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Five Pillars of Economic Freedom | Laissez-Faire Bookstore
volition, ownership, cooperation, learning and competition
liberalism  libertarianism 
6 days ago by iand
The Outsourced Life - NYTimes.com
Still, the mere existence of a paid wantologist indicates just how far the market has penetrated our intimate lives. Can it be that we are no longer confident to identify even our most ordinary desires without a professional to guide us?
community  civics  libertarianism  the-market 
11 days ago by yayitsrob
Marcus Licinius Crassus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Most notorious was his acquisition of burning houses: when Crassus received word that a house was on fire, he would arrive and purchase the doomed property along with surrounding buildings for a modest sum, and then employ his army of 500 clients to put the fire out before much damage had been done. Crassus's clients employed the Roman method of firefighting—destroying the burning building to curtail the spread of the flames.[7]
history  libertarianism 
16 days ago by jmck
The Humanitarian with the Guillotine - Isabel Paterson - Mises Daily
Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their deliberate actions, long persevered in, which they hold to be motivated by high ideals toward virtuous ends.

This is demonstrably true; nor could it occur otherwise. The percentage of positively malignant, vicious, or depraved persons is necessarily small, for no species could survive if its members were habitually and consciously bent upon injuring one another. Destruction is so easy that even a minority of persistently evil intent could shortly exterminate the unsuspecting majority of well-disposed persons. Murder, theft, rapine, and destruction are easily within the power of every individual at any time. If it is presumed that they are restrained only by fear or force, what is it they fear, or who would turn the force against them if all men were of like mind?
libertarianism  politics  ideology  identity  ideas  philosophy 
23 days ago by lll8lll8lll8lll
Markets Not Capitalism « Human Iterations
Markets Not Capitalism is a powerful and long-overdue compilation of Market Anarchist thought.
anticapitalism  libertarianism  politics 
26 days ago by iand

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