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The Bastiat Institute was founded in 2009 by Daniel Brackins. The Institute is named after Frédéric Bastiat (June 30, 1801 – December 24, 1850), a French classical liberal theorist and political economist.
The mission of the Bastiat Institute is to increase understanding of the principles of Austrian economics, free markets, individual liberty, and peace. The Bastiat Institute will use the most effective means to originate, advocate, promote, and disseminate information about the creation of free, open, and civil societies throughout the world.
In order to maintain its independence, the Bastiat Institute accepts no government funding, nor does it align itself with any political party.

A conversation with David Graeber, anarchist and associate professor of anthropology at Yale University about the negative implications of globalization

Market Anarchism is the doctrine that the legislative, adjudicative, and protective functions unjustly and inefficiently monopolised by the coercive State should be entirely turned over to the voluntary, consensual forces of market society.
The first explicit defender of Market Anarchism was the 19th-century economist and social theorist Gustave de Molinari. The idea was taken up by the individualist anarchists, particularly those associated with Benjamin Tucker’s journal Liberty. More recently, Market Anarchism has been revived by a number of thinkers in the libertarian movement. The terms “anarcho-capitalism” and “voluntary socialism” have both been associated with the Market Anarchist tradition.
The Molinari Institute, our parent organization, publishes and links to a large amount of online resources on market anarchism.

Agorism is simply the philosophy that holds all relationships between people should be voluntary, and no unchosen positive obligations should be enforced with violence.
Those who subscribe to Agorist philosophy believe that government is immoral because it uses violence (both directly and hidden) to accomplish its ends which is the direct opposite of a voluntary relationship.  As such, we try not to invoke these types of relationships with other individuals, and try to avoid other people invoking these kind of unchosen demands upon us as well.  We understand we will have to do things such as pay taxes, wait at the DMV, and show up for jury duty; but that doesn’t mean one cannot take some steps towards finding freedom in their own lives.
That is what Everyday Agorism is about; the goal is to remove all the unchosen positive obligations from your life that you can, and not allow yourself to be enslaved by those you cannot.

Much confusion exits about money and currency. (Note the color assigments.) As you have no doubt figured out, the IBLs (International Banklords) like it that way because it blows out a natural smoke screen that plays right in to their greedy pockets. Farmers Credit Tickets was left as simple as possible to make it interesting for you. Its purpose was to get the basic idea of money across to you. Here, now, is an explanation of the difference between money and currency.
Two concepts exist that must be understood. If you don’t grasp these two concepts, the banklords will continue to enslave you by making you work for them for free. Not too good a thought, is it? So, let’s fix it. Okay? Good. The two concepts are
1. Money is unreal, meaning imaginary, intangible.
2. Currency is NOT money, but merely represents money.