Understanding Economics Series
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Common sense economic lessons for the interested layman. How a free market economy works, from an Austrian School perspective.
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Lesson Zero: Thinking Like a (Good) Economist.

Learn how to sort through some of the largest fallacies in economics, and apply good economic thinking to your daily life. All of this comes with mastery of a single fallacy that is the root of all economic error. Also, a brief note on ethics in economics.

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How I branched away from just Political Science towards economics, and recently philosophy and psychology especially dealing with the origins of statism.

Also an announcement – since I’ve been restructuring my theory of ethics, I won’t be doing any videos on ethics for a little while. I’d be happy to answer comments and questions as to what I am currently doing, but don’t expect a presentation on it for a little while.

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What Does Anarchy Really Mean?

On 1 September 2009, in philosophy, politics, by Ryan

Every political ideology since the dawn of time has suffered from exaggerations and false impressions, either from a layman’s innocent confusion or through strategic deception by rival ideologies seeking to discredit it.  Perhaps no political idea has ever been more falsely understood, so hopelessly marginalized, and so pretentiously reprimanded than that of anarchy.

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What is law?  What is justice?  What makes a “good law” and what is a “bad law”?  Are we obliged to follow a bad law?  Are we obliged to follow law at all?  Is disobedience moral?  Is law necessary for society?  What would the law in a free society look like?  These are just some of the questions that I’ll answer in my Law & Justice series.

In Part I: Ethics and Natural Law, we’ll derive the origins of law by examining human nature and the theory of natural rights, as well as form a simple code of ethics for a theory of law to abide by.

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