High time preference is a sign of economic degradation, and Bose shows that a rejection of Christian sexual ethics is a feature of a high time preference society.

After being bamboozled by the fake crisis of “overpopulation” for a half-century, the nations with advanced economies are coming to grips with the “birth dearth” problems ahead of them. Not surprisingly, governments are compounding their earlier anti-population errors.

Both many Pro-Natalists as well as their critics have a Malthusian view of the world in which humans seem to be impervious to incentives and changing conditions. It is time for praxeologists to speak up.

Both many pro-natalists as well as their critics have a Malthusian view of the world in which humans seem to be impervious to incentives and changing conditions. It is time for praxeologists to speak up.

With Fathers Day approaching, fatherhood is one more casualty of American progressivism, resulting in many social pathologies. Unfortunately, many conservatives and progressives seem united in the belief that the situation requires more government intervention.

Why do cultures degenerate? Robin Hanson cites biological factors, but Mises and the Austrians point directly to purposeful choices.

Why do cultures degenerate? At the recent Natal Conference, Robin Hanson cites biological and evolutionary factors. However, if one looks to Mises and the Austrians, we look squarely at human action that begins with the human mind and purposeful action.

Any government deploying this so-called policy tool is trespassing upon property rights. As a result, human beings are in a word: dehumanized.

Guido Hülsmann’s Abundance, Generosity, and the State provides readers with an explanation of the nature and causes of gratuitous goods. Hülsmann demonstrates how free markets are infused with both intentional and unintentional gratuity, and how the repressive and permissive interventions of the modern state lead to their destruction.This work is desperately needed and represents a remarkable achievement by one of the Austrian School’s leading lights of our time. It is the first successful and systematic treatment of this underappreciated category of human action. Therefore, it is no exaggeration to say that it belongs alongside the great advancements in economic science, and I can say, without hesitation, that it will stand alongside works such as Ludwig von Mises’s Socialism and Murray

Guido Hülsmann’s Abundance, Generosity, and the State provides readers with an explanation of the nature and causes of gratuitous goods. Hülsmann demonstrates how free markets are infused with both intentional and unintentional gratuity, and how the repressive and permissive interventions of the modern state lead to their destruction.
This work is desperately needed and represents a remarkable achievement by one of the Austrian School’s leading lights of our time. It is the first successful and systematic treatment of this underappreciated category of human action. Therefore, it is no exaggeration to say that it belongs alongside the great advancements in economic science, and I can say, without hesitation, that it will stand alongside works such as Ludwig von Mises’s Socialism and Murray

Gloria Steinem declared, "The personal is political." Today, politics has reached into family life and even procreation itself, an unhappy trend for unhappy people.

Original Article: "The Politicization of Procreation: The Ultimate in "the Personal Is Political""
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In the ultimate example of “the personal is political,” families form, break up, or expand due to US presidential elections according to a recent article in the American Economic Review. Apparently, the alternative responses of doom or elation that occasions electoral politics is so extreme that the losers couldn’t bear to bring a child into such a world, while the winners . . . well, you know.

While Christians the world over look to the celebration as a way to remember the incarnation of Christ, some dismiss it as a Christianized version of the ancient Rome’s Saturnalia. Whatever one’s view happens to be, I humbly suggest that it ought to be used by Christians and non-Christians alike as a reflection upon a collision of two kingdoms and two forms of rule. One that makes the way for life, and the other for misery, suffering, and death.
If the celebration of Christmas is an acknowledgement of the Almighty’s offering of peace and goodwill to people everywhere, then it behooves all people to remember who it is that offers universal war and ill-will. No other earthly institution has so consistently offered the latter than the state. The advent story itself reminds us in the second