know it today. Let’s see what risk we all are taking when governments are going to impose […]

How Politicians Exploit your Fear and What to Do to Stop them?

Book review:  Feardom: How Politicians Exploit Your Emotions and What You Can Do to Stop Them by Connor Boyack.  Libertas Press (8 December 2014) Connor Boyack, the founder and president of Libertas Institute a libertarian think tank in Utah, has written an important book on the subject matter of the pervasive human emotion of fear […]

Is Consumer Spending Key to post-Covid Recovery?

The one world government people at the world economic forum are at their game of misleading the world again. In their recently published article titled 3 reasons why consumer demand matters for the post-COVID-19 recovery they are again displaying their ignorance of economic science. The article says,  Consumer spending is the engine of the economy, […]