Daniel Morena Viton

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06/05/2025 Mises Wire Daniel Morena Viton

Nominalist ideas influenced the scientific revolution, shaping its departure from metaphysics, its mechanistic perspective, and the mathematization of all sciences. This paradigm has brought about some errors in economic thinking.

The Cultural Consequences of Inflation

05/29/2025 Mises Wire Daniel Morena Viton

It is easy to think of inflation as just being economic in scope. Yet, as inflation becomes an expected part of the body politic, it affects the culture as well, encouraging everyone to try to live beyond their means.

The Cultural Consequences of the Welfare State

04/28/2025 Mises Wire Daniel Morena Viton

The welfare state is supposed to signal the existence of the “compassionate” society that provides care for all. However, this “compassion” has resulted in the proliferation of social pathologies that undermine civilization itself.

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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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