If you want to expose the absurdity of the state, think governmental accounting. Really, there is no better way to show the impossibility of a government solution to scarcity than by reading the annual audit of any governmental entity. Goethe considered double-entry bookkeeping — the essence of accounting — to be “ one of the finest inventions of
The Free Market 25, no. 10 (November 2007) A persistent virus is beginning to spread, threatening to sweep the country as the next great epidemic. What is the ill? The Fourier Complex of course. The Fourier Complex ? Yes, it is the mental state—syndrome—identified by its vile symptoms: extreme envy, fear of the free market, belief in
The Free Market 25, no. 10 (Noviembre 2007) Un virus persistente está comenzando a propagarse, amenazando con arrasar el país como la próxima gran epidemia. ¿Qué es la enfermedad? El complejo de Fourier , por supuesto. ¿El complejo de Fourier ? Sí, es el estado mental —síndrome— identificado por sus viles síntomas: envidia extrema, miedo al libre
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The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard.
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