This is a pretty good measure of how far we have come in America in our understanding of freedom from that of the founders: Bill Clinton awarded the “Medal of Freedom” to John Kenneth Galbraith on August 9, 2000, despite the fact that Galbraith has been a stalwart champion of the very opposite idea of freedom from that laid out by those founders.
[The following article appeared in the Investors Business Daily , Wednesday, January 12, 2000] Adam Smith is widely regarded as the father of modern economics. But he wasn’t. The real founder may be someone most people have never heard of. More than 40 years before Adam Smith wrote “The Wealth of Nations,” Richard Cantillon authored the “Essai sur
As a senior in high school, back in 1977, I was introduced to the writings of Ayn Rand. Rand’s work had a huge impact on my intellectual development. That impact was not merely philosophical. In her essays, Rand celebrated the enormous contributions of the Austrian school. Not too long thereafter, I discovered such thinkers as Ludwig von Mises, F.
Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! and What Do You Care What Other People Think? by Richard P. Feynman, as told to Ralph Leighton W. W. Norton & Company, 1985 and 1988. 346 and 248 pgs. Second to deciding which CD or book to take to a desert island, perhaps the most popular mental exercise is to select the single person from all of human history
Not a news event passes when anyone who knew him doesn’t wonder: what would Rothbard say about this? It’s a fun game to play, because Murray provided the outstanding example of how adherence to principles, and strategic application of principles, work themselves out in the real world. Reading or hearing his take on the passing scene was always a
No pasa una noticia en la que alguien que lo conoció no se pregunte: ¿qué diría Rothbard sobre esto? Es un juego divertido, porque Murray proporcionó el ejemplo más destacado de cómo la adhesión a los principios, y la aplicación estratégica de los mismos, funcionan en el mundo real. Leer o escuchar su opinión sobre el panorama actual fue siempre
What is the Mises Institute?
The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard.
Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.