Philosophy and Methodology

The Mises Circle in Naples, Florida. Recorded 26 February 2011.

The book is not about the need to cut the budget. Well, sure, the budget would be low to nonexistent if people adopted the views I defend here. But my aim is far more ambitious than that. I am inviting the reader, step by step, to rethink the view of government and society he has imbibed since childhood. A tall order, to be sure. But I'm throwing everything I've got at it.

Man the producer must have freedom, while man the predator puts limitations on freedom, writes Frank Chodorov (1887–1966).

The characters are rugged individuals — ingenious in their ability to fend for themselves, under all manner of adverse conditions — and asking for

God knows I had enough to do without sitting and listening to the city people tell me what an idyllic life I had and how they envied me.

It is theoretically conceivable but scarcely likely that the ruling class will rush to embrace a philosophy and a political economy that will end t

It was the physiocrats who broke with centuries of sound economic reasoning and contributed to what would become, in the hands of Smith and Ricardo

It is man’s nature to strive ceaselessly after the substitution of more satisfactory conditions for less satisfactory.

The Mises Circle in Houston, Texas. Sponsored by Jeremy S. Davis. Recorded 22 January 2011.

When the state spends more money than it receives in taxes — a fact indelibly written into the bond — it is deliberately committing an act of bankr