In “How I Stole a Great Idea From Lew Rockwell,” Gary North writes: The Mises Institute in 1996 produced a superb 45-minute movie on the Federal Reserve System. It is the best introduction to what the FED really is and how it operates that I have ever seen. Yet I never saw the movie on a movie screen or a TV screen. I didn’t even know it existed.
Libertarians have always had a sense of history. Mainly because they puzzle over the USA of the 19th Century and its transformation into the USA of 2007. Many explanations are offered. A Pulitzer prize winner, Robert A. Caro, has made a unique contribution to this political conundrum in a multi-volume biography of Lyndon Johnson. What a book! the
From BigWhiteGuy.com (”Adventures of a BigWhiteGuy living in Hong Kong”), comes an explanation of Chinese “Hell Notes” : The Chinese believe that when someone dies, his spirit goes to the afterlife, where it lives on, doing much the same things it did in life. Surviving relatives want to send gifts to make the afterlife as comfortable as possible.
Apropos Rothbard on animal “rights,” this is from today’s edition of Garrison Keillor’s radio program, The Writer’s Almanac : It’s the birthday of one of the most influential and controversial philosophers of the 20th century, Peter Singer , born in Melbourne, Australia (1946). His book Animal Liberation (1975), which is generally credited
Ever since the first banner ad found its way online, there has been a virtual arms race between ad placement technology and ad blocking. The latest chapter in this ongoing saga revolves around Adblock Plus , an extension that can be integrated into the Firefox browser that essentially blocks all ads. And in short, due to the fact that tools like
Over the past decade, circulation of the major national newspapers has steadily declined . This is due in large part to various, typically free technologies comprising the Internet (newsgroups, RSS feeds, web-only content, email newsletters, forums). Yet while disruptive technologies such as the automobile replaced the horse buggy, the Columbia
In September 1946, The Foundation for Economic Education ( FEE ) published 500,000 copies of a pamphlet arguing against continuation of wartime rent-control laws. This pamphlet — called “Roofs or Ceilings,” and written by two young Chicago economists named Milton Friedman and George Stigler — was 20-year-old Murray Rothbard ‘s introduction to FEE.
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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.