Ludwig von Mises
economist · 1 mention across 1 reading
In this course
Mises anchors a particular strain of libertarian thought that equates government intervention with tyranny—a foundational premise for cyberlibertarian ideology and its rejection of regulatory structures. The course readings invoke Mises through this lineage (Rothbard, Friedman, Reagan, Thatcher) to trace how Austrian school economics became the philosophical bedrock for tech-utopian arguments that position unregulated markets and decentralized systems as inherently liberatory against state control. His praxeological defense of market logic provides the intellectual scaffolding cyberlibertarians use to justify technological systems designed to circumvent or replace governmental authority.
Background
Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Mises was an Austrian and American political economist and philosopher of the Austrian school. Mises wrote and lectured extensively on the social contributions of classical liberalism and the central role of consumers in a market economy. He is best known for his work in praxeology, particularly for studies comparing communism and capitalism, as well as for being a defender of classical liberalism in the face of rising illiberalism and authoritarianism throughout much of Europe during the 20th century.
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