Investor’s Business Daily April 16, 1999 Why the Worst Get On Top When ‘’The Road To Serfdom’’ was published, smart people turned up their noses at the groundbreaking free-market book. In Great Britain - where the book’s author, economist F.A. Hayek lived - the Labor Party was in ascendancy. The U.S. was still swooning over the New Deal. Most
A Seminar with J. Guido Hülsmann Held at the Ludwig von Mises Institute June 1999 In the desert of academic economics, those looking for a drink of clarity got even more than they might have hoped for in “Austrian Economics vs. The Mainstream,” an eight-part seminar directed by J. Guido Hülsmann. Professor Hülsmann began with a solidly Misesian
Note: This speech was delivered at the Austrian Scholars Conference, Auburn, Alabama, April 16-17, 1999. Mises on War and Peace in Human Action The essence of Mises’s chapter in Human Action entitled “ The Economics of War “ is in these words: “What has transformed the limited war between royal armies into total war, the clash between peoples,
15 Great Austrian Economists , a new book edited by Professor Randall Holcombe and published by the Mises Institute, has arrived and is ready for shipping. You can order this book here This collection presents ideas from the full sweep of intellectual history, highlighting 15 thinkers who made the greatest contribution to advancing the Austrian
“Austrians and Financial Markets,” sponsored by the Mises Institute, will be held on September 16-17, 1999, in Toronto, Canada. Join James Grant, Gene Epstein, Albert Friedberg, Steve Hanke, and many others, as we consider the present state of the economy and the stock market from an Austrian perspective. Audio from the event is available here
At the end of the century, a great struggle is taking place concerning who should and who should not be considered an intellectual hero. The partisans of government have offered up the usual litany of names, including the most statist (and destructive) of intellectuals and political figures. But this century, more than any other in history, has
INTRODUCTION to the Rothbard Graduate Seminar by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. , President of the Ludwig von Mises Institute. This is the inaugural Rothbard Graduate Seminar. Let me apologize at the outset for the tight quarters. Later this month we are breaking ground for an expansion of our physical plant. If all goes well, by this time next
David Gordon, senior fellow of the Mises Institute, is one of the most prolific and learned social science critics working today. Every quarter, The Mises Review features his analysis of new and important books in economics, history, philosophy, and law. The Summer 1999 issue of The Mises Review , for example, deals with the following titles:
Congratulations to RALPH RAICO , the winner of the Gary G. Schlarbaum Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Cause of Liberty. The Schlarbaum Prize, given annually by the Ludwig von Mises Institute, carries with it an award of an inscribed gold medal and a $10,000 grant. Raico is professor of European history at Buffalo State College and the
Foss discusses the merits and drawbacks of game theory in economics from the perspective of Austrian economics. He begins by arguing that Austrians have neglected game theory at their peril, and then suggest that game theoretic reasoning could be one way of modelling key Austrian insights. However, admittedly some aspects of game theory don’t
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