Etymology

counter-economics

Today it means: The study or practice of all peaceful human action which is forbidden by the State. Full definition →

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The term was first used by Samuel Edward Konkin III and J. Neil Schulman who are libertarian theorists, and was coined as part of their agorism doctrine. It is short for "counter-establishment economics"; equivalent to counter- + economics.

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