Might as well introduce myself.
I flew in from austrianforums.com, and boy are my arms tired (ba-dum ching). Either way, I’m a math undergrad at ISU in Iowa, U.S..
Not much else to say.
My name is Marc, I am 27 years old and have a B.S. in business management and currently operating an excavating company. I have been converted from a conservitive to an anrcho-capitalist. I always felt uneasy about being a conservative, it seemed that there were to many holes to hold a philosophy together. I came across the Mises institute 6 months ago, but was reading Mises, Hayek and Rothbard a year prior to this glorious discovery. I discovered Hayek via reading Sowell, and discovered Mises from reading Hayek. It is hard not to discover Rothbard once you begin reading Mises.
Hi All - nice forum! Based on the comments, I’m assuming it’s pretty new?
My name is Dave, I own a small business in the manufacturing sector for just about 2 1/2 years now. I graduated with an MBA in '95 and felt like I didn’t know anything, so I went on a self directed learning program over the last 12 years, studying management theory via the school of Dr. W. Edwards Deming and his disciples, then moving on into complexity science and self organizing systems.
My long-held stand against bureaucracy and top-down planning, coupled with my studies in systems theory, made me a natural for the Austrian school. I discovered Murray Rothbard first, and have just been enamored with his disdain of everything government. My screen name (EotS) is in honor of Rothbard, Enemy of the State.
I’m against all forms of socialism and everything that threatens individual liberty. I’m very concerned about the slippery slope of socialist thinking here in the US, and am educating myself to fight it. The Founders were prescient when they warned us to be aware of “all enemies, foreign and domestic.”
My name is already featured.
I’m a Catholic and devout to the church, but my spirituality is much more reformed than I’m sure most of the cardinals would care to hear of.
I’m an Anarchist specifically working in the Agorist, left-libertarian framework. I reject all small statists that call themselves libertarians and merely refer to them as paleocons.
I live on site. I do not typically like to stay in one place at any given time, even as a child I would move around living with my mother, my father, my grandparents, or cousins by choice - not by force of law. I’m not looking to put roots down anywhere and I am not looking to conform or run with the status quo in anyway, I’m looking to overthrow it.
If you want to contact me - specifically if you live in the Northern Illinois/Chicago area - email me at niccolo_adami@yahoo.com
Hope to hear from you about organizing study groups/austrian clubs/agorist chapters.
heh - I’m a member of the Mises Institute, but did not even realize I was on a .com instead of the .org.
Cool beans.
Howdy - I’m just a tractor saleman approaching the half century mark.
Once apon a time I majored in agricultural economics and thought there was something wrong with my money and banking professor.
I enjoy reading and free thinking. Kind of odd for for an old-time Lutheran…well, not exactly…without the concepts of grace and forgiveness there would be no concept of freedom which is liberty under law.
I’m working on my memoirs - “Village Idiot, Man or Myth” and a nifty new recepie book “Cat From Scratch: Kitty Cuisine or Nine Lives to Sunday Dinner”.
I also have some useful inventions made from those free AOL CD’s you get in the mail…
Hello everyone! I am a professional poker player / amateur author from Ontario, Canada and I am an anarcho-capitalist / libertarian activist.
I’m a mechanical engineer, specializing in rolling stock, in Newcastle, Australia. Our company has close ties to GE in Erie, and we do the “odd jobs” that come up that don’t fit into GE’s cookie-cutter style production line. So, we are making locos with GE equipment for places like Kazakhstan, Egypt, Tibet (Western China), Thailand etc. Keeps things interesting.
Not an economist, obviously, but have studied all of LVM’s books, most of Hayek and many others. Can’t abide Rothbard, though.[:P]
Good day.
I am an anti-authoritarian. I hate being told what to do, and don’t like telling people what to do.
I am 32, and a new student. I am now also a new homeschooler. My gratitude to the resource of this institute can not be quantified. So far, my favorite lesson was at the end of Middle of the Road Policy Leads to Socialism. That is not to be anti-socialist, or anti- communist, but to be pro the only system that has been proven to provide the most peace, prosperity, and individual liberty. I have found that Hermetics lead me to the false methodology of polylogism. I was previously very axiomatic. I am glad to of learned from Hazlitt that causality goes beyond it’s immediate and long term effects. Before finding this school I believed that liberty takes responsibility, and when one fails to act responsible one loses liberty. It has given me a great since of hope that I am not the only one crying out to wilfully ignorant ears.
Brett, what don’t you like about Rothbard? I’ve only read some of his works, but what I’ve read of liked. I prefer his student, Hoppe, though.
“It has given me a great since of hope that I am not the only one crying out to wilfully ignorant ears.”
Now, my bread aint riz higher’n anothern’s but if truth was yeast they’s a bunch out ther eatin’ crackers!