https://youtu.be/1cV--8aT074 From Patrick McFarlane's Liberty Weekly Show Notes: In this first video/documentary style podcast, I review Lt. Col. Dave Grossman’s seminal work On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society. In doing so, I examine mankind’s inherent resistance to taking human life. Next, we take a look at the US Army’s discovery of this resistance and their subsequent efforts to overcome it. Finally, I examine Dave Grossman himself, his overarching thesis, and his side business, where he conditions government goons to kill reflexively. Patrick...
Austrian Economics
TGIF: Equal Rights Now!
A pet peeve of mine is the distinction, drawn even by some market enthusiasts, between so-called personal liberty (or civil liberties) and economic liberty. The former, which usually includes freedom of conscience and religion, speech, and press, is thought to be noble and spiritual, while the latter, related to commerce and the pursuit of wealth, is held to be vulgar and materialistic. This has its roots in the thinking of the ancients. The distinction thrills the hearts of those who disparage markets and "economic freedom," Pro-market thinkers use the distinction for understandable...
Why Do Climate Alarmists Dislike Climate Realist-Optimists So Much?
F. A. Hayek, the Nobel-Prize-winning economist of the Austrian tradition, provided a possible answer to the question posed in the title. Although Hayek (1899-1992) to my knowledge had nothing to say about the climate controversy, his views on macroeconomics met with a similarly critical attitude from those who practiced economics at a level far, far removed from individual action. He too was in essence called a science denier, in this case the science was economics. Here's what he said when contrasting the method of the natural sciences of "simple phenomena" with the methods of social and...
A Tribute to Great Minds. Thomas E. Woods Jr. & Keith Knight
https://youtu.be/LALiVLMtN2o ... while Ludwig von Mises was acknowledged as one of Europe’s most eminent economists in the 1920s and 30s, the language barrier shut off any recognition of Mises in the Anglo-American world until the mid-1930s; then, just as his business cycle theory was beginning to achieve renown as an explanation for the Great Depression, Mises’s overdue recognition was lost in the hoopla of the Keynesian Revolution. A refugee deprived of his academic or social base in Europe, Mises emigrated to the United States at the mercy of his new-found environment. But while, in...
Capitalism Delivers What Socialism Promises. Isabella Riley & Keith Knight
https://youtu.be/Rv4r7EW5hxc Government is the very negation of charity, for charity is uniquely an unbought gift , a freely fl owing uncoerced act by the giver. Murray N. Rothbard Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market, p. 1228 Isabella Riley on Twitter: https://twitter.com/isabellarileyus Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@isabellarileyusa? Link Tree: https://linktr.ee/IsabellaRileyUS LBRY / Odysee: https://odysee.com/@KeithKnightDontTreadOnAnyone:b/Capitalism-Delivers-What-Socialism-Promises:a BitChute: https://www.bitchute.com/video/QVqJH48aWFaC/ Archive:...
Specialization and the Division of Labor – Mises & Rothbard
https://youtu.be/SEN7wqtbX_o No one can fully develop his powers in any direction without engaging in specialization. ... the developing division of labor is a key to the advance of any economy above the most primitive level. A necessary condition for any sort of developed economy, the division of labor is also requisite to the development of any sort of civilized society. ... Without the opportunity to specialize in whatever he can do best, no person can develop his powers to the full; no man, then, could be fully human. Murray N. Rothbard Economic Controversies, p. 603 LBRY /...
Why Wages Rise – Ludwig von Mises
https://youtu.be/IfC6vPRCh4I The buyers do not pay for the toil and trouble the worker took nor for the length of time he spent in working. They pay for the products. The better the tools are which the worker uses in his job, the more he can perform in an hour, the higher is, consequently, his remuneration. What makes wages rise and renders the material conditions of the wage earners more satisfactory is improvement in the technological equipment. American wages are higher than wages in other countries because the capital invested per head of the worker is greater and the plants are...
How Basic Economics Debunks Marxism
https://youtu.be/T3VY19N7IFM ... coercion benefits one party only at the expense of others. Coerced exchange is a system of exploitation of man by man, in contrast to the free market, which is a system of cooperative exchanges in the exploitation of nature alone. ... coercion leads only to further problems: it is inefficient and chaotic, it cripples production, and it leads to cumulative and unforeseen difficulties. Seemingly orderly, coercion is not only exploitative; it is also profoundly disorderly.... coercion and government intervention lead inexorably to hegemony, conflict,...
The Libertarian Litmus Test. Stephan Kinsella & Keith Knight
https://youtu.be/fVZpWRkY55k ... certain features are broadly alike in all visions of communism. Private property is eliminated, individualism goes by the board, individuality is flattened, all property is owned and controlled communally, and the individual units of the new collective organism are in some vague way equal to one another. Murray N. Rothbard Classical Economics, p. 318 Stephan Kinsella is a practicing patent attorney, a libertarian writer and speaker, Director of the Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom (C4SIF), and Founding and Executive Editor of Libertarian...
Economics Professor Refutes Socialism! Per L. Bylund & Keith Knight
https://youtu.be/JW9tlZdXOaY Per L. Bylund, PhD, is assistant professor of entrepreneurship and Records-Johnston professor of free enterprise in the School of Entrepreneurship at Oklahoma State University. Find his work here: Twitter: @perbylund PerBylund.com https://www.entrepreneur.com/author/per-bylund --------------------------------------------------------------- The #1 Cause of Homelessness: https://libertarianinstitute.org/dont-tread-on-anyone/whats-the-1-cause-of-homelessness/ Why Healthcare is So Expensive: https://youtu.be/401Ir9alWBI 0:00 - Quote 0:36 - What is economics? (and...