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A Robinson Crusoe-Based Sociology of Law

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Blog08/02/2022

How can people deal with conflicts in a peaceful and mutually agreeable way? Mises, Hoppe, and Robinson Crusoe himself point the way.

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The Language Vandals

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Blog07/20/2022

Language is an institution in society. We need to protect it from vandals in the state-linguistic complex.

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Libertarian Law by Democratic Means: A Method for Conflict Resolution

LawPhilosophy and Methodology

Blog07/16/2022

What is libertarian law and how does it function? Ludwig von Mises answered some of those questions and helped chart a path to achieving such a state of affairs.

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Civil Society and Counterrevolution against Progressivism

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Blog07/06/2022

"Repealing the twentieth century" sounds like madness to many. Yet the progressivism that came from that century will be the death knell of civilization if not stopped.

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Rising Interest Rates May Blow Up the Federal Budget

Philosophy and MethodologyPolitical Theory

Blog07/01/2022

Congress enjoys exorbitant political privilege in the form of cheap deficit spending—but it may soon come to an end.

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Jordan Peterson on Austrian Economics: Free Markets Are "Profoundly Equitable"

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Blog04/18/2022

Jordan Peterson is turning his eye toward Austrian economics. Unlike the many conservatives who see free market advocacy as some sort of "dangerous fundamentalism," Peterson seems to get it.

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Why Austrians Stress Ordinal Utility

Austrian Economics OverviewPhilosophy and Methodology

Blog02/03/2022

Sometimes people—even other economists—are incredulous that the Austrians deny the possibility of interpersonal utility comparisons.

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Murray Rothbard versus the Public Choice School

Philosophy and Methodology

Blog11/26/2021

James Buchanan thought the state was a voluntary institution. Murray Rothbard, on the other hand, understood the reality of state violence and coercion.

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What the New Nobel Winners Get Wrong about Economics

Philosophy and MethodologyPraxeology

Blog10/12/2021

The new Nobel winners apparently think we can discover economic laws by crunching numbers. That's not how it works.

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