David Ramsay Steele

David Ramsay Steele is the author of Orwell Your Orwell: A Worldview on the Slab (a study of George Orwell's beliefs), Atheism Explained: From Folly to Philosophy (a popular exposition of atheism), and From Marx to Mises: Post-Capitalist Society and the Challenge of Economic Calculation (an exposition of the economic calculation problem). Since 1985 he has been Editorial Director of Open Court Publishing Company. With Michael R. Edelstein, in 1997 he co-wrote Three Minute Therapy: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life, a psychological self-help book based on Albert Ellis's rational emotive behavior therapy and with Michael R. Edelstein and Richard K. Kujoth, in 2013 he co-wrote Therapy Breakthrough: Why Some Psychotherapies Work Better than Others, a study of cognitive-behavioral therapy arguing for its superiority to psychodynamic therapy.

From 1963 to 1973, Steele was a member of the Socialist Party of Great Britain.[1][2] In 1970 he became aware of the historical debate over economic calculation, and between 1970 and 1973 underwent an intellectual conversion from SPGB Marxism to libertarianism. He later co-founded the Libertarian Alliance and in 1982 would be identified with one of the two factions that resulted in the split of the group.

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  1. 1 2 http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/socialist-standard/2000s/2004/no-1198-june-2004/smash-cash
  2. ↑ http://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/listen-anarchist.html
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