I've posted a few times on here before, but I thought I'd better formally introduce myself.
I'm a teenager who became interested in politics and economics essentially because the British New Labour government has done such a terrible job. Being from an upper-middle-class, slightly guilty for being well-off British-Irish family, I always had quite a considerable leftist leaning on economic issues - until I discovered the Austrian School of economics. I honestly can't remember how I first came to know of the Austrian School (I don't study economics of politics in school, largely because the economics is all Keynesian and the politics is all very, very statist), but having read only a tiny fraction of all the classical liberal and anarchist literature available, I already consider myself, at least nominally, an anarcho-capitalist.
Thank you to the Ludwig von Mises Institute for this incredible website. In times where the Keynesians and socialists are blaming all our economic woes on laissez-faire capitalism, it's wonderful to have at least one website that serves as an outpost for intellectual honesty and economic sanity.
VanDoodah.
Glad to have you with us.
Welcome! I love how this website is helping those of us that are inclined to freedom to discover the rational behind it. School was so frustrating for me, because it was all about parroting back to the teacher what the teacher forced down our throats. The opposing view was never discussed. In fact, nothing was ever discussed.
At most, 5% of the population would need to stop complying to bring down the government.
Ludwig von Mises Institute | 518 West Magnolia Avenue | Auburn, Alabama 36832-4528
Phone: 334.321.2100 · Fax: 334.321.2119
contact@Mises.org | webmaster | AOL-IM MainMises
Mises.org sitemap