I’m 27. I hold a bachelor’s degree in business from a mid-major public university, and a Masters degree in Economics from a much smaller private school. I worked for a few years in real estate, but now I’m doing market research - so it’s a lot of number crunching, although the Stats department handles most of the heavy lifting.
I am primarily a self-taught libertarian. I used to say “market-anarchist” or “anarcho-capitalist,” but I’m growing tired of labels. Recently, I’ve been delving more into agorism. The bottom line is that I believe that freedom and voluntary interaction are the only moral societal arrangements, and that any form of violence, including the governments, are unnecessary and evil.
Like many, it began with Rand’s “Fountainhead,” and a few years later, “Atlas Shrugged.” But it didn’t really all come together until my mid-twenties. That was Hayek and Friedman, who really cemented the relationship between political freedom and economic freedom. I don’t sweat the details very much. But I’ve also got a healthy dose of Mises and Rothbard, a bookshelf full of economics from Bastiat and Cournot forwards - I haven’t read my copy of “Wealth of Nations” yet. I’ve got my Aristotle, J.S. Mill, Spooner, Boetie, and then some. Although I find reading beneficial, I am too much of a libertine to bother with the semantics of dry, philosophical writings. I get it, already; I’m sold - move on to the next guy.
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