The Division of Labor and Social Order

Is a market economy a war of all against all, or the very thing that makes peace possible? Shawn Ritenour makes the Misesian case for the latter. Building from specialization and the law of comparative advantage—why even a person outdone at everything still has a place—he shows how the division of labor turns our inequalities into the glue of society, and why the only way to profit in a market is to serve someone else first.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 20, 2025.

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