Table of ContentsPrevious – Chapter 4, Radical Unschooling Chapter 5 – Agorism “Agorism is a libertarian social philosophy that advocates creating a society in which all relations between people are voluntary exchanges by means of counter-economics, thus engaging in a manner with aspects of peaceful revolution.” So says Wikipedia.(44) What is counter-economics? According to the…
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Urban Planning, Clairvoyance, Movie: Harper
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Building a Culture of Liberty V: Agorism
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Euphemisms, Spooner #12, Fallacy #21
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Austrian School of Economics Business Cycle Theory
Dan Pratt wrote a brilliantly concise explanation of the Austrian School theory of business cycles (booms and busts), on Facebook. Here it’s reprinted in full: Here’s a little lesson on the Austrian Business Cycle Theory that will illustrate why central banking and the expansion of the money supply is ultimately harmful: In a free market…
Astrophysics
Nobody asked but … Why don’t we need to regulate by legislation the motions, behavior, and phenomena of planets, moons, sun, stars? Why don’t we demand in writing the compliance and consistent reliability of geology, climate, tides, non-human sounds, and spectra of light? It is, perhaps, because we cannot control everything. Maybe we have our hands…
On Intervention
A friend recently analogized the US Government intervening in a foreign dispute (Iraq, for example) with me intervening in a mugging. This is a poor analogy. In the latter, my willingness to intervene depends greatly on not only the power I wield, say a gun, but also the costs of intervention, ie. the potentialities of…
Jim’s Journey, Spooner Quote #1, Fallacy #8
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Cats and Dogs, Dysfunctions of a Collective, YALFE
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Driver’s License
Nobody asked but … I have been stalked by the state for every day of my life. I had to refer to my driver’s license this morning to fill out some medical paperwork. And I began to study it (I have had this one for almost 4 years, but I have had some driver’s license…