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Liberty should be understood as freedom from the government, specifically, freedom from the initiation of physical force by the government.

George Reisman

Liberty should be understood as freedom from the government, specifically, freedom from the initiation of physical force by the government.

Tags: anarcho capitalism, anarchy, ancap, austrian economics, austrian school of economics, coercion, communism, freedom, libertarian, liberty

Under capitalism each individual engages in economic planning.

George Reisman

Under capitalism each individual engages in economic planning.

Tags: finance, planning, capitalism

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George Gerald Reisman (; born January 13, 1937) is an American economist. He is Professor Emeritus of Economics at Pepperdine University and the author of The Government Against the Economy (1979), which was praised by both F. A. Hayek and Henry Hazlitt, and Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics (1996). He is known as an advocate of free market or laissez-faire capitalism.

Whoever claims that economic competition represents 'survival of the fittest' in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of knowledge of economics.

George Reisman

Whoever claims that economic competition represents 'survival of the fittest' in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of knowledge of economics.

Tags: law, competition, survival