Ludwig von Mises

Who Needs What?

by | Dec 22, 2024 | ,

"[I]t is evident ... that the man, who first made himself clothes and built himself a cabin, supplied himself with things which he did not much want, since he had lived without them till then; and why should he not have been able to support in his riper years, the...

Whose Plan?

by | Dec 21, 2024 | ,

"The alternative is not plan or no plan. The question is whose planning? Should each member of society plan for himself, or should a benevolent government alone plan for them all? The issue is not automatism versus conscious action; it is autonomous action of each...

What Full Liberalism Is Not About

by | Dec 20, 2024 | ,

"Liberalism is a doctrine directed entirely towards the conduct of men in this world. In the last analysis, it has nothing else in view than the advancement of their outward, material welfare and does not concern itself directly with their inner, spiritual and...

The Welfare-State Paradox

by | Dec 19, 2024 | , ,

"Whether ... a system of social security is a good or a bad policy is essentially a political problem. One may try to justify it by declaring that the wage earners lack the insight and the moral strength to provide spontaneously for their own future. But then it is...

The Steady Rise in Living Standards

by | Dec 18, 2024 | ,

"The history of capitalism as it has operated in the last two hundred years in the realm of Western civilization is the record of a steady rise in the wage earners’ standard of living. The inherent mark of capitalism is that it is mass production for mass consumption...

Mises on Wages under Capitalism

by | Dec 17, 2024 | ,

"While daily experience taught impressively that under capitalism real wage rates and the wage earners’ standard of living were steadily rising, while it became from day to day more obvious that the traditional walls separating the various strata of the population...

How Far We’ve Come

by | Dec 15, 2024 | ,

"The conditions under which modern man of the capitalist West must act are different from those under which his primitive ancestors lived and acted. As a result of the providential care of our forebears we have at our disposal an ample stock of intermediate products...

More Mises on the Market

by | Dec 13, 2024 |

"The capitalists, the enterprisers, and the farmers are instrumental in the conduct of economic affairs. They are at the helm and steer the ship. But they are not free to shape its course. They are not supreme, they are steersmen only, bound to obey unconditionally...

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Yes, Minister Forever and Forever

Occam's Razor often reveals the easiest answer to a wicked problem. Take a half hour to watch the video below from the every entertaining staff at T.Rex. Yes, T.Rex makes some of the best holsters on Earth for all your social work needs. In the end, the state is built...

Horton Debates Mossad Chief

Seriously. Piers Morgan had me on with John Kiriakou, The Dersh and Danny Yatom, the former head of Israeli intelligence. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwCTktxy0ho

Paine on War

"It may with reason be said, that in the manner the English nation is represented, it signifies not where this right resides, whether in the Crown, or in the Parliament. War is the common harvest of all those who participate in the division and expenditure of public...

Army Fiasco Train in the 21st Century

I was astonished in 2009 when I saw the cancellation of the Future Combat System contract to usher in the next generation of armored vehicles. The Army cancelled the billions-dollar program and got to witness the Army continuing to burns through tens of millions a...

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