segunda-feira, julho 23, 2018

The Economics of the Stateless Society

The Economics of the Stateless Society | Robert P. Murphy

State Or Individual?

State Or Individual?:
Free markets are simply an expression for the freedom accorded to everyone to choose to spend their earnings, profits and savings as they see fit. In these conditions it is the function of businessmen and entrepreneurs to respond to the collective wishes of individuals for the goods and services they desire from time to time. If they fail in this quest they will lose their capital and ultimately go out of business. If they succeed, they make profits. The consumer is king, exercising his right of choice continually, despite any attempts to influence him through the advertising and branding a businessman deploys. The consumer decides the demand for what goods and services he desires, setting their prices. In free markets the businessman has to accept this reality. He has to evolve his products and his pricing to stay in business. He has to compete.

quarta-feira, julho 11, 2018

O Papa anticapitalista

A opção libertária

A opção libertária nas eleições dos EUA:
A ideologia libertária centra-se num princípio fundamental: a liberdade individual; assegurada por liberdade de escolha, voluntarismo, defesa da propriedade individual e assente no transversal princípio de não-agressão.

Um libertário acredita que todos os indivíduos devem ter liberdade de fazer as suas escolhas (morais e económicas) sem imposição ou coerção por terceiros ou pelo Estado, e defende que a única limitação à sua liberdade individual é a liberdade do próximo.

Politicamente, a ideologia libertária defende a tolerância social (pela liberdade de escolha e contra a imposição de valores) e a redução da interferência do Estado na actividades económicas, políticas e sociais dos cidadãos. Defendendo, por exemplo, a liberalização do cannabis e os direitos LGBT, e opondo-se à intervenção dos bancos centrais e aos bail-outs públicos. Na política externa o libertarismo opõe-se ao intervencionismo militar e à ingerência na política interna de outros países.

O Papa anticpitalista

Citação do Dia

There is more than one excuse for being a Descartes, but there is no excuse whatsoever for being a Cartesian.
Étienne Gilson

terça-feira, maio 22, 2018

Modern Educayshun

O Papa anticapitalista

Vaticanomics: Serving the “God” of the State por Thomas DiLorenzo:
By so relentlessly promoting the greater politicization of society the Vatican is promoting more sin, and more unethical behavior, while castigating the far more peaceful and ethical system of voluntary trade and exchange and the international division of labor with economically-illiterate and fact-less arguments.



quinta-feira, abril 26, 2018

Rock & Roll Saved Free Speech

O Papa anticapitalista

The Many Ways the Pope Is Wrong About Capitalism:
However well-meaning Pope Francis may be, he has failed to understand how a free economy works. Economics is a science, and to ignore economic law is futile. As Mises trenchantly observes, “it is futile to approach social facts with the attitude of a censor who approves or disapproves from the point of view of quite arbitrary standards and subjective judgments of value. One must study the laws of human action and social cooperation as he physicist studies the law of nature.”

quinta-feira, abril 19, 2018

Game of Theories: The Austrians

Jovem liberal e descomplexado

Todos os anos marcham pela Avenida da Liberdade aqueles (ou os herdeiros ideológicos daqueles) que lutaram contra a ditadura - mas não a favor da democracia, e muito menos pela liberdade. Em cada slogan, um apelo ao colectivismo. Se levassem a sua avante, Portugal seria mais pobre. A "liberdade" desta gente não é a de gente livre. Mas esperam-se sorrisos embevecidos e declarações para arrancar aplausos.

Jovem liberal e descomplexado

terça-feira, novembro 28, 2017

Alt-Libertarianism

Consent of the Governed, Revisited

Consent of the Governed, Revisited:
For the record, I can state in complete candor that I do not approve of the manner in which I am being treated by the liars, thieves, and murderers who style themselves the Government of the United States of America or by those who constitute the tyrannical pyramid of state, local, and hybrid governments with which this country is massively infested. My sincere wish is that all of these individuals would, for once in their lives, do the honorable thing. In this regard, I suggest that they resign their positions immediately and seek honest employment.