”I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces.” -Étienne de La Boétie
Two $1,000 prizes were awarded at last week’s 2012 Austrian Scholars Conference for outstanding essays. Fittingly, in the ASC celebrating the centennial of Mises’ first magnum opus, The Theory of Money and Credit (although, in the conference, Guido Hulsmann explained, among other mistranslations in the English edition of the book, how “credit”
Tyler Cowen is impressed over “ how much war can spur innovation .” He does not mention all the innovation that redirecting resources away from serving consumers and toward slaughter and destruction will at the same time
Bryan Caplan recently blogged about “the awful” John Stuart Mill, calling him ”shockingly muddled.” Rothbard, more than perhaps any other scholar, exposed Mill’s muddleheadedness and its likely roots. His verdict on Mill was that he was a “woolly minded man of mush” and his philosophy “a vast kitchen midden of diverse and contradictory
In his recent wonderful book, Classical Liberalism and the Austrian School , Ralph Raico gives Eugen Richter (1830-1906), the neglected hero of authentic German liberalism, his due. As I read the chapter, I kept feeling as if I was reading about Ron Paul. Just as Ron Paul has been “Dr. No” in Congress, Richter was a veritable “ Herr Nein ” (or
In the first chapter of Classical Liberalism and the Austrian School , Ralph Raico considers the connection between Austrian economics and laissez-faire. For the most part, the early Austrian economists Menger and Bohm-Bawerk, stuck to pure theory, and did not venture much into advocacy. Just how liberal they were is a fascinating question that
A message on behalf of Professor Gerard Casey: “Would the person who emailed Gerard Casey in early March concerning political options for libertarians and who didn’t receive a reply, please resend his original message. The original message was inadvertently
What is “ The Secret To Germany’s Low Youth Unemployment “? Apprenticeship programs, says NPR. Absolutely no mention of the fact that Germany has no statutory minimum wage as of yet (although Merkel wants
Join Walter Block on Friday, May 4 at 7pm Eastern for a private webinar on Free Market Environmentalism . Dr. Block writes: All too often free enterprise is blamed for environmental problems. I will demonstrate that the real problem is statist takeovers of private enterprise and violation of private property rights. Examples to be discussed: air
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