Mr. John Tamny has kindly taken notice of my review of Money by Steve Forbes and Elizabeth Ames. (Tamny’s comments are here .) In my review, I questioned the claim of Forbes and Ames that money is a measure of value. In doing so, Tamny thinks, I disagreed with Mises. Unlike me, Mises did not deny the obvious truth that money is a measure of value.
Today is the 78th birthday of Ralph Raico, the foremost historian of classical liberalism. Among many other works, Ralph is the author of two outstanding collections of essays, Classical Liberalism and the Austrian School and Great Wars and Great Leaders . As the latter title suggests, he is a great exponent of revisionist history. In all of
This article is a transcript of the interview on Mises Weekends. Jeff Deist: This week we’re joined by Mises Institute Senior Fellow Dr. David Gordon, the man who Rothbard claimed knows everything about everything. Our topic is the life and times of the late Dr. Murray Rothbard. David Gordon was both his friend and associate and if you are a
En una publicación reciente, « Machlup and Mises », en el blog Coordination Problem , Peter Boettke ha llamado la atención y resumido un importante trabajo: « The Epistemological Implications of Machlup’s Interpretation of Mises’s Methodology », escrito por Gabriel Zanotti y Nicolás Cachanosky. Según estos autores, Murray Rothbard dio una
J. Michael Oliver nos dice que este notable libro empezó como tesis académica escrita en 1972 y presentada el año siguiente para una licenciatura de grado en la Universidad de Carolina del Sur. Sin embargo el libro es mucho más que una tesis académica: es una aportación importante al pensamiento libertario. La principal contribución de Oliver
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