Benedict XVI: A Life By Peter Seewald Volume 1: Youth in Nazi Germany to the Second Vatican Council 1927–1965 Published in English by Bloomsbury Continuum, London, 2020 Translated by Dinah Livingstone Peter Seewald has recently published an extensive biography of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, and the work is a masterpiece which, once begun, cannot
[This article appears online for the first time and is reprinted from The Alternative: An American Spectator (February 1975), where it appeared under the title “Ludwig von Mises.”] It is said that a number of years ago, when Bill Buckley was at the beginning of his career of college-speaking, he once wrote two names on the blackboard and thereby
[ Originally printed in the journal Procesos de Mercado: Revista Europea de Economía Política 14, no. 2 (Autumn 2017). ] 1. Personal Life and Career 1.1 Early Life Prof. Jesús Huerta de Soto Ballester is one of the leading Austrian School economists in the contemporary era. On December 23, 1956, Huerta de Soto was born in a devout Catholic and
This is a biography of Ralph Raico written as part of a Masters Thesis by one of his students. As Professor Hunt Tooley acknowledges, today we are seeing a rebirth of interest in the Austrian school and classical liberalism, with no small part played by Ralph Raico. In his easily accessible books, essays, seminars, and lectures, Raico is
It would be difficult to exaggerate Professor Murray N. Rothbard’s influence on the movement for freedom and free markets. He is the living giant of Austrian economics, and he has led the now-formidable movement ever since the death of his great teacher, Ludwig von Mises, in 1971. We are all indebted to him for the living link he has provided to
Beyond some rudimentary facts, very little is available in English about the life of J.B. Say. He was born in Lyons, France, to middle-class Huguenot parents, and spent most of his early years in Geneva and London. As a young man, he returned to France in the employ of a life insurance company, and soon became an influential member of a group of
“On the free market, everyone earns according to his productive value in satisfying consumer desires. Under statist distribution, everyone earns in proportion to the amount he can plunder from the producers.” Murray N. Rothbard (1926-1995) was just one man with a typewriter, but he inspired a world-wide renewal in the scholarship of liberty.
The art of economics consists of looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups. If you want to know where American supporters of free markets learned economics, take a look at Economics in One Lesson by Henry
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.