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Category: Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski

Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski

Economics without ethics is a caricature. Ethics without economics is a fairy tale.

business-ethics, economics, ethics, morality, philosophy

Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski

Unorganized morality is called sociability. Organized morality is called civilization. Unorganized immorality is called barbarity. Organized immorality is called statism.

civilization, immorality, morality, statism

Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski

Voter: someone smart enough to choose how to be fooled.

election, stupidity, voter, voting

Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski

The history of modern philosophy is the history of losing and regaining the awareness of the fact that there is no third way between the Absolute and the absurd.

meaning-of-life, metaphysics, philosophy

Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski

Abolitionism was a movement to end private slavery. Libertarianism is a movement to end private and public slavery.

abolitionism, libertarianism, slavery

Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski

Whenever one feels like saying “the money that billionaire spent on his fleet of yachts could have been used better by the “public sector”“, one should ask oneself when was the last time one heard of a billionaire buying an army of tanks and a set of nuclear weapons.

billionaire, greed, money, nuclear-weapons, profligacy, public-sector

Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski

A foolish environmentalist wants to save nature from the greed of the market by exposing it to the tragedy of the commons. A smart environmentalist wants to save nature from the tragedy of the commons by exposing it to the greed of the market.

environmentalism, greed, market, nature

Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski

Bad economics teaches that computers can design markets. Good economics teaches that markets can design computers.

computers, economics, markets

Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski

A fool believes that the society of the future will transcend the laws of economics. A person of reason hopes that it will finally learn to respect them.

economics, praxeology, scarcity

Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski

The best way to turn the earth into hell is to turn the state into a god.

god, hell, hell-on-earth, state, statism, totalitarianism

Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski

The surest way to damage society is to call for a “great man” to lead it. The surest way to improve society is to become a great man to lead oneself and convince others to do likewise.

autonomy, leadership, society, voluntaryism

Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski

Entrepreneurship is the use of self-interest in the service of others. Politics is the use of others in the service of self-interest.

cooperation, entrepreneurship, politics, self-interest