How to End Wars

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Prior to the advent of the free market concept, there was no peace in the world. When the adoption of free market principles expands the level of world peace increases. When free market principles are replaced by other systems of resource allocation world peace decreases.

In a free market system all trade is voluntary. Every other economic system relies on force of some kind.  In command style economies political power is used to extract resources from one and give to another.

Where entire nations are concerned, a country can use free market principles within its own borders but use economics by force where trade with other countries is concerned. Free markets between nations amount to free trade. By free trade, I mean no restrictions at all on on goods and services entering and leaving the country. Any other system of managing trade results in small wars breaking out eventually a large war. The United States makes trade agreements that are claimed to promote free trade, but they are actually always something else.

So, does the United States want peace or war? It doesn’t matter what the preferences is since belief in free market ideology is waning. There will war and plenty of it. There are at least two best practices that must be followed by any country which claims to be an agent of peace.

Foreign policy must be based on principles of morality. All but a few wars are wars for profit.

Free trade must be initiated unilaterally. In the U.S. there should be no restrictions on foreign good leaving and entering the country, provided they are legal. Where free trade is concerned there are winners and loser but net prosperity is always at an optimum and the possibility of war is always at a minimum.

Basically, if the United States genuinely wants peace, the best thing to do is move back to the free market ideology.  National defense begins by using the economic system that is the only source of peace mankind has ever known

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James Quillian independent scholar,free market economist,and teacher of natural law. Who is James Quillian? Certainly I am nobody special, Just a tireless academic and deep thinker. Besides that, I have broken the code with respect to economics and political science. Credentials? Nothing you would be impressed with. I am not a household name. It is hard to become famous writing that virtually no one in the country is genuinely not in touch with reality. But, if I did not do that, there would be no point in my broking the broken the code. If you read the blog, it is easy to see that there are just a few charts, no math and no quantitative analysis. That is not by accident. Given what I know, those items are completely useless. I do turn out to be highly adept at applying natural law. Natural law has predominance over any principles the social science comes up. By virtue of understanding natural law, I can debunk, in just a few sentences , any theory that calls for intervention by a government. My taking the time to understand the ins and outs of Keynes General Theory is about like expecting a chemistry student to completely grasp all that the alchemists of the middle ages thought they understood in efforts to turn base metals into goal. Keynesian theory clearly calls for complete objectivity. Government can only make political decisions. Keynesian techniques call for economic decisions. So, why go any further with that? Fantasy Free Economics is in a sense a lot like technical analysis. Technical analysis began with the premise that it was impossible to gain enough information studying fundamentals to gain a trading advantage. Study the behavior of investors instead. Unlike technical analysis, I don't use technical charts. What I understand are the incentives of different people and entities active in the economics arena. For example, there is no such thing as an incentive to serve with life in the aggregate. In the aggregate, only self interest applies. It is routinely assumed otherwise. That is highly unappealing. But, I am sorry. That is the way it is. I can accept that because I am genuinely in touch with reality. Step one in using Fantasy Free Economics is for me to understand just how little I really know. A highly credentialed economist may know 100 times what I do based on the standard dogma. Compare the knowledge each of us has compared to all there is to know and we both look like we know nothing at all. There is always more than we don't know than what we do know. I am humble enough to present myself on that basis. Why? That is the way it is. I am not bad at math. I have taught math. What I understand is when to use it and when to rely on something else. Math is useless in natural law so I don't use it. While others look at numbers, I am busy understanding the forces in nature that makes their numbers what they are. That gives me a clear advantage.