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You should also consider Murray Rothbard's " Conceived in Liberty 4 Volume Set " if you are interested in early American history. It starts from the beginning of the Union to about the Revolution if I remember correctly. Also, it is told from the perspective of a libertarian economist, which is a very, very big plus.
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"Anyway, I was hoping if somebody could provide me with an intellectual argument against this ideal...socialism/marxism/trotskyism" It seems to me that most of the arguments put forth by Socialists are emotional in nature rather than intellectual. As such, perhaps you should be looking for an argument that appeals to his emotions instead of
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Continuing on the theme of double standards, it is outrageous that so many people still believe that the organization called the State is a source for good in the world despite how many deaths (not to mention destruction to property, emotional pain and lost economic opportunities) are directly attributable to State activities. For example: http://www
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It's all about decision-making. Check out Henry Hazlitt's "A Way to Willpower" available Mises.org here http://mises.org/books/willpower.pdf . Oldie but a goodie.
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It was an accurate assumption. I'm bi...cultural that is.
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My pet peeve is the seemingly ubiquitous belief that profit is somehow inherently unethical rather than a monetary measure of how well a person is serving other people.
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@ gocrew Count me as another fan of Withur We. It is one of the few science fiction books I have read that I had a hard time putting down. I spent a few nights staying up way too late because I just had to see what would happen next! I particularly enjoyed the economics and libertarian ethics sprinkled about within the story. One of the characters even
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Rettoper, You err when you assume a society can be only 100% statist or only 100% anarchic and implicitly disallow the third possibility. Kinda' reminds me of the the old chicken and egg "dilemma."
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Layano: "If people buy more stuff, doesn't that mean more goods need to be produced ? And if more goods need to be produced, more people need to be hired to produce these stuffs ?" Think about the logic here. People buy more => more jobs => more wealth => people buy more => more jobs => more wealth, etc, etc. Why doesn't
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Jesse, Sorry about the delayed response. Also, my Reply button doesn't seem to be working, so I am Quick Replying and quoting manually. Me: "It would mean the end of us." Jesse: "Really? Why?" I defer to Mises on questions of economics. Thanks for the quote I. Ryan. Being a more simple minded fellow, I tend to take the direct