Thread by @libertarianism

Today, we're remembering our friend, economics editor, and a true champion of liberalism, Steve Horwitz, who passed away this weekend.

This thread will gather tributes as well as highlights of Steve's work with us.

"Steve was a teacher, a father, a husband, a communicator, a mentor, a Rush fan, a scholar, a writer, a pontificator, and much more."

Thoughts from @TCBurrus:
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"The issues are too important and the opportunity is too great to let the weight of our historical concerns about the term “social justice” stop us from doing the work that needs to be done." - Steve Horwitz
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"If nothing else, recapturing that older use of [the word] privilege would focus our attention on those issues, and positioning ourselves as opponents of privilege might have some rhetorical value." - Steve Horwitz
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"... the only way to discover what the new, different, and better might be is to change the rules to allow competition to flourish." - Steve Horwitz
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"Social coordination depends upon our ability to form correct expectations of others, and those expectations emerge unplanned out of human interaction." - Steve Horwitz
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"Good economists are constantly asking 'is it worth it?' and 'as compared to what?' Those two questions, which are deeply intertwined, provide the analytic framework for applying the economic way of thinking to a whole range of topics." - Steve Horwitz
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"Although willingness and ability to pay may seem unfair at any point in time, allocation by price is the only method available to ensure a continual supply of better and cheaper goods and services for more people over time."
- Steve Horwitz
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"Bottom‐​up solutions are almost always superior to those imposed from the top down because they can take advantage of meaningful consent and local knowledge."
- Steve Horwitz
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"You can achieve excellence. You can do it your way and succeed. You can be you, be successful, and be happy. Neil wrote about it in song after song, and Rush lived it despite the challenges they faced." - Steve Horwitz
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"In an increasingly crowded market with so many products old and new, the economy of attention is key. Advertising allows others to pay the cost of enabling us to discover new opportunities for consumption."
- Steve Horwitz
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"Income and wealth are often confused when we talk about people being 'rich.' There are two possible ways to parse that claim: the person’s income is high, or the person is very wealthy. Those need not both be true at the same time." - Steve Horwitz
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"Price ceilings and price floors are government policies that turn out to produce exactly the opposite of what they intend, and thereby create problems that are often responded to with even more poor policies."
- Steve Horwitz
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"You can never regulate just producers or sellers. Regulations limit the choices of all of us."
- Steve Horwitz
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"If we want to generate economic growth, whether in a recovery or outside of a business cycle, we need to focus on what sorts of institutions and policies encourage economically sustainable production."
- Steve Horwitz
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"The experience of freedom and oppression is very different for different groups of the 'we' that go under the name 'Americans.' " - Steve Horwitz
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"The reality of intellectual and political change is that coalitions have to be built by persuading people of the ideas in question." - Steve Horwitz
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Steve Horwitz created a 7‑part lecture series to go with his book, "Austrian Economics: An Introduction."
Follow this thread for links to each part of the series, and download a digital version of his book for FREE here
libertarianism.org/books/austrian…

Part 1: The Marginal Revolution and the Birth of the Austrian School
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Part 2: The Socialist Calculation Debate
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Part 3: Friedrich Hayek Explains the Function of the Price System
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Part 4: Israel Kirzner’s Theory of Entrepreneurship
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Part 5: The Origin of Money
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Part 6: The Austrian Theory of the Business Cycle
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Part 7: Preference Rankings and Marginal Utility
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