“Believe it or not, there are a few things worse than the state.” While browsing the blogosphere, Mises.org readers may have come across self-styled “left-libertarians.” You may even consider yourself something of a left-libertarian. Some of these folk, like the philosopher Roderick Long, have some very sound ideas, and many deep insights. There
[David Gordon and Daniel Sanchez will be teaching Libertarian Ethics , an online course starting October 27.] In Thucydides’s History of the Peloponnesian War , the rhetorical orations of ancient Greek statesmen often alternated between appealing to honor and to interest: to justice and to expediency. [1] Similarly, modern classical liberals
“The only fully Misesian economists are Rothbardians, and most Rothbardians have abandoned Mises’s entire approach to the ‘why’ of liberalism.” Students of classic liberalism and Austrian economics might come across a curious inconsistency concerning the doctrine of utilitarianism in Austro-liberal literature. On one hand, you may find vigorous
A great deal of truth can be unveiled via “Crusoe economics” — the analysis of acting man in complete isolation. However, just as it takes two to tango, it also takes two to trade and two to fight; therefore, in the sciences of human action, it takes at least two (a Crusoe and a Friday) for questions of property , exchange , and justice to even
Robinson Crusoe is walking along the beach when he sees a little face looking up at him, half-buried in the sand. He digs it out, and finds that it is a little wooden statue of a pagan deity. Friday is on the same beach, looking through a chest full of odds and ends that has washed up from a shipwreck. He finds a thick book with a cross on it. It
Introducción Cuando el economista austriaco Thomas DiLorenzo testificó recientemente ante el Subcomité de la Cámara sobre Política Monetaria Interna, el congresista William Lacy Clay trató de acusar a la Escuela Austriaca de economía de falta de «rigor científico», porque se basa en el «razonamiento deductivo». Hay algo distópico en un miembro
Robinson Crusoe y Viernes se encuentran cara a cara en una isla desierta. ¿Cómo interactúan? Tal vez Viernes lance una lanza a Crusoe. Tal vez Crusoe le ponga grilletes a Viernes y lo esclavice. Tal vez Crusoe declare que ambos son dueños en común de todos los bienes que cada uno de ellos encuentre o produzca en la isla, pase lo que pase. Ninguna
En la antigua mitología griega, Eris, la diosa de las luchas, era a menudo una villana. Fueron sus intrigas las que condujeron a la Guerra de Troya, que, como dijo Homero, hizo que «muchos héroes... fueran presa de perros y buitres». En la antigua Roma, Concordia, diosa de la armonía social, era una de las deidades más queridas. A menudo, los
En la Historia de la guerra del Peloponeso de Tucídides, las oraciones retóricas de los antiguos estadistas griegos alternaban a menudo la apelación al honor y al interés: a la justicia y a la conveniencia. Del mismo modo, los liberales clásicos modernos (libertarios) suelen adoptar un doble enfoque para defender la libertad. Por un lado,
Los estudiantes del liberalismo clásico y de la economía austriaca pueden encontrarse con una curiosa incoherencia respecto a la doctrina del utilitarismo en la literatura austroliberal. Por un lado, se pueden encontrar vigorosos intentos de refutar la doctrina, o denuncias de su supuesta inadecuación. Especialmente entre los escritores
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