Tag: Voluntary Cooperation

Notable Quote – and proves that “Taxation is Theft” just like that!

January 10, 2022

by Skip

Or, a bit longer with more words. But the conclusion is the same: Among the assumptions at the foundation of this article is that we human beings extend our ability to achieve our goals by cooperating with each other. And the greater is the number of individuals with whom we cooperate, the greater is the … Read more

Spontaneous Order vs Top-Down Command Order: differences in a Nursery School

May 28, 2021

by Skip

I’m betting you’re a bit puzzled by that title. How can there be “order” in a Nursery School with two classrooms full of 3, 4, 5, and 6-year-olds (and in the case of the Grandson, the latter two ages)? Complete chaos, yes.

Notable Quote – Cooperation

May 1, 2021

by Skip

What has changed over humanity’s recent history is not biology, psychology, physiology, ecology, or geography. What has changed, instead, is their attitudes. As economic historian Deirdre McCloskey has demonstrated in her magisterial three-volume investigation under the general title The Bourgeois Era, the most salient factor distinguishing the post-1800 era from everything that went before is the attitudes people held … Read more

The “obvious and simple system of natural liberty.”

January 7, 2020

by Skip

The supreme and inestimable merit of the exchange mechanism is that it enables a vast number of people to cooperate in the use of means to achieve ends as far as their interests are mutual, without arguing or in any way agreeing about either the ends or the methods of achieving them.