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How the West Got Rich – Deirdre N. McCloskey, Ph.D.

by Keith Knight | Nov 11, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/iChl-tfUahU A change in how people honored markets and innovation caused the Industrial Revolution, and then the modern world....People had to start liking “creative destruction,” the new idea that replaces the old...Europeans and then others came to admire entrepreneurs like Ben Franklin and Andrew Carnegie and Bill Gates. Liberty and Dignity Explain the Modern World by Deirdre N. McCloskey, Ph.D. Deirdre N. McCloskey is a professor of economics, history, English, and communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Odysee BitChute Minds Spotify Archive...

Libertarian Lessons from ‘The 48 Laws of Power’. Pete Quiñones, Popular Liberty, & Keith Knight

by Keith Knight | Nov 8, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/UOgAAui-DOQ In all societies, public opinion is determined by the intellectual classes, the opinion molders of society. For most people neither originate nor disseminate ideas and concepts; on the contrary, they tend to adopt those ideas promulgated by the professional intellectual classes, the professional dealers in ideas. Now, throughout history ... despots and ruling elites of States have had far more need of the services of intellectuals than have peaceful citizens in a free society. For States have always needed opinion-molding intellectuals to con the public into...

The Truth About Slavery – Thomas Sowell, Ph.D.

by Keith Knight | Nov 6, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/0tur_Zpvl8I Slavery is one of the oldest and most universal of all human institutions. Slavery has existed among peoples around the world, as far back as recorded history goes— and archaeological explorations suggest that it existed before human beings learned to write. Thomas Sowell, Ph.D., Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One (Basic Books, 2009) p. 20 Odysee BitChute Spotify Flote Archive Minds

Ph.D. Student Debunks Socialism Using Basic Economics! Marcel Gautreau & Keith Knight

by Keith Knight | Oct 31, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/Ga4JWC_jgSo In reality, most of the great fortunes in American history have resulted from someone’s figuring out how to reduce costs, so as to be able to charge lower prices and therefore gain a mass market for the product. Henry Ford did this with automobiles, Rockefeller with oil, Carnegie with steel, and Sears, Penney, Walton and other department store chain founders with a variety of products. Thomas Sowell, Ph.D., Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy (2014, Basic Books) p. 165 Marcel Gautreau is a PhD student at George Mason University and a Mises...

Natural Resources Make Countries Rich – DEBUNKED

by Keith Knight | Oct 29, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/NUjIIBjxQAE Indeed, even the capacity to discover natural resources depends upon institutions; countries with market-oriented institutions are far better at discovering their natural resources than countries with non-market institutions. Jason Brennan, Ph.D., Why It’s OK to Want to Be Rich (2021, Routledge) p. 115 Jason Brennan, Ph.D., is the Robert J. and Elizabeth Flanagan Family Professor of Strategy, Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy at the McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University, USA. He is the author of 14 books, including In Defense of Openness (2018)...

Imperialism Made the West Rich – DEBUNKED

by Keith Knight | Oct 26, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/COc7hvB8TpE ...nations are made up of different people with different levels of power and different interests. The benefits of the empire-building were concentrated among the politically well-connected few, such as weapons makers, certain monopoly trade companies, the military, and the kings and queens. The costs—which exceeded the benefits—were in turn passed onto and spread among the helpless, hapless many, among the taxpayers forced to pay for the wars, the conscripts forced to fight and die, and the consumers forced to pay what were in many cases artificially high...

How Not to Suck at Life. Connor Boyack & Keith Knight

by Keith Knight | Oct 24, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/oCOCTSu82no In a nutshell, people who are scared are more easily controlled. We can be manipulated by those who want power over us if we’re worried and they have a supposed solution to our perceived problems. Connor Boyack, How Not to Suck at Life: 89 Tips for Teens (2021) p. 91 Connor Boyack is president of Libertas Institute, a public policy think tank in Utah. Book discussed: How Not to Suck at Life: 89 Tips for Teens Odysee BitChute Spotify Minds Flote Archive

Democratic Socialists STILL Believe This Debunked Conspiracy Theory! | Thomas Sowell

by Keith Knight | Oct 23, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/CNKHDifCOc0 The only viable definition of monopoly is a grant of privilege from the government. It therefore becomes quite clear that it is impossible for the government to decrease monopoly by passing punitive laws. Th e only way for the government to decrease monopoly, if that is the desideratum, is to remove its own monopoly grants. The antitrust laws, therefore, do not in the least “diminish monopoly.” What they do accomplish is to impose a continual, capricious harassment of efficient business enterprise. Murray N. Rothbard Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market,...