Daniel Morena Viton

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The Cultural Consequences of the Welfare State

04/28/2025 Mises Wire Daniel Morena Viton

The foundations of the welfare state can be found in Bismark’s idea of the social state, which, at first, was used to fight socialists on a political level, but hell is full of good intentions...

Should We Embrace the Stateless Roman Political Thought?

11/29/2023 Mises Wire Daniel Morena Viton

The traditionalist author Álvaro d’Ors emphasized in his work that the political thought of Rome was essentially stateless as it had a personalistic character. In contrast, Greek political thought had...

Coto Mixto: Anarchy in Galicia

06/03/2023 Mises Wire Daniel Morena Viton

A concrete example of an anarchic order existed within Spain, on the current border between Spain and Portugal, in the kingdoms of Castilla and Galicia. By “anarchy” I mean the abolition of...

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Should We Embrace the Stateless Roman Political Thought?

12/13/2023 Daniel Morena Viton

The concept of the state has more to do with the worldview of ancient Greek philosophers than with the Roman Empire. We could learn a few things about statelessness from the Romans.

Coto Mixto: Anarchy in Galicia

06/17/2023 Daniel Morena Viton

People commonly believe that a society without central political authority will dissolve into chaos. But a small kingdom within Spain existed peacefully for seven hundred years under what we would call anarchy.

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