Mises Daily Thursday: A Capitalist Christmas

Tags: Interventionism, Philosophy and Methodology, Free Markets

12/25/2014 Mises Wire Mises Institute

Mises Daily Thursday by Dale Steinreich.

Christmas is the most pro-capitalist of all holidays because its worldly joys are based on private property, voluntary exchange, and mutual benefit. It’s also one of the least political of all major holidays.

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