Focus on Incentives, Ignore ‘Good Intentions’. Keith Knight & Joseph Solis-Mullen.

Focus on Incentives, Ignore ‘Good Intentions’. Keith Knight & Joseph Solis-Mullen.

by | Mar 5, 2026 | ,

https://youtu.be/ybD7vbnNDy4 The current President can teach us a lot about how incentives can alter a persons behavior.   Assume you agree with me, that Trump is a nefarious actor.   Was Trump more of a threat to humanity in the voluntary sector, or the political sector?   The Progressive world-view would predict: In the greedy private sector Trump exploited people. Now, as a public servant, Trump creates value by serving us, the collective.   The opposite is true.   Market advocates recognize the inevitability of humans being self-interested actors, using the freedom of (dis)association as...

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How Workers Benefit From Free Markets. Sheldon Richman & Keith Knight

How Workers Benefit From Free Markets. Sheldon Richman & Keith Knight

by | Feb 17, 2026 |

https://youtu.be/596oTshKdgs As a result of expanding cooperation, human beings, unlike lower animals, compete to produce, not to consume. Mises expressed this with my favorite sentence in Human Action: “The fact that my fellow man wants to acquire shoes as I do, does not make it harder for me to get shoes, but easier.” The expansion of cooperation also means dealing with strangers at great distance — a further incentive for world peace and harmony. - Sheldon Richman, What Social Animals Owe to Each Other (p. 31) Watch on Odysee BitChute Rumble X Spotify

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Even the War in Afghanistan Was Unnecessary. Dan McKnight & Keith Knight

Even the War in Afghanistan Was Unnecessary. Dan McKnight & Keith Knight

by | Dec 18, 2025 |

https://youtu.be/dY-aYIseMxc To kill one man is to be guilty of a capital crime, to kill ten men is to increase the guilt tenfold, to kill a hundred men is to increase it a hundredfold. This the rulers of the earth all recognize, and yet when it comes to the greatest crime — waging war on another state — they praise it!… If a man on seeing a little black were to say it is black, but on seeing a lot of black were to say it is white, it would be clear that such a man could not distinguish black and white… So those who recognize a small crime as such, but do not recognize the wickedness of the...

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Scott Horton Debunks Dick Cheney’s Lies

Scott Horton Debunks Dick Cheney’s Lies

by | Nov 19, 2025 |

https://youtu.be/e4qYxilAIR8 “First, we should recognize that institutions such as states show a natural aggressiveness. The explanation is very simple. If you have to fund your own aggressive ventures yourself, out of your own pocket, that will somewhat curtail your natural inclination to fight other people, because you have to pay for it yourself. On the other hand, if you imagine that if I want to fight some of you guys and I can tax him or him or him and ask them to support me in my fighting endeavors, then whatever my initial aggressive impulses might be, are certainly stimulated...

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The Case for World War II Revisionism

The Case for World War II Revisionism

by | Nov 12, 2025 | ,

Editor's note: This article is the opening statement given by Libertarian Institute managing editor Keith Knight in his Zerohedge debate with author James Holland on the merits of fighting the Second World War which took place on November 6, 2025. You can watch the full debate here. To briefly summarize the anti-war position: The costs of warfare are extremely high. The high costs are often imposed on unwilling participants. The outcomes of warfare are highly uncertain. The primary decision makers -politicians- face little incentive to produce beneficial results since they often have access...

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WWII Revisionism Debate: James Holland vs Keith Knight

WWII Revisionism Debate: James Holland vs Keith Knight

by | Nov 9, 2025 |

https://youtu.be/IK14Xp0d-qg “First, we should recognize that institutions such as states show a natural aggressiveness. The explanation is very simple. If you have to fund your own aggressive ventures yourself, out of your own pocket, that will somewhat curtail your natural inclination to fight other people, because you have to pay for it yourself. On the other hand, if you imagine that if I want to fight some of you guys and I can tax him or him or him and ask them to support me in my fighting endeavors, then whatever my initial aggressive impulses might be, are certainly stimulated...

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Socialist Sincerity Test

Socialist Sincerity Test

by | Nov 6, 2025 |

If a politician claims to care about a shortage of X (food, healthcare, housing, etc.) and they have no ideas on how to increase the supply of X, they are disingenuous. The secret to mass consumption is mass production in the free market. It's how pornography unfortunately became widely available: no state involvement and free market competition. Same applies to healthcare and housing.

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The Catholic Case for Capitalism

The Catholic Case for Capitalism

by | Nov 4, 2025 |

https://youtu.be/qxykDSLaGiQ The characteristic mark of big business is mass production for the satisfaction of the needs of the masses. Under capitalism the workers themselves, directly or indirectly, are the main consumers of all those things that the factories are turning out. - Ludwig von Mises, The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, p. 42 Watch on X Odysee Rumble BitChute

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