Mises was born 128 years ago today.
Tu ne cedi malis.
http://belowthebeltway.com/2009/09/2...wig-von-mises/
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." - Mark Twain
"Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself." - Mark Twain
"I'm Ron Paul, I'm a Congressman from Texas serving in my tenth term, I am the champion of the Constitution." 05/03/07 - revolution restarts
a shout-out to one of history's finest
So nice when a genius turned uses his powers to promote freedom.
I have his photo framed on my mantle. A girl came over not long ago and asked "Is that your grandfather?" "No, that's Ludwig von Mises, the Einstein of economics." Hahahaha!
That's why I live alone.
I would call him the Tesla of economics. Einstein is way overrated.Originally Posted by Acala
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." - Mark Twain
"Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself." - Mark Twain
"I'm Ron Paul, I'm a Congressman from Texas serving in my tenth term, I am the champion of the Constitution." 05/03/07 - revolution restarts
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Mises.org also has 15% off for the 29th and 30th to celebrate his b-day. Promo code = MISES128
Happy Birthday to Ludwig von Mises!
Send a donation to the Ron Paul 2012 campaign to celebrate this great day.
http://mises.org/daily/5697/Ludwig-v...r-Creator-Hero
What a perfect tool to help us promote the EOQ PUSH! Thank you!
A donation to Ron Paul is a vote for Von Mises!!!
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"Integrity means having to say things that people don't want to hear & especially to say things that the regime doesn't want to hear.” -Ron Paul
"Bathtub falls and police officers kill more Americans than terrorism, yet we've been asked to sacrifice our most sacred rights for fear of falling victim to it." -Edward Snowden
Happy birthday. As a European, I cannot participate to the Quarter Push so instead I ordered tons of books from Mises.org
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My birthday is tomorrow, I will be 25. I'm gonna get myself another Ron Paul shirt and maybe a sign.
I tried to coordinate a money bomb on this date a few months back, but no one really responded. http://thisseptember29th.com/
Ouch... That would have been so much more awesome Quarter bomb!
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Today is...
Ludwig von Mises birthday (Sept 29, 1881)
http://mises.org/page/1468/Biography...Mises-18811973
AND
My birthday - Yay! I made another trip around the sun.
This is a birthday cake my little niece decorated for me yesterday.
AND
National Coffee Day
Go have a free cup of joe at one of these places...
http://money.cnn.com/2014/09/28/news...ney_topstories
Happy 'round the sun day!
"When a portion of wealth is transferred from the person who owns it—without his consent and without compensation, and whether by force or by fraud—to anyone who does not own it, then I say that property is violated; that an act of plunder is committed." - Bastiat : The Law
"nothing evil grows in alcohol" ~ @presence
"I mean can you imagine what it would be like if firemen acted like police officers? They would only go into a burning house only if there's a 100% chance they won't get any burns. I mean, you've got to fully protect thy self first." ~ juleswin
Tip of the cup to LVM
and some birthday balloons and a present for Suzanimal....
LOL, cajun.
I got a few boxes of that for my birthday.
I also got a case of "good stuff" from one of my wine buddies so she wouldn't have to drink my adult capri sun when she comes over.
Happy Birthday Suz!
“The spirits of darkness are now among us. We have to be on guard so that we may realize what is happening when we encounter them and gain a real idea of where they are to be found. The most dangerous thing you can do in the immediate future will be to give yourself up unconsciously to the influences which are definitely present.” ~ Rudolf Steiner
Happy Birthday, Suz!
Based on the idea of natural rights, government secures those rights to the individual by strictly negative intervention, making justice costless and easy of access; and beyond that it does not go. The State, on the other hand, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the idea of natural rights, but on the idea that the individual has no rights except those that the State may provisionally grant him. It has always made justice costly and difficult of access, and has invariably held itself above justice and common morality whenever it could advantage itself by so doing.
--Albert J. Nock
What jerk ass one-starred this?
Happy birthday Suz. I hope you had a great time at the party.
Someone one starred muh thread?!
Lol, whatever...
I did, it was fun but I didn't get a pony.
You'll get one next year for sureI did, it was fun but I didn't get a pony.
I doubt it, I've been asking for one for decades and I never get one.You'll get one next year for sure
Happy birthday!
In Praise of Peace: Happy Birthday, Dr. Mises
The great Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises was born September 29, 1881, making today the 133rd anniversary of his birth. I thought it would be fitting for Anything Peaceful to commemorate this extraordinary thinker’s writings in praise of social cooperation.
Although Mises rejected the idea of natural rights in favor of a cool utilitarianism, he nonetheless was one of the most principled champions of classical liberalism. For Mises, social bonds were upheld not by mere emotional yearnings or even biological urges. No, they were due to empirical facts about production and the ability of human reason to grasp these truths about the world.
Specifically, labor was more productive under the division of labor; it was a simple fact that when one man specialized in growing crops and the other specialized in making shirts, both men ended up with more food and clothing. But for people to seize these gains, they needed private property and the possibility of trade.
So far it may seem as if Mises is merely echoing standard results. Yet Mises pushed the analysis much deeper. He thought that civilization itself rested on these empirical facts and their mental recognition among enough people. The traditional rules of morality ultimately derived from these principles, according to Mises. To allow anti-social behavior (such as murder or theft) threatened the division of labor and hence society itself.
Throughout history many writers have celebrated war as an expression of power and national prestige. Mises would have none of it. Indeed he would often write passages that would sound “soft” if they hadn’t been penned by a man who was an officer in the Austro-Hungarian artillery in World War I and fled Nazi persecution later in life. Here is Mises explaining the relative virtues of war and peace:
On this anniversary of his birth, let us celebrate not only the great economics of Ludwig von Mises, but also his abhorrence of war and appreciation for peace.[An author] errs if…he asserts that "true" civilization and the "good" society are an achievement of people blithely indulging in their passion for violence, murder, and cruelty, that the repression of the impulses toward brutality endangers mankind's evolution and that a substitution of barbarism for humanitarianism would save man from degeneration. The social division of labor and cooperation rests upon conciliatory settlement of disputes. Not war, as Heraclitus said, but peace is the source of all social relations. To man desires other than that for bloodshed are inborn. If he wants to satisfy these other desires, he must forego his urge to kill. He who wants to preserve life and health as well and as long as possible, must realize that respect for other people’s lives and health better serves his aim than the opposite mode of conduct. [Human Action, Scholar’s Edition, pp. 172–173.]
Note: it is also FEE President Larry Reed's birthday. Send him good wishes at his FB page.
http://www.fee.org/the_freeman/detai...peace-dr-mises
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