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Does anyone know if Gordon Clark has written on economics (taxation, socialism, capitalism/free-market) and topics such as democracy, monarchy, minarchism?

If yes, please inform me the book or article in which he has addressed such topic(s).

By the way, which other protestant theologians have written in opposition to socialism?
 
Does anyone know if Gordon Clark has written on economics (taxation, socialism, capitalism/free-market) and topics such as democracy, monarchy, minarchism?

If yes, please inform me the book or article in which he has addressed such topic(s).

By the way, which other protestant theologians have written in opposition to socialism?

He covers politics in some detail in A Christian View of Men and Things. He opts for a generally small government view of economics and representative government, though he doesn't say too much about it.

He attacks communism in his book on the Confession.
 
I posed the OP to Doug Douma, author of the recent biography of Dr. Clark.
His reply:

"Clark didnt write that much on politics. It is hard to classify him. He has some libertarian elements but is overall maybe a minarchist paleo-conservative."

"The closest thing is Clarks Essays on Ethics and Politics. His Christian View of Men and Things also has some politics. And [there are] some other thoughts in letters with John Robbins."

See more from Douma here:

https://douglasdouma.wordpress.com/2014/08/02/libertarianism-in-the-thought-of-the-calvinist-philosopher-gordon-h-clark/
 
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Thank you all for the sources.

I want to use this opportunity to ask all of you for sources from other Reformed authors who have refuted socialism, and has written on economics and politics.
 
Thank you all for the sources.

I want to use this opportunity to ask all of you for sources from other Reformed authors who have refuted socialism, and has written on economics and politics.

Gary North has, though that involves Gary North's whole project. You might not want to go down that road.

Francis Nigel Lee has dealt with it as well, though perhaps more in lectures. Bahnsen has some good audio talks on economics. Rushdoony has written on it in Larceny in the Heart.
 
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