We don’t usually make people better off by reducing their alternatives.
– David D. Friedman, Ph.D., Hidden Order: The Economics of Everyday Life
Danny Duchamp creates videos and essays on philosophy, economics and politics from a consequentialist libertarian perspective.
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https://youtu.be/XvlVtoRCAV8 “Retaliation was certain if we carried the war into Germany…Yet, because we were doubtful about the psychological effect of propagandist distortion of the truth that it was we who started the strategic offensive, we have shrunk from giving...
https://youtu.be/BSJqaADbvng People who depict markets as cold, impersonal institutions, and their own notions as humane and compassionate, have it directly backwards. It is when people make their own economic decisions, taking into account costs that matter to...
https://youtu.be/6_EZRqYvcY4 [Libertarians are] trying to shape the human social order in a way that involves the least amount of force, violence, and threats. - Brian Doherty, author of Modern Libertarianism Brian Doherty is a senior editor at Reason and author of...
