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My dissertation is completed, approved and now online

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché January 21, 2009 @ 2:01 pm (Austrian) Economics

Well, I finally finished my dissertation and now it’s available online for anyone to read. I actually defended it on December 2nd. My committee approved it under the condition that I make some revisions, which is not an unusual occurrence. They mainly wanted me to flesh out and clarify some things in chapters five and [...]

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The Anarchist Roundtable #1: Ron Paul

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché June 3, 2008 @ 12:19 pm Democracy
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Immanent Politics, Participatory Democracy, and the Pursuit of Eudaimonia

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché May 20, 2008 @ 3:04 pm Aristotelian Liberalism

This is the paper I presented at ASC, chapter 5 of my dissertation.After much too much procrastination the rough draft is finallyfinished and it’s uploaded to my website. I’m sure it’s in need ofrevision so constructive comments, suggestions and criticisms arewelcome.

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How Easy It Is To Commit Electronic Voting Fraud

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché February 18, 2008 @ 4:47 pm Democracy
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A Native American Group Wants to Secede from the Union

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché December 20, 2007 @ 10:22 am Democracy

I’m not optimistic about their chances of success – the United States government is a jealous god – but one can hope. “Lakota group pushes for new nation“ “Descendants of Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse break away from US“ And here’s some commentary on the plight of Native Americans: “Native Americans: Victims of Bureaucracy.”

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Naomi Wolf: The End of America

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché October 25, 2007 @ 7:15 pm Democracy

In related news: “Terror watch list swells to more than 755,000” (USA Today) Are you on the list?

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Family Guy – "Democracy" in Iraq

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché June 6, 2007 @ 8:41 pm Democracy
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New Working Papers on Rome and Praxeology

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché January 8, 2006 @ 7:42 pm Democracy

Those who are interested can check out the rough drafts of my seminar papers of last semester. One is a critique of Roman virtue and liberty and how these are at the root of Rome’s rise and fall. The other is on praxeology and the question of Aristotelian apriorism. For the latter, I still have [...]

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Democracy, Spontaneous Order, and the Democratic Peace Thesis

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché December 7, 2005 @ 3:12 pm (Austrian) Economics

Gus diZerega over at Liberty & Power has made a couple of posts arguing not only in favor on the democratic peace thesis (about which I have posted before; see here) but also, and far more incredibly, that democracies are spontaneous orders. See his posts here and here. I commented on the latter, offering a [...]

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On Roman Liberty

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché December 5, 2005 @ 10:47 pm Democracy

Here’s the last of my reaction papers on Roman political philosophy: De Libertate Romanorum. Links to the other three can be found here. My full-length analysis will be posted in a couple of weeks.

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