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Overcoming Hamilton’s Curse, Part 3: Habits & Complexes

by: Oliver DeMille March 11, 2010

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This is part 3 of a 5-part article.
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There are at least two major roadblocks hindering this needed Freedom Shift.
The first is habit. Our society has become habituated, at times addicted, to certain lifestyles.
For example, when the recession hit, people spent more money, not [...]

Overcoming Hamilton’s Curse, Part 1: Failed Solutions

by: Oliver DeMille March 9, 2010

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This is part 1 of a 5-part article.
When America decided to follow Alexander Hamilton’s economic model instead of the Jeffersonian system, a number of changes occurred which now haunt our generation.
Jefferson envisioned a nation of small farm and shop owners that spread around leadership and prosperity, while Hamilton preferred [...]

21st Century Georgics: An Introduction

by: Hyrum Lefler March 8, 2010

A key factor in maintaining freedom is sustainable economic forms.
Are you maintaining freedom through the financial principles and practices you are using? Have American families adopted the economic forms necessary for the preservation of a free people?
The average American household pays over 34.5% of every dollar earned to interest payments. Forget about [...]

More Insights on Entrepreneurship from Alan Webber

by: Stephen Palmer March 6, 2010

If you’ve enjoyed Oliver’s articles on entrepreneurship, you need to read these three exceptional articles by Alan Webber (and particularly the third, though you should read them in this order):
Mindset, Game, & Match
Munger to Friedman to Diamond!
On Icebergs and Ducks
A few excerpts:
“If you look up the word ‘mindset’ in the dictionary, here’s what you get: [...]

Entrepreneurs of the World, Unite!, Part 4

by: Oliver DeMille March 5, 2010

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The Growing Popularity of Producer Education
Consider what leading thinkers on the needs of American education and business are saying.
In Revolutionary Wealth, renowned futurist Alvin Toffler says that schools must deemphasize outdated [...]

Entrepreneurs of the World, Unite!, Part 3

by: Oliver DeMille March 4, 2010

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The Power of Entrepreneurship
The wooden stake that overcomes the vampire of an inelastic class system is entrepreneurial success.
Becoming a producer and successfully creating new value in society helps the entrepreneur surpass [...]

Entrepreneurs of the World, Unite!, Part 2

by: Oliver DeMille March 3, 2010

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Producer vs. Employee Society
A society of producers is more likely to promote freedom than a society of dependents. Indeed, only a society of producers can maintain freedom.
Most nations in history have [...]

Entrepreneurs of the World, Unite!, Part 1

by: Oliver DeMille March 2, 2010

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A revolution is needed.
Not just any revolution, mind you, but a specific kind of freedom shift that will make the critical difference.
In order to progress, we need a renaissance [...]

Slavery Reparations: Hacking at Leaves, Ignoring Roots

by: Stephen Palmer February 18, 2010

Associated Press writer Ashley M. Heher once reported that,
“Lawyers for slave descendants asked a federal appeals court…to revive a landmark reparations case that demands 17 of the nation’s insurers and banks publicize and pay for their roles in the country’s slave trade.
“The case, which names Wall Street behemoths JP Morgan Chase & Co., [...]

Independents & Tea Party, Part 3: Liberal vs. Conservative Populism

by: Oliver DeMille February 17, 2010

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Note, in contrast [to conservative populism], that liberal populism typically follows a different path.
Movements such as Abolition, Feminism, Civil Rights and Environmentalism build and build until they are legislated. At that point, liberal populists [...]