Property Rights / Human Rights Are Sacred.

Rights, that is rights formalized by law, describe what ‘belongs’ to a human being. Considering that God created human beings ‘in His Image’ the rights belonging to him and her are sacred. Since these are natural it should be evident exactly what it is that laws protect. In accordance with the ethics of social cooperation and the exalted station bestowed on humans by God, liberty is a principal right. Humans love freedom. Property rights are human rights and once these are granted the economy has the foundation it needs to perpetuate social cooperation. “Social cooperation, however, can be based only on the foundation of private ownership of the means of production.” [29]

It is law that protects property rights that are so essential to freedom. “All production, all civilization, rests on recognition of and respect for property rights. A free enterprise system is impossible without security of property as well as security of life. Free enterprise is possible only within a framework of law and order and morality. This means that free enterprise presupposes morality; but, as we shall later see, it also helps to preserve and promote it.” [30] Freedom from the State is what made the political anarchy of Western civilization, which operated according to the principles of classical liberalism, so prosperous relatively speaking. “If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.” [31]

Liberty & Justice of Economic Equilibrium, pp. 15-16.

[29] Ludwig von Mises, Epistemological Problems of Economics, Third edition, (Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2003), p. 40.

[30] Henry Hazlitt, The Foundations of Morality, (The Foundation For Economic Education, Inc., 1998), p. 303.

[31] Ludwig von Mises, Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War, (Liberty Fund, and Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2010), p. 58.

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Corruption of Law Preceded Dissolution Of Ethics.

To go against the norms, to act immorally, and to run counter to the wisdom of ethics requires two things: an ego-driven motivation, and an economic incentive. Law can either eliminate that incentive or enable it. “Law tended to become secular and independent of theology sooner than did ethics. It also became more definite and explicit.” [25]

Liberty & Justice of Economic Equilibrium, p.14.

[25] Henry Hazlitt, The Foundations of Morality, (The Foundation For Economic Education, Inc., 1998), p. 64.

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The Anti-Social, Ego-Driven Structure Laws In An Artificial Way.

But don’t forget that the signs of prosperity can and do attract the attention of the ego-driven. To interpose oneself without consequent penalties would be the most preferred situation for the ego-driven, hence we can see why attempts to structure laws in an artificial way can come under the influence of anti-social (someone who weakens or destroys the natural processes in society) individuals.

Liberty & Justice of Economic Equilibrium, p. 14.

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The State Is Not A Natural Order According To The Divine Economy Theory.

Rest assured, the State is not a natural order and this can be easily proven by the divine economy theory. All ego-driven intervention disrupts equilibrium. The State is the best means only if the ends desired is despotism. “The main political problem is how to prevent the rulers from becoming despots and enslaving the citizenry.” [17] Without the State the natural order of social cooperation would prevail. “The State is the only institution entitled to apply coercion and compulsion and to inflict harm upon individuals. This tremendous power cannot be abandoned to the discretion of some men, however competent and clever they may deem themselves. It is necessary to restrict its application. This is the task of the laws.” [18] These are the laws that are compatible with liberty and justice and these are the laws that we are interested in exploring.

Liberty & Justice of Economic Equilibrium, p. 11.

[17] Ludwig von Mises, The Theory of Money and Credit, (Yale University Press, 1953), p. 454.

[18] Ludwig von Mises, Bureaucracy, (Center For Futures Education, 1983), p. 76.

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"Mixed Economy" Is Immoral And Unjust.

To those who talk about a ‘mixed economy’ there is no such thing that is sustainable in the long run simply because interventionism is unnatural, immoral, and unjust.

Liberty & Justice of Economic Equilibrium, p. 10.

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The State Legalizes Its Illegal Actions!

Let us again consider the monopoly power of the State. Those things that for an individual are deemed as crimes are deemed as legal for the State. To coercively take the property of another is acceptable if the State is the aggressor. To fraudulently multiply the money stock as a way to extract wealth from people in the community is called counterfeiting and it is a crime unless it is done by the State. Now consider the regulations and laws that are touted to offer protection against the evils of monopoly power. Yet the State is a gigantic conglomeration of a growing number of monopolies. Where is the ‘anti-trust’ fervor against these monopolies? The monopoly control of the legal system rules that out!

Liberty & Justice of Economic Equilibrium, p. 10.

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The State Tyrannically Squashes "Checks And Balances."

The aspiring for power by the State is eliminative. Lesser entities are gobbled up and centralization increases even despite the so-called ‘checks and balances.’ Take for an example the States rights conferred in the United States Constitution. The expansive U.S. federal government has almost completely usurped all of the States rights. Almost gone is that check and balance at the time of this writing. The order, or more accurately, the disorder that will in the end come from this eliminative centralization is totalitarianism and tyrannical rule.

Liberty & Justice of Economic Equilibrium, p. 10.

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Coercive Extraction Of Wealth Is Robbery.

Law decreed by legislation is at variance with the market process. Rather than free exchanges the exchange process is coerced. In a free market all coercive extraction of wealth is considered to be robbery and the perpetrator is considered a thief.

Liberty & Justice of Economic Equilibrium, p. 9.

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State Formation Is The Seed Of The Destruction Of Civilization.

What we are then witnessing is the seed of the destruction of civilization. This is the trend towards no ethics, no justice, and no liberty. It can be traced back to the use of power to take advantage of others. It starts with an individual but it expands. This is the beginning of State formation! There are only two ways to acquire property and wealth: through production (economic means) or through coercive expropriation (political means).

As it expands it creates a political class. The incentives within such an environment stimulates even more ego-driven ambition to intervene in more and more ways, expanding in all directions with the far-off ultimate goal to gain complete monopoly control, with the power to confiscate and distribute without restraint.

As the State becomes a pervasive influence in the culture it begins to control the information about itself and begins to weave myths about its merits. It finds ways to bring within the confines of its tabernacle the representatives of science and religion and uses these ‘tools’ to do two things: 1.) to reduce opposition from people who depend on these authority figures for their judgments, 2.) to create a culture of relative morality, weakening both science and religion in everyone’s eyes, thereby weakening any opposition by leaders of science and religion as the potential rivals to the absolute State.

Also brought within its tabernacle are the other social institutions for the purpose of increasing its power. What we have are economics professionals and legal professionals including legislators and politicians all serving to promote the goals of the State. This is the point where the political class that benefits from the wealth transfer theory of government becomes the new aristocracy with separate, special ‘legal’ interests. “Whoever wields law has power over everyone else.” [11]

At this point the State has succeeded in altering the perception of law: as something that is made by the government.

Liberty & Justice of Economic Equilibrium, p. 8.

[11] Philip K. Howard, The Lost Art of Drawing the Line, (Random House/New York, 2001), Pp. 68-9.

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The Ego-Driven Corruption Of Western Civilization.

Of course not all cities, even in the culture of what can be called Western civilization, were equally enlightened nor did these modern cities with a higher degree of righteousness remain uncorrupted over time. Asymmetry crept in and reciprocity waned.

Power-to-be-had was enticing. The dual nature of human beings cannot be forgotten as a factor in history since there can be no doubt that it played a significant role in the history of human civilization. Let us assume that one person becomes ego-driven and lusts after power. That affects history. But it is not just one person lusting after power, it is many. And because humans are all connected within society and within civilization, all are affected by this.

How is civilization affected? All things associated with human thought and activity feel the effects. This means that economics and ethics, and justice and liberty, and law and order, and peace and prosperity are all changed in a negative way. Also, consequently, what is considered as education is altered. The disconnection caused by the exercising of the lower human nature reverberates and is amplified and compounded. It is not necessarily a condition of chaos but it is disorder, and it is destructive.

Liberty & Justice of Economic Equilibrium, p. 6.

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Error-Plagued Systems Resolved By State-Of-The-Art Science.

Look around and see if there is evidence that the human culture has been contaminated. It is easy to see that we are at a critical point in history. Left alone – without the benefits of state-of-the-art knowledge of economics, ethics, liberty and justice – the culture will continue to spoil. But that is not what we are going to do. Instead our objective is to explore the error-plagued systems, to raise everyone’s awareness of state-of-the-art science, and thereby provide the necessary tools to evaluate and correct the errors. “It is vain to object that life and reality are not logical. Life and reality are neither logical nor illogical; they are simply given. But logic is the only tool available to man for the comprehension of both.” [6]

Liberty & Justice of Economic Equilibrium, pp. 4-5.

[6] Ludwig von Mises, Human Action, The Fourth Edition, (Irvington-on-Hudson, NY: Foundation for Economic Education, 1996), p. 67.

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Use Of The Deductive Method Is "Cutting Edge" Science.

With regards testing, “What makes natural science possible is the power to experiment; what makes social science possible is the power to grasp or to comprehend the meaning of human action.” [4] Using the deductive or a priori method to bridge the gaps between the world of things and the world of thoughts and emotions - and reasoning from previous experience or from established principles to particular facts - we proceed, confirming observation and experimental data as a well as replacing them. Such is life on the cutting edge!

Liberty & Justice of Economic Equilibrium, p. 2

[4] Ludwig von Mises, Money, Method, and the Market Process, (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990), p. 9.

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