Check out my latest piece from the #Mises Institute

A comprehensive understanding of economic exchange illuminates the transformative power of voluntary transactions and the consequences of coercion. Voluntary exchanges, driven by self-interest, freedom, and mutual benefit, unleash the forces of prosperity, innovation, and personal autonomy. They create a society where individuals can freely engage in mutually beneficial transactions, fostering societal well-being and upholding the moral fabric of economic interactions.

Conversely, coercion disrupts the delicate balance of power, compromises individual freedom, and distorts the ethical foundations of economic exchange. By recognizing the moral implications of voluntary and coerced exchanges, we gain profound insights into the virtues of voluntary transactions and the detrimental effects of coercion on market effectiveness and individual freedom.

https://mises.org/wire/simplicity-and-significance-mutual-economic-exchange

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Wow brother! Congratulations, great piece of work and way to dive in.

Thanks! 🙏

The major function of praxeology—of economics—is to bring to the world the knowledge of these indirect, these hidden, consequences of the different forms of human action. The hidden order, harmony, and efficiency of the voluntary free market, the hidden disorder, conflict, and gross inefficiency of coercion and intervention—these are the great truths that economic science, through deductive analysis from self-evident axioms, reveals to us. Praxeology cannot, by itself, pass ethical judgment or make policy decisions. Praxeology, through its Wertfrei laws, informs us that the workings of the voluntary principle and of the free market lead inexorably to freedom, prosperity, harmony, efficiency, and order; while coercion and government intervention lead inexorably to hegemony, conflict, exploitation of man by man, inefficiency, poverty, and chaos. At this point, praxeology retires from the scene; and it is up to the citizen—the ethicist—to choose his political course according to the values that he holds dear.

Murray Rothbard

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Lovely article, Thank You.🙏😁💜👍

I hope to pass it along to some of my peers. I've just launched a discussion group intended to foster enterprise and entrepreneurial spirit among members of our church congregation, and we have eight (voluntary) members thus far.😁

They'll surely appreciate your work.🙏👍

Thanks for sharing! 🙏

Hope it goes well for everyone in your group 🤙