In a recent article, Carl Milsted uses Rothbard to argue it would be permissible to use force to make people pay for a service of which their benefit is at least double its cost. His conclusion is that it is reasonable, and even preferable, to establish a minimalist state if it is to people’s advantage. As has already been argued by N. Stephan
Old people in Sweden say that to be Swedish means to supply for your own, to take care of your self, and never be a burden on anyone else’s shoulders. Independence and hard work was the common perception of a decent life, and the common perception of morality. That was less than one hundred years ago. My late grandmother used to say something
“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark,” the officer Marcellus claims in Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Well, that goes for all of Europe. People in Europe like to complain about the “horrors” of the American way of life. It is, so they say, so coldly individualistic (interpreted as the very opposite of what’s good), and it is a danger to the
When surfing the web I “accidently” ended up on the web site of America’s third party--the Libertarian Party. Established in 1971 as a radical alternative to the Republicrats parties it has become known as the Party of Principle . I’m not sure whether this is applicable anymore, not after the Libertarian Reform Caucus successfully repealed “most
La nueva película “V de Vendetta” ha provocado una discusión pública sobre el significado del anarquismo. Murray Rothbard fue un defensor de la sociedad sin estado, pero nunca fue aceptado por el movimiento anarquista y sigue siendo considerado más un “lacayo del capitalismo” que un pensador anarquista. De hecho el anarcocapitalismo siempre se ha
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The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard.
Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.