Our civilization is under a huge amount of stress and strain these days, so much so that we really are at a tipping point; this is obvious simply by looking around. Education, poverty, war, safety & well being, substance abuse, firearm misuse, homelessness, food production, environmental abuse just to name a few. Yikes! Seems like an insurmountable list! When viewed as isolated or separate issues it definitely is; trying to fix them in this manner is similar to an unending game of Whack-A-Mole which can only end in frustration, inaction and apathy. Instead, let's mentally chuck the lot, start again, look at things from the bottom up, from the beginning and find a new pathway forward that can, by its very nature, whack a large number of those moles leaving us with the time, energy and resources to manage what remains.
Austrian Economics
Founded in 1871 by Carl Menger and championed by economists like Ludwig von Mises, F.A. Hayek and Murray Rothbard, this line of thinking takes a more philosophical approach to economics, exploring more the human condition and individuality instead of central planning with its endless charts and numbers.
