Publication contributor
This archive contains published site articles attributed to Daniel Sardá. The separate Thinkers section contains historical intellectual profiles, not publication contributors.
Fundamentals
Fiat money does not by itself determine whether individual rights are respected. The decisive question is whether monetary rules are predictable, transparent, and subject to legal limits.
Fundamentals
Property rights protect a legal relationship to assets: they allow people to use, benefit from, transfer, and defend them within general rules and safeguards against arbitrary action.
Fundamentals
Fiat money cannot be redeemed for gold and has no value based on the material it is made from. Its usefulness depends on retaining purchasing power and being accepted in exchange.
Fundamentals
A voluntary exchange occurs when two parties accept an agreement because, given their alternatives, they expect to prefer it to declining it. That expectation neither guarantees the outcome nor makes every bargain just.
Fundamentals
Pluralism does not erase differences: it creates a framework in which people and associations with different convictions can live together without coercion.
Fundamentals
A free market coordinates decentralized decisions through prices, exchange, and general rules. It is neither lawless nor an automatic guarantee of good outcomes.
Fundamentals
Legal certainty does not prevent laws from changing: it requires change to be public, understandable, and subject to limits that prevent arbitrariness.
Fundamentals
Being responsible in what one says is not the same as seeking permission to speak. This guide distinguishes ethics, correction, redress, and legitimate limits on power.
Fundamentals
Civil liberty is not a fixed list of permissions: it is a sphere of decision protected by rules, safeguards, and limits on arbitrary power.
Fundamentals
Economic freedom does not mean an absence of rules: it depends on protected rights, enforceable contracts, and open competition.
Fundamentals
Limited government does not describe a society of isolated individuals. It asks which rules can protect agreements, associations, and diverse projects without imposing a single purpose.
Fundamentals
The debate over fiat money is not settled by asking whether it is backed by gold. The decisive question is which institutions administer it, under what rules, and how they answer for their decisions.
Fundamentals
Overlapping consensus explains how people with deeply different worldviews can support the same political rules without giving up their convictions.
Fundamentals
Land is the physical resource; property organizes the recognized rights over it. The distinction helps explain possession, tenure, and legal certainty.
Fundamentals
Inflation does not automatically make the person who raises a price culpable. Understanding it requires separating causes, mandates, and accountability.
Fundamentals
Habeas corpus allows a deprivation of liberty to be promptly reviewed by a judge. Its purpose is not to acquit someone, but to prevent confinement from continuing without a legal basis and independent scrutiny.
Fundamentals
Legal certainty limits arbitrariness by making rules public, understandable, and foreseeable. It neither requires laws to remain unchanged nor guarantees a favorable result.
Fundamentals
Capital is not simply money or any possession: it consists of produced resources that help create other goods and services over time.
Fundamentals
A nominal interest rate states the agreed interest on a principal amount, but it only becomes meaningful when its period, compounding frequency, and other terms are clear.
Fundamentals
Property is more defensible when its ownership can be identified, proven, and upheld under public and impartial rules.
Fundamentals
A price matters partly because of what it allows you to forgo. Relative prices turn that comparison between goods into a useful, though limited, signal.
Fundamentals
A plural society does not require approval of every idea: it protects the freedom to hold, debate, and organize around them without imposing an orthodoxy.
Fundamentals
Liberal neutrality does not call for a society without values; it asks the state not to use coercion to declare one way of life superior.
Fundamentals
The lack of gold convertibility does not make fiat money unlimited: constraints emerge through credit, demand, prices, and the rules governing those who issue money.