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The Triumph of Technology over Government Planning
Mises Daily
Author: Edward Wayne Younkins
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Category: Entrepreneurship, Political Theory, Free Markets
[Excerpted from Capitalism and Commerce: Conceptual Foundations of Free Enterprise (2002). Thanks to David Schatz.] The egalitarian belief that people must be identical throughout society is wrong. Those life forms that are most alike are the lowest life forms. Man, the highest form of life, displays the most diversity and the widest individual
A Tale of the Reinvention of Capitalism
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Author: Edward Wayne Younkins
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Category: Interventionism, Free Markets, Media and Culture
Henry Hazlitt’s novel, Time Will Run Back , was originally published in 1951 as The Great Idea . It teaches that if capitalism did not exist, then it would be necessary to invent it. It makes the case that the discovery of capitalism is one of the greatest triumphs of the human mind. In his nonfiction works Hazlitt is a master with respect to
Essay on Austrian and Objectivist Metaphysics and Epistemology
Mises Wire
Author: Edward Wayne Younkins
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This is the most recent of my four essays looking at the compatibility of Austrian Economics with Objectivism. This one deals with metaphysics and epistemology and some implications for value theory [and ethics]. Metaphysics and Epistemology for a Free Society: The Views of Menger, Mises, and Rand The others in this series are: Developing a
Human Nature, Flourishing, and Happiness: Toward a Synthesis of Aristotelianism, Austrian Economics, Positive Psychology, and Ayn Rand’s Objectivism
Libertarian Papers
Author: Edward Wayne Younkins
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Volume 2, Article 35 (2010) The question of what leads to or makes up a flourishing and happy human life has been debated throughout the entire history of political and moral philosophy and, more recently, in the social sciences such as economics and positive psychology. There have been numerous attempts to define, analyze, and even measure human
Unity and Integration in Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged
Libertarian Papers
Author: Edward Wayne Younkins
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Volume 3, Article 5 (2011) In Atlas Shrugged (1957), Ayn Rand presents her original, brilliant, and controversial philosophy of Objectivism in dramatized form. More than a great novel, it expounds a radically new philosophy with amazing clarity. Atlas Shrugged presents an integrated and all-embracing perspective of man and man’s relationship to
Ayn Rand and the Austrian Economists
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Author: Edward Wayne Younkins
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Category: History of the Austrian School of Economics, Other Schools of Thought, Libertarianism
Henry Hazlitt Memorial Lecture. Sponsored by Shone and Brae Sadler. Recorded at the Austrian Economics Research Conference, 22 March 2024, in Auburn, Alabama. Includes an introduction by Joseph T. Salerno. Lecture Text:  Thank you, Joseph, for your kind introduction and thank you, Shone and Brae Sadler, for your generous sponsorship in making this