김경훈 Gyeonghoon Kim 🇰🇷

My First Article for @mises mises.org/power-market/p…

Needless to say, the business cycle theory has always been the major project of the Austrians and it’s hard to see how one can separate it from the other things he pays lip service to.

While the Mises Institute will probably continue to benefit for quite some time from the prestige built up over decades, Hans-Hermann Hoppe's latest testimony further highlights the Institute's moral and intellectual decline. My piece in @rothbard_brasil. rothbardbrasil.com/the-mises-inst…

@PhilWMagness @NSKinsella thoughtfully reached out to bridge the gap in perspectives regarding Hoppe, you have not reconsidered your position. What seems to be the hurdle? This lack of flexibility is unexpected from a scholar of your caliber.

Most of the people who claim Hoppe is a "great economist" don't actually care about his economic contributions (of which there aren't any of note). They are drawn to him because he tries to justify racial segregation through an incoherent Habermasian theory of property rights.

After years of service, he’s suddenly a nobody to them

@NSKinsella @HoppeQuotes @The_PFBC @propfreedom Wtf

Hoppe Removed as Mises Institute Senior Distinguished Fellow propertyandfreedom.org/2026/04/hoppe-… nb @HoppeQuotes ; @The_PFBC @propfreedom

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I am currently writing my master's thesis in the philosophy of science, specifically focusing on methodological individualism within the philosophy of the social sciences. I am reaching out to you because you were supervised by Alex Rosenberg and appear to be one of the few experts in this field with profound expertise on this subject. My objective is to defend the methodological individualism of Weber, Hayek, and Popper. Prior to this defense, I intend to critique methodological holism, which is currently the most widely accepted position. Methodological holists advocate for the explanatory autonomy of the upper level based on the multiple realizability argument, and they often dismiss methodological individualists, including Hayek, as proponents of mere reductionism. As Hayekian philosophers of science such as Di Iorio and Bulle have effectively exposed the misunderstandings of these texts and the ignorance of their historical context, I will not address those issues directly. Rather, as you have pointed out, genuine methodological individualists do not deny the supervenience relationship highlighted by the multiple realizability argument. What I am interested in, regardless of whether methodological individualism can accommodate the multiple realizability argument, is whether introducing this argument is actually useful for understanding the micro-macro relationship in the social sciences. I am aware that there are several prior studies addressing this point (Greve 2010; Mitrovic 2016; Ramstrom 2018; Ylikoski 2024). I have doubts about whether the fact that social phenomena are multiply realized can truly serve as a favorable tool for holists, and I would like to ask for your perspective on this matter.

THS / ChatGPT Seminar Hayek on rival functional implementations, multiple realizability, and dynamic systems in every changing contextual environments.

😱 𝟭𝟬𝘁𝗵 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰 - the last time Jordan Pickford conceded a goal in an England shirt.

The Republican Party needs free-market, pro-trade, anti-war voices. I’ll keep fighting for those principles no matter what.

I am about to sign a contract to do a book on (long dramatic pause) Hayek. Details to come, in the fullness of time. @PeterBoettke @FriedrichHayek @Econ_4_Everyone

@RonPaul I thought he was wearing a kippah.

U.S. Foreign Bases Should've Been Closed Voluntarily --- Now They're Being Destroyed

한국 미제스 연구소가 (그럴 가능성이 희박할 수도 있겠지만) 미래에 미국 미제스 연구소정도의 규모가 된다면, 정치인에게 상을 수여하는 것에 대해 굉장히 신중해야만 한다. 우선, 현직 정치인에게는 절대로 자유의 상을 주어서는 안된다. (설령 진심으로 리버테리언이라 한들 말이다.) 그는 임기중에 언제든지 자유의 원칙을 저버릴 강력한 유인이 존재하기 때문이다. 정치인들의 사적인 파티나 모임에 가본적이 있다면 무슨 말인지 이해할 것이다. 유인이라는 것은 단순히 경제적 동기만이 아니다. 정치인은 인간 관계에 있어서도ㅡ정치적인 문제로 인해 관계가 껄끄러워지는 것을 피하고 싶어한다. 특히나 상대가 거물급이라면 말이다. 따라서 현직 정치인에게는 절대로 상을 주어선 안된다. 둘째, 상을 주어야 한다면, 그 정치인은 임기가 완전히 끝나 정치적 행보를 더 이상 할 수 없는 사람에 한해야만 한다. 그리고 엄격히 정치인의 업적을 평가해야 한다. 그의 입법뿐만 아니라 행적, 말까지 모두 평가에 반영해야만 한다. (자유기업원은 조금이라도 기업에 유리한 법안을 내놓거나 조금이라도 감세한 정치인이면 상을 주는 것 같은데 잘못되어도 한참 잘못되었다.) 그 평가의 기준은 자유와 재산권을 잘 지켜냈느냐이다. 예를 들어 노조문제를 다룰때 노조를 불법화 하는 것이 아닌 노조에게 가는 모든 특권을 폐지했다면 자유와 재산권을 잘 보호한 것이다. 그리고 모든 분야에서 정부의 영역을 폐지하고 억제 했다면 자유와 재산권을 잘 보호한 것이다. 말 역시 이와 일치했다면 그는 정말로 상을 받을 만한 자격이 되는 것이다. 물론, 그럴만한 사람을 지금 국회에서 찾을 수 없고 앞으로도 찾기 힘들 것이다. 하지만 이러한 기준이 있어야만 '자유의 상'이 갖는 무게와 가치는 진정으로 의미가 있는 것이다.

The organizers, when they invite me to a fancy conference

<고문과 사건조작 사법살인 같은 최악의 국가폭력 범죄자들에게 준 훈포장 박탈은 만시지탄이나 당연한 조치입니다. 국가폭력범죄의 형사 공소시효와 민사소멸시효 배제법도 꼭 추진하겠습니다. 오늘 최악의 국가폭력 사건인 제주 4.3 참배를 갑니다. 영문도 모른채 이유 없이 죽창에 찔리고 카빈 총에 맞고 생매장당해 죽은 원혼들의 명복을 빕니다. 다시는 대한민국에 이런 비극이 발생하지 않게 하겠습니다. #비정상의정상화 #국가폭력범죄시효배제 > 남영동 절규어린 '금빛 훈장' 박탈되나…경찰, 7만개 전수조사 v.daum.net/v/202603290657…

Exactly. The influence of pro-Japanese collaborators persisted through the Rhee and Park eras (Park was even a Manchukuo officer) and continues in today's mainstram conservative leadership. Crucially, they’ve adapted by repackaging their original "anti-communist statism" as "free market liberalism" to stay relevant in a globalized, democratic era(This is clearly the negative legacy of Reagan and Thatcher, and unfortunately, it’s the same role that Milei is playing today.). Their defense of the Japanese colonial period is grounded in a neoclassical economic approach—though, as far as I know, most mainstream economists remain largely skeptical of this. A representative example is the book '反日種族主義' (Anti-Japan Tribalism), which has also been translated and published in Japanese. Professor Yoong-Deok Jeon, the Academic Dean of Mises Korea and the only Rothbardian economist in Korea, published a study refuting the favorable assessment of the colonial era from a Mises-Rothbardian Austrian perspective. Surprisingly, his analysis was rejected by many self-proclaimed libertarians—even those who usually loved the Austrian Eonomics for its stances on limited government and low taxes. A Book review of Professor Jeon’s Rothbardian analysis was once introduced in Japanese by the Japanese branch of Hankyoreh(japan.hani.co.kr/arti/culture/5…). It garnered over 300 malicious comments on Yahoo Japan. For some reason, that article has since been deleted and can no longer be found on Yahoo.

That's interesting. It reminds me of the self-proclaimed Japanese liberals (right-wingers) who justify Imperial Japan's rule over the Korean Peninsula by claiming it "did good things" as well. And indeed, there are historical ties between "pro-Japanese" figures in South Korea and Imperial Japan. 興味深いですね。帝国日本の朝鮮半島支配について「良いこともした」と正当化する日本の自称自由主義者（右翼）を連想します。そして実際、韓国の「親日派」と帝国日本は歴史的なつながりがあります。

thanks to Ten Hag for picking Mount over Garner. Genius move.

@libertypressjp It is the same in Korea. A striking characteristic of self-proclaimed libertarians here is their attempt to provide a libertarian defense of authoritarian and statist eras, such as the Japanese colonial period and the regimes of Rhee Syngman and Park Chung-hee.

日本の自称自由主義者は、本質が国家主義者なので、国家と真剣に対決することができない。その弱点を最もさらけ出すのが、戦争についてだ。自称自由主義者は、税金や福祉、経済規制などについては、それなりにまともなことを言う。しかし、マレー・ロスバードが自由主義にとって経済問題よりも重要だと言った戦争については、沈黙するか、むしろ国家主義者の本性をあらわにし、戦争を擁護する。偽者はしょせん偽物でしかない。

@burnthalies @mises I agree, and I actually added that in a follow-up comment (I’m limited to 180 characters because I don't have a paid account). I was specifically raising an issue with the nuance of the last sentence in this post, not dismissing the value of their academic work.

@ActionAxiom @mises it doesnt downplay anything. Should we toss out all of Walter Block's work because of his horrific views on Palestine? No, there is much to gain from that just as much as with JHS's economic works.

A century after Ludwig von Mises exposed the fundamental weakness in the socialist economy, Jesus Huerta de Soto demonstrates why Mises was right and his detractors were wrong. In Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon explains why de Soto is right. mises.org/mises-wire/de-…

@mises I am not downplaying the academic value of this book. However, this issue is far too complex to be dismissed simply as “a higher opinion of a contemporary political figure.”

@mises The last sentence downplays the seriousness of the issue. We can't just ignore HdS's support for Milei, especially given how respected HdS is in our field. To me, this is much worse than a libertarian supporting a regular statist from the Republican or Democratic Party.