Race and Discrimination
Marx said your logic depends on your class. The Nazis said it depends on your race. Mises had a name for that idea, and an answer to it. Wanjiru Njoya applies it to how we argue about race today.
Marx said your logic depends on your class. The Nazis said it depends on your race. Mises had a name for that idea, and an answer to it. Wanjiru Njoya applies it to how we argue about race today.
Build a model no real market could ever match, call it the ideal, then diagnose every real market as a failure for falling short. Jonathan Newman on the equilibrium trap Mises warned against.
Why is water nearly free while diamonds cost millions, when you'd die in three days without one and never miss the other? In 1871, Carl Menger finally solved it.
We assume people are self-interested in the market and selfless in government. Tate Fegley on why dropping that double standard explains almost everything about how the state actually behaves.
Egalitarians mock Adam Smith's invisible hand as free-market superstition, then explain every billionaire with an invisible hand of their own. Joshua Mawhorter on the luck argument for redistribution.
Dr. Wanjiru Njoya argues that private property is the indispensable cornerstone of liberty and civilization, and that anti-discrimination laws—however well-intentioned—are a form of aggression against property.
Los socialistas desprecian la libertad individual porque creen que permitir a los seres humanos tomar decisiones libres supuestamente conduce a un comportamiento egoísta y antisocial. Sin embargo, al negar la elección individual, los socialistas están negando la acción humana en sí misma.
Jesús Huerta de Soto ha publicado una serie de conferencias sobre economía austriaca, y el Dr. David Gordon, en Friday Philosophy, reseña su obra Lectures in Austrian Economics, volumen 1. El Dr. Gordon está especialmente interesado en cómo aborda De Soto el tema del tiempo.
La Universidad Mises comienza el domingo 20 de julio y, dado que abunda la desinformación sobre la economía, es bueno contar con un foro en el que los estudiantes puedan aprender verdades económicas y ampliar sus horizontes.
Una creencia fundamental de los colectivistas es que las personas también piensan colectivamente. Ya sea que uno sea miembro de una clase, un grupo religioso o un grupo étnico.