He is pretty old in 1969 but it is wonderful to hear his voice and he still seems sharp as a tack. Thank you to Bettina Bien Greaves for this rare tape. Listen .
Human Cooperation A Critique of the Holistic and Metaphysical View of Society Praxeology and Liberalism Liberalism and Religion The Division of Labor The Ricardian Law of Association Current Errors Concerning the Law of Association 5. The Effects of the Division of Labor The Individual Within Society The Fable of the Mystic Communion The Great
I came across this rave review in a letter dated July 18, 1959 from Murray Rothbard to the Volker Fund: In a forthcoming review of Henry Hazlitt’s The Failure of the ‘New Economics’ in National Review , I write that this is the best book on economics to be published since Mises’s Human Action , ten years ago. I do not think this an exaggeration.
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The Italian translation of my book The Church and the Market has just been published. It features an excellent introduction (some 36 pages long!) by the great Carlo Lottieri . The Polish translation is here , and a Spanish translation is completed and awaiting publication. The book’s thesis is discussed in my Lou Church Memorial Lecture from
Larry Elliott in the Guardian writes that Every parent with a stroppy teenager knows the feeling. After relentless pressure, mum or dad gives in to demands that they drop the oppressive rules that govern the home and, with reluctance, allow their progeny to do their own thing. The last words the teenager hears as they slam the door and head off
I can’t say enough good things about the film version of “ Horton Hears a Who! “ now in theaters. I’ve generally tended to avoid these film adaptations, which stray too far from the original book and introduce strange twists, usually something designed to preach left-liberal ideology, that just end up being a bother and a distraction. None of this
So I tried it again, an article on economics that attempts to reach an audience disinclined to read about economics. It begins: “The following will explain the most important idea in the history of social analysis. The notion (actually, it’s a description of reality that is all around us but rarely noticed) has been around for many centuries. It
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