Praxeology

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Roy Cordato

Environmental economics is steeped in standard neoclassical theories of efficiency and Pigouvian welfare economics. That's a problem. 

Murray N. Rothbard

Utilitarianism assumes that morality—the good—is purely subjective to each individual. It also assumes that these subjective desires can be added, subtracted, and weighed across the various individuals in society.

Ludwig von Mises

That man acts and that the future is uncertain are by no means two independent matters. They are only two different modes of establishing one thing.

Ludwig von Mises

In our time the most powerful theocratic parties are opposed to the world's great religions. Today's theocrats believe they alone can plan society and that they are enlightened.

Frank Shostak

Popular economic wisdom says central banks can counter harmful effects of inflation by raising interest rates. Unfortunately, such moves carry their own forms of misallocation of resources and capital.

Frank Shostak

The typical mainstream economic view of interest rates ignores an important factor: individual time preferences.

Frank Shostak

Austrian economics begins with logical deductions made from what we know about human action, not data sets that are subject to change.

William H. Peterson

"Let's celebrate the prodigious life of Lu Mises, a life in which he fused crowning insight on how the world tackles the law of scarcity, with lifelong moral courage."