Free Markets

Economics is about the most important and interesting drama of all — human action.

Once one realizes where the state fails, one can only conclude that the best course of political action is to reduce the size of the state or even do away with it altogether.

Only those who embrace Pink's advice to develop a whole new mind, and Hazlitt's recommendation to develop real thinking and problem-solving skills, will be successfully employed in the dark days ahead.

In a recent flash of insight, I came up with a way to make charitable impulses more productive, but I had to abandon the idea once I realized the government wouldn't approve.

You rarely know the prices of what you are getting.

"The fact that credit booms are encouraged by derivative instruments has substantially increased the destabilizing effects of an artificial credit-expansion policy carried out by keeping the market interest rates below natural interest rates."

"With a free-market defense system, each man acts to defend his own values to the extent he wishes to have them defended, regardless of what piece of real estate he happens to be occupying."

Until that happy day when education is disestablished, Illich is searching for methods of moving strongly away from the public education system.

Given the rate at which our wealth and culture seem to be eroding away from beneath our feet, I urge both my elders and my peers to oppose the leviathan state and its cronies at every turn so we can start a new journey toward lasting prosperity.

After all, as motivated producers are necessary for providing marketable goods, so motivated sellers are necessary for delivering these goods to the willing buyers.