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(if you want the " by dummies" version, read Ayn Rand)

[/ QUOTE ] FYP. ACists quote Mises and Rothbard more often than Rand anyway.

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Well said.

Kant's conjectures about ethics are open to a lot of interpretation, because notions of "treating people as ends rather than means" are hazy. To Rothbard, Mises, or Friedman, capitalism treats people as ends since everyone must trade as equals--they think socialism treats people as means for society's ends. Marxists and other socialists by contrast see capitalism as exploitative, since employees and labor are treated as means to the end of the capitalist's profit. Who's right? Probably neither, since in any economic system there is bound to be some behavior beyond the individual basis that is anti-Kantian by someone's interpretation.