David Ramsay Steele (born 23 June 1944) is a British author. He has published several works, such as The Mystery of Fascism: David Ramsay Steele's Greatest Hits (2019, a collection of 23 previously published articles), Orwell Your Orwell: A Worldview on the Slab (2017, a study of
George Orwell's beliefs), Atheism Explained: From Folly to Philosophy (2008, a popular exposition of
atheism) and From Marx to Mises: Post-Capitalist Society and the Challenge of Economic Calculation (1992, an exposition of the
economic calculation problem). Since 1985, he has been Editorial Director of
Open Court Publishing Company. In 1997, he co-wrote with Michael R. Edelstein Three Minute Therapy: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life, a psychological self-help book based on
Albert Ellis's
rational emotive behavior therapy, re-released in paperback, 2019. In 2013, he co-wrote with Michael R. Edelstein and Richard K. Kujoth 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 (SPGB).[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.
Works
Books
Steele, David Ramsay (1992). From Marx to Mises: Post-Capitalist Society and the Challenge of Economic Calculation. La Salle, Ill.: Open Court.
ISBN0-87548-449-2.
OCLC26934946.
Steele, David Ramsay (2008). Atheism Explained: From Folly to Philosophy. Chicago, Ill.: Open Court.
ISBN978-0-8126-9703-2.
OCLC701110315.
Edelstein, Michael R.; Kujoth, Richard K.; Steele, David Ramsay (2013). Therapy Breakthrough: Why Some Psychotherapies Work Better Than Others. Chicago.
ISBN978-0-8126-9686-8.
OCLC863660808.{{
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Steele, David Ramsay (2017). Orwell your Orwell: A Worldview on the Slab. South Bend, Indiana.
ISBN978-1-58731-610-4.
OCLC965120240.{{
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Steele, David Ramsay (2019). The Mystery of Fascism: David Ramsay Steele's Greatest Hits. South Bend, Indiana.
ISBN978-1-58731-529-9.
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"Will Emerging Media Create a Collective Mind?" in Juliet Floyd and James E. Katz, eds., Philosophy of Emerging Media: Understanding, Appreciation, Application (2016).
"What Follows from the Nonexistence of Mental Illness?" in Jeffrey A. Schaler, Henry Zvi Lothane, and Richard E. Vatz, eds., Thomas S. Szasz: The Man and His Ideas (2017).
"How I Could Have Made Hillary President" in Daniel Yim, Galen Foresman, and Robert Arp (eds) Scott Adams and Philosophy: A Hole in the Fabric of Reality (2018).
"Is It a Fact that Facts Don't Matter?" in Daniel Yim, Galen Foresman, and Robert Arp (eds) Scott Adams and Philosophy: A Hole in the Fabric of Reality (2018).
"Scott Adams and the Pinocchio Fallacy" in Daniel Yim, Galen Foresman, and Robert Arp (eds) Scott Adams and Philosophy: A Hole in the Fabric of Reality (2018).