The Entrepreneur

Groups targeted by class warriors in America will achieve more if they follow the Igbos’ path and ignore the politics of grievance.

Many of the best-known civil rights leaders eschewed entrepreneurship, emphasizing that blacks seek employment in the professions and government jobs.

Progressives believe that economies should be run by high-IQ "experts." But successful market economies require entrepreneurs with an idea and the willingness to face uncertain economic conditions.

When we speak of entrepreneurship, we need to specify if it is economic or political. The first expands wealth and freedom; the second makes us poorer and less free.

Ignorant politicians who create no wealth can only impede great visionaries like Henry M. Galt from creating wealth with monetary chicanery, antitrust litigation, labor laws, and other regulatory measures.

While the standard secular narrative is that Christianity held back science and human development, history tells a different story, one of literacy and the development of human capital.

The early American individualists of the nineteenth century were a diverse lot with fixed and unwavering love of true liberty.

Modern economics claims that quantitative methods are central to understanding economic analysis. Mises demonstrated why this belief is untrue.

In earlier days, the government employee was held to be a man who could not have made his way in the business world and was therefore tolerated with condescension.

Recorded in St. Petersburg, Florida on October 22, 2021.