Ludwig von Mises är en av tidernas främsta ekonomer och Mänskligt handlande hans mest betydelsefulla verk. Vi finansierade översättningen till svenska som finns utgiven på Timbro förlag. Nu subventionerar vi även att fler läser den.
I suppose it is possible to be surprised that the government, claiming the monopoly on violence, has the power to extract wealth and therefore attracts those who prefer to extract rather than create wealth. 🤷♂️
Nonsense reporting in @svtnyheter: "The economic recovery continues to stall. And it's your fault. Yes, really. If you're a fairly typical household holding tightly onto your wallet. Because it's sluggish consumer spending that's causing jobs and the entire economy to idle." --@alexandernoren
A medical doctor who prescribes a pharmaceutical intervention, then another to balance side effects, followed by a third to balance those side effects, is soon questioned and dismissed as a quack.
Politicians consistently do this to society, yet voters keep coming back for more.
What could be the motive of someone denying that each person has a right not to be enslaved, coerced, forced, controlled, encroached on, pushed around, bullied, censored, threatened, harmed, or murdered--other than power over those persons? #Liberty is the absence of such power.
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Claiming national borders are just like private property boundaries suggests that (a) rights exist for both collectives and individuals alike, and that (b) those of the former take precedence over those of the latter. It's just the opposite.
The "three functions" of money--medium of exchange, store of value, unit of account--seem to confuse people. It's an empirical observation, not the definition. Money is the generally accepted medium of exchange. Other "functions" tend to follow, but non-money can have them too.
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#Trade is simple: voluntary exchanges, without theft, fraud, or force, take place because the parties expect to become better off from it. What is not simple are the consequences of political meddling with it, making trading a licensed privilege and a means for political ends.