,
Lew Rockwell, David Gordon, and
Murray Rothbard Gordon is a senior fellow of the
Mises Institute.''
He has worked for another libertarian think tank, the Cato Institute from 1979 to 1980. He has also written for the Rothbard-Rockwell Report,'' published by
Murray Rothbard and
Lew Rockwell. He specializes in Rothbard's works on political theory, history, economics, and other subjects. He has also contributed to
Analysis,
International Philosophical Quarterly,
Social Philosophy and Policy, and
Econ Journal Watch. He has also been published in the
Orange County Register,
The American Conservative and
The Freeman. In 1985, Gordon worked with
Walter Block on a law review article, "Extortion and the Exercise of Free Speech Rights". In this article, they explored the contradictions and paradoxes in laws against blackmail and the conditions under which such laws may be acceptable. Gordon's 1991 book
Resurrecting Marx: The Analytical Marxists on Freedom, Exploitation, and Justice was described by Mises Institute scholar Yuri Maltsev as "a refutation of
neo-Marxist attempts to save the system from itself". The book refutes the arguments of
Marxist political philosophers, including
G. A. Cohen,
Jon Elster, and
John Roemer, and opposes every form of Marxism as theoretically nonviable. Gordon argues that
capitalism could not be exploitative and that
laissez-faire capitalism could serve a just world, concluding that
Marxism is "a complete failure". The
American Political Science Review said Gordon's argument was "rather crude", and
Contemporary Sociology said Gordon failed to show that
analytical Marxists were "a formidable weapon in the hands of anti-Marxists such as himself". Oxford political scientist David Leopold noted that Gordon’s “thumbnail test” for classifying a writer as an analytical Marxist reflects a common, though “misleading and unfortunate”, understanding of the school. Gordon wrote that a favorable stance on
dialectics meant that the writer must be "crossed off the list". Gordon's book
The Philosophical Origins of Austrian Economics (1992), which explores the philosophical origins of
Carl Menger's economic theories, was highly praised by Murray Rothbard. Writing in
The Review of Austrian Economics,
Barry Smith criticized the book for its over-simplistic division of philosophers into two camps—German (
Hegelian,
organicist, and anti-science) and Austrian (Aristotelian, individualist and pro-science)—despite philosophers having more complex interrelations. For example,
Franz Brentano, a model of Austrian thought, was born in Germany and was strongly influenced by German philosopher
Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg. Gordon later wrote an essay, "Second Thoughts on The Philosophical Origins of Austrian Economics", to provide some additions and corrections to his book. In 2002, Gordon edited
Secession, State & Liberty, a collection of essays arguing that secession should be seriously considered. The essays analyze U.S. history, examine theoretical issues, and apply these ideas to the modern world. In 2011, Gordon and Swedish consultant Per Nilsson analyzed books published by
Harvard University Press in their paper "The Ideological Profile of Harvard University Press: Categorizing 494 Books Published 2000–2010" in
Econ Journal Watch. They concluded that the press's ideology is predominantly leftist, although they acknowledged that they had not read all the books they categorized. ==Books==