About this episode

The episode explores the concept of social parasites and property rights, discussing how societal ownership of labor transforms moral accusations into legal categories.

Send us Fan Mail BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE: The information in this episode comes from Red Flags Press. Their main web site is very useful for research purposes, and I recommend it! We follow the idea of the “social parasite” through socialist writing and show how it shifts from moral accusation to an enforceable legal category once society claims ownership over individual labor. We argue that the transaction costs of monitoring effort and assigning “socially useful” work push real-wor...

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Host: Michael Munger

Topics covered

• social parasites
• property rights
• transaction costs
• socialism
• labor ownership

Keywords

• social parasite
• property rights
• transaction costs
• socialism
• labor

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Red Flags Press

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