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Mar 23

Notes on Time Preference

The concept of “time preference” is crucial to the study of economics. The concept itself — of preferring present satisfaction to future satisfaction — is not just a common feature of human psychology, but ingrained in the Praxeological framework of the human mind. Human beings act; they utilize means for…

Economics

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Notes on Time Preference
Notes on Time Preference
Economics

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Feb 23

Libertarianism and Secession

Is there a Libertarian right to secession? The majority of Libertarians would answer in the affirmative. Moreover, Libertarians have historically been supportive of secessionist movements all over the world, including many current secessionist or secession-lite movements, such as “Brexit” in the United Kingdom and the “Texit” or “Cal-Exit” movements in…

Libertarianism

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Libertarianism and Secession
Libertarianism and Secession
Libertarianism

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Feb 8

Libertarianism and Order: A Response to Curtis Yarvin

On January 11, 2023, Michael Malice hosted a debate on his podcast “Your Welcome” between Curtis Yarvin and Dave Smith. The subject of the debate was Libertarianism. Smith argued for and Yarvin argued against. I found the debate very thought-provoking, especially given that Yarvin has the perspective of being a…

Libertarianism

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Libertarianism and Order: A Response to Curtis Yarvin
Libertarianism and Order: A Response to Curtis Yarvin
Libertarianism

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Jan 30

How Carl Menger Started World War I

Carl Menger was the founder of the Austrian School of Economics, one of the central figures of the Marginal Revolution, author of “Principles of Economics”, and one of the foremost European scholars of his day. What follows is the story of how he (indirectly) started World War I. Very early…

World War I

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How Carl Menger Started World War I
How Carl Menger Started World War I
World War I

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Jan 16

The Fallacies of the “Public Goods” Argument for the State

One of the foremost arguments in favor of the existence of the state is the consequentialist argument. This argument posits that the state’s actions in society are justified because they make society a better place — or in more proper terms — increase society’s total welfare. …

Libertarianism

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The Fallacies of the “Public Goods” Argument for the State
The Fallacies of the “Public Goods” Argument for the State
Libertarianism

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Jan 1

A Review of Every Book I Read in 2022

Over the course of 2022, I read approximately 37 books. I say approximately because it is completely possible (and completely probable) that there’s one or two that I read this year but forgot about, or incorrectly assumed I had read it in a previous year. Regardless, below is a short…

Reading

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Reading

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Dec 16, 2022

Learning Austrian Economics with AI?

If you thought you still had time before our robot overlords would arrive, I am saddened to report that you are mistaken. They are here, and its name is Chat GPT. There’s been various forms of AI — most of them quite gimmicky — that have been available to the…

Artificial Intelligence

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Learning Austrian Economics with AI?
Learning Austrian Economics with AI?
Artificial Intelligence

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Dec 1, 2022

Thymological Investigations

One of the least-examined topics in the realm of Austrian Economics is the category of Thymology. As a frame of reference, searching “Praxeology” in Google Scholar yields 16,800 results, whereas searching “Thymology” yields only 477. Even its originator, Ludwig von Mises, wrote about Thymology only sparingly. In Theory and History…

Austrian Economics

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Thymological Investigations
Thymological Investigations
Austrian Economics

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Nov 18, 2022

Praxeology, Thymology, and Market Power

One of the core tenets of the Neoclassical view of competition and monopolies is market power. Taking an example from a run-of-the-mill mainstream economics textbook, it reads: “You may recall that a market is competitive if each buyer and seller is compared to the size of the market and, therefore…

Economics

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Praxeology, Thymology, and Market Power
Praxeology, Thymology, and Market Power
Economics

7 min read


Nov 7, 2022

Blog Post #100

This officially marks my one-hundredth blog post! I first started my blog in December of 2018, began regularly updating it in October of 2019 and have been consistently writing here ever since. …

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