Ideas that change paradigms
Economics and business essays
In war, the strong prevail over the weak;
in business, the strong impart strength to the weak.
- Frédéric Bastiat · French economist, 1801–1850
Why the free economy is not a "war of all against all"
A free market is 80% cooperation and only 20% competition. The narrative of conflict is false - and the data from the UN itself proves it.
Carl Menger, the Copernicus of economics and the discoverer of win-win games
Why value is not created in exchange but in the human mind - and how that discovery destroyed the theory of exploitation.
Vietnam: How pro-freedom reforms lifted 45 million out of poverty
And why Marxist socialists do not want to talk about it. The most documented case of prosperity generated by economic openness in the 20th century.
Say's Surplus Value: The final refutation of Karl Marx's theory of exploitation
The mistake was not Marx's - it was Adam Smith's, and Marx inherited it with intelligence. The deduction was correct; the problem was in the premise.
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