Philosophy and Methodology

"Liberalism" has always been the proper name of the ideology of freedom and free markets. But almost from the beginning, illiberal theorists claimed the name for themselves.

Recorded at Mises University 2018.

Even if everyone were totally charitable, we still could not build a complex economy without the price mechanism provided by markets.

Our modern reliance on government to make law and establish order is not the historical norm.

The central problem that confronts modern libertarian political theory is how to place limits on the number and kinds of intrusions in which government may engage — and how to ensure that it will confine itself to these limits.

War follows protection. Peace follows free trade. As David Ricardo said, “If you want peace, starve the government.”

Cultural Marxism is the philosophy that underlies today's trend toward crushing all dissenting opinions.

Economics is not like the physical sciences, and reasoning and analogies based on the physical sciences are often misleading in economics. 

The history that didn't happen can be just as interesting as the history that did.

Some propositions need only to be stated to become at once evident to the self, and the action axiom is just such a proposition.