# Introduction ## The Golden rule: Non-aggression principle - [[Golden rule - Non-aggression principle]] ## How people from different places cooperate together: I, pencil (Moi, le crayon) - Leaonard Read How people from different countries, cultures, religions, cooperate with each other to make everything around us, starting from the simple example of the pencil. - [Le crayon, pouvoir du marché et capitalisme | par Milton Friedman (VOST) - YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47lazI9h_SE&feature=related) - [Moi, simple crayon « made in world » | Libre échange avec Alain Madelin](http://www.alainmadelin.fr/blog/analyses/moi-simple-crayon-%C2%AB-made-in-world-%C2%BB/) - [Leonard Read : Moi, le crayon | Un Monde Libre](http://www.unmondelibre.org/Read_Crayon) - [Moi, le crayon](http://herve.dequengo.free.fr/Read/Read1.htm) ## Debunking the usual fallacies surrounding capitalism and liberalism - Great book on this: [Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics - Henry Hazlitt - Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Economics-One-Lesson-Shortest-Understand/dp/0517548232). Some of the debunked fallacies and their economical impact, covered in the book: - The blessings of destruction ("a good war") - The fetish for full employment - Creating jobs in the public sectors/bureaucrats - Spread-the-work schemes (limited work supply) - Rent control - Saving the "X" industry - Government price-fixing - Minimum wage laws - Raising wages with unions - The need to reduce "obscene" profits - The unused savings of the population/rich - Interesting article on this written to improve the quality of the political debates, and debunk the: [Common logical fallacies surrounding capitalism - Alex MacCaw](https://blog.alexmaccaw.com/common-logical-fallacies-surrounding-capitalism/): - Inflation is caused by corporate greed. - Wealthy people hoard their money in bank vaults (or gold swimming pools). - There was a perfect time in history, and we should strive to return to that. - There is a finite amount of work to be done within an economy which can be distributed to create more or fewer jobs. - Corporations don’t pay any tax. - The rich pay no tax. - Salaries are set by individual companies or the government, and that some salaries are artificially inflated or deflated. - Rent caps lower prices.  - Building luxury apartments doesn’t improve the affordability of existing apartments, or even that it increases their prices. - There is a fixed pie of wealth, and that every winner creates a loser.  - Employment is a form of exploitation. - Technology is unaffordable and only for the rich. - Earth is running-out of resources. # Readings ## So you think that money is the root of all evil? - Rand - [The Meaning of Money](https://courses.aynrand.org/works/the-meaning-of-money/) by Ayn Rand ## The use of knowledge in society - Hayek - [Hayek, The Use of Knowledge in Society | Library of Economics and Liberty](http://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/hykKnw1.html) # Videos ## How capitalism lifted millions out of hunger and poverty -  ## How the 2008 crisis was caused by the FED and saved by entrepreneurship & free market - [The 2008 financial crisis | Brian S. Wesbury | TEDxCountyLineRoad - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=RrFSO62p0jk) - 2008 crisis was caused by the FED, and the economy was saved by the free market and entrepreneurship ## Milton Friedman - [Milton Friedman: socialisme vs capitalisme. (vost) - YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryOJ2z07wHg&feature=related) - [Milton Friedman on slavery and colonisation / Milton Friedman sur l'esclavage et la colonisation vostfr - YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai4CWVYxHvA&feature=related) - [Milton Friedman - The Free Lunch Myth - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmqoCHR14n8) - [The 4 ways to spend money / Les 4 façons de dépenser l'argent - Milton Friedman. - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T_HZ4C3dlg) - [Milton FRIEDMAN vs Naomi KLEIN - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN1rBsMcbOM) - [Milton Friedman: Why soaking the rich won't work. - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wi-D24oCa10) ## Ayn Rand - [Ayn Rand: Why Altruism is Wrong - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lv3VkSwhhkU) ## Other videos: Robert Nozick, John Perry Barlow, Karl Popper's Falsification - [The Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace / John Perry Barlow - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WS9DhSIWR0) - [Robert Nozick - History of slavery / L'histoire de l'esclave (racontée par T. Woods) - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxgRfWWAlK4) - [Karl Popper's Falsification - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf-sGqBsWv4) ## Rigged political system & crony capitalism - [Charles Koch: Political System is 'Rigged' - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elAgl1QozXk) ## Humor - [Hayek vs Keynes - VOSTfr - Vidéo Dailymotion](http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xc5c82_hayek-contre-keynes-vostfr_fun?) - +: les commentaires/l'analyse macroéconomique en français sur la vidéo: [La macroéconomie en Rap : Hayek versus Keynes | Captain Economics](https://www.captaineconomics.fr/-la-macroeconomie-en-rap-hayek-versus-keynes) - [Gaspard Proust - Vous en connaissez beaucoup des gens qui se font enfuis à l'Est ? - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86oX9S-6gy8) # Others - [There is no alternative - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_is_no_alternative) - [Quadratic voting (2014) | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15206291) ## French libertarian NGOs - [Institut Coppet](http://www.institutcoppet.org/) - [Contrepoints](http://www.contrepoints.org/) - Captain Economics - [Les externalités : concept trop méconnu ! - Captain Economics](http://www.captaineconomics.fr/theorie-economique/item/216-les-externalites-concept-trop-meconnu) - [Plus d'un salarié sur cinq en France est fonctionnaire ! - Captain Economics](http://www.captaineconomics.fr/captain-tv/item/199-plus-d-un-salarie-sur-cinq-en-france-est-fonctionnaire) - [Les hausses de SMIC sont des baisers de Judas pour les gens sans qualification - Captain Economics](http://www.captaineconomics.fr/captain-tv/item/174-les-hausses-de-smic-sont-des-baisers-de-judas-pour-les-gens-sans-qualification)