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James Mill: Laissez-Faire's Lenin

11/14/2020Mises Daily Articles
As leader of the laissez-faire radicals in England, James Mill was a master of political strategy, although some of his methods were rather morally deficient.
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Why GDP Can't Measure the Quality of Life

Blog11/14/2020

GDP fails to account for many measures of quality of life, such as personal safety, the local climate, leisure time, and more.

The US Savings Bond Scam

Blog11/14/2020

Remember savings bonds? They were popular before the central bank made sure that safe, low-interest investments became a thing of the past. 

Our National Psychosis

Blog11/13/2020

"We’re already past any of these illusions about democracy or politics or constitutionalism. I would argue that we’ve reached the point where loving our country requires us to identify and begin to separate the various nations which are within it. I think there’s nothing more important today."

The Google Election

Blog11/13/2020

We are witnessing the governmentalization of private industry, the turning of supposedly private enterprises into state apparatuses, and the growth of the state through putatively private extensions of it.

Rothbard and the Problem of Rules

Blog11/13/2020

It makes sense that individual ethics can vary within a natural law framework: the nonaggression principle isn't so much a rule to be applied as a norm to be followed. It's the foundation that makes life among other people possible.

Both Theory and Praxis: Rothbard's Plan for Laissez-Faire Activism

Blog11/13/2020

It should be self-evident that a just and moral political regime can only exist in the long term if a sufficiently large number of people actually believe in it.

Stop Confusing Money with Wealth

Blog11/13/2020

Useful goods and services, and the productive resources needed to create useful goods and services, are wealth. Money is not wealth, and creating more money without first creating wealth is a big problem. 

Do Elections Matter?

11/12/2020Mises Media

Ideas have consequences, and unless we spread the ideas of freedom and free markets first, no election or politician will bring about the changes we want. 

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