The title of this talk, as some of you will know, is taken from a recent book by the heroic Russian dissident intellectual, Andrei Amalrik, Will the Soviet Union Survive to 1984 ? What is implied is not that things will suddenly go kaput in 1984 — that would be too much of a coincidence — but that, in terms of the present discussion, for the next
[Condensed from The Story of Research by E.J. duPont deNemours & Company, and the address of the Company’s President, Crawford H. Greenewalt, May 10, 1951.] Women were not freed from their 18th century servitude by feminist agitation, but the invention of the sewing machine, the washing machine, the refrigerator, and the dish washer, together
The question posed by the title to this lecture raises a number of deep problems of economic science. The question seems simple, yet in these few words — measurement, growth, and welfare — culminate the problems of large areas with which economists have been concerned for centuries. How nice it would be then if one could report that now we have
The libertarian movement has been chided by William F. Buckley, Jr., for failing to use its “strategic intelligence” in facing the major problems of our time. We have, indeed, been too often prone to “pursue our busy little seminars on whether or not to demunicipalize the garbage collectors” (as Buckley has contemptuously written), while ignoring
Central banks have embarked on a transition from relative secrecy to relative transparency over the last two decades. This has led researchers to investigate the ramifications of transparency on important economic outcomes. By and large, the results reported have been favorable, favorable with qualifications, or ambiguous. This paper examines the
[ The Standard , Abril de 1963, pp. 2-5; 15-16] El movimiento libertario ha sido reprendido por William F. Buckley, Jr., por no utilizar su “inteligencia estratégica” al enfrentarse a los grandes problemas de nuestro tiempo. Realmente hemos tendido demasiado a “dedicar nuestros atareados pequeños seminarios a si hay que desmunicipalizar o no la
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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.