Free Markets

"Let the banks perish. … Now is the time for the complete emancipation of trade from legislative thralldom."

There is, after all, the surprisingly favorable response that libertarianism encounters from people in all walks of life.

"Wells's science-fiction parable fails to offer a fair test of Adam Smith's economic principles. Smith would in fact agree that to make a man invisible would be to turn him into a monster of egoism, for it would set him free from the normal discipline of the market."

But what both the classical and the historical schools have neglected, the Austrian School is today trying to accomplish.

It is very difficult to convince someone that if they refuse free money they will be better off.

It takes a lot of PhDs to convince the public that their systematic looting at the hands of politicians is actually for their own good.

In light of all the varied and bizarre beliefs, usually incorrect and often pernicious, that have informed human communities throughout the past, is it inconceivable that the far more sensible views of libertarianism might someday become widely accepted?

"As long as the easy, attractive, superficial philosophy of Statism remains in control of the citizen's mind, no beneficent social change can be effected, whether by revolution or by any other means."

We may either incorporate ourselves into market civilization, the system by which we may serve ourselves as ends by serving other people as means, or return to the idyllic and isolated "noble" savagery that long characterized our human past.