Here’s my review of Alejandro Chafuen’s stunning book Faith and Liberty: The Economic Thought of the Late Scholastics , a truly original and groundbreaking contribution to the history of economic thought. It partly inspired one of my own books
Here is a Washington Times piece about the Regnery series of books that includes my own Politically Incorrect Guide to American History . No discussion of its Austrian content.
The Mises Circle event this past weekend — The Fed and War Finance — was a wonderful time; the full house at the University Club seemed to agree. Apart from having my toiletries confiscated at the airport (yes, they mean it when they say no liquids or gels), I was glad to visit New York City again, where I lived for five years, and see some of the
You can listen to the panel I appeared on at yesterday’s Cato Institute conference on globalization here (mp3) or view it here . Dr. Rich Brake of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute opens the panel, followed by the talks — first by me, then by Olaf Gersemann. After that, we have a fruitful question-and-answer session. The rest of the panels are
At the Austrian Scholars Conference this weekend we had the good fortune of hearing from Gerard Casey of University College, Dublin, speaking on the long tradition of statelessness in Ireland. A bunch of us wondered how someone so knowledgeable within the Rothbardian tradition could have completely escaped our notice until now. It turns out,
I am left speechless by this New York Times article about an environmentalist couple who have given up even toilet paper in order to “save the planet.” It is a “lifestyle experiment they call No Impact. Its rules are evolving...but to date include eating only food (organically) grown within a 250-mile radius of Manhattan; (mostly) no shopping for
This article from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution quotes me on the subject of war and the economy. I got the impression during our conversation that the author understood the traditional what-is-seen and what-is-not-seen argument I made, yet anyone walking away from this article would probably conclude that war really is a nice if unfortunate
For senior scholars with a little spare time, or younger folks who like slaying fallacies, here are two articles to refute. First, Fareed Zakaria, “ The Savior of Europe .” (He’s referring to Mario Draghi, the new head of the ECB.) This is your classic something-for-nothing article: we can create stability, stave off crises, and restore economic
From National Review Online’s David Frum: What the gold standard really is, fundamentally, is a rule that the nation’s monetary stock should be determined, not by central bankers, but by miners. Why that should be regarded as an improvement by anyone, I cannot understand. Let me add one final note. Even to treat the gold standard as a live option
So says Mike Whitney , a “well respected freelance writer living in Washington state, interested in politics and economics from a libertarian perspective.” After discussing the housing bubble, capital consumption, and much else, Whitney concludes that prosperity will be restored only if we all start using things up: “America’s consumer culture is
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