[This review first appeared in the Freeman .] The Left, the Right, and the State , a collection of 103 essays by Llewellyn Rockwell, looks at the ways both the left and right use the State to pursue their goals. Rockwell, president of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, argues forcefully that our liberty and property are endangered equally by
I am employed as a professor of economics at a small liberal-arts college. Being the senior professor in my department, I have been able to focus my teaching load on courses that I am most interested in. These include microeconomic principles, the history of economic thought, comparative economic systems, and public choice, for which I am
The Birth of American Revisionism and the Rise of Harry Elmer Barnes Charles A. Beard and William Appleman Williams: From Progressivism to the New Left Harry Elmer Barnes and James J. Martin: From Progressivism to Libertarianism James J. Martin: Historian and Pamphleteer The Libertarian Historians and Their Colleagues on the New Left Notes [This
[Editor - this article appeared in print in 1953] Progressive education is not a new idea. Jean Jacques Rousseau experimented with it in the eighteenth century, but his startling succession of illegitimate children proved too much of a handicap to get his notions accepted; in the nineteenth century a Swiss preacher, Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi,
What is Mises University? It’s the premier, educational week-long event at the Ludwig von Mises Institute that provides a systematic introduction to Austrian economics, libertarianism, and classically liberal political theory as a complete integral unit — not to mention forty other intermediate and advanced elective courses to choose from. I am an
The Free Market 27, no. 3 (March 2009) The works of Leonard E. Read, who founded the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) in 1946, are now online at the Mises Institute. It is probably not the complete collected works, but it is all that he collected in book form. These are books that shaped several generations of activists, donors, writers,
The Free Market 27, no. 6 (June 2009) The Summer Fellowship Program has grown by leaps and bounds since its founding by Professor Guido Hülsmann in 2000. This year the program includes eighteen young men and women from the United States, Canada, Germany, Spain, France, Turkey, Denmark, Poland, and the Czech Republic. Their disciplines range
[From Planning for Freedom . Originally published in The Freeman , April 7, 1952.] A few years ago, a House of Representatives Subcommittee on Publicity and Propaganda in the Executive Departments, under the chairmanship of Representative Forest A. Harness, investigated federal propaganda operations. On one occasion the committee had as a
[This article’s original title is “Logical Catallactics Versus Mathematical Catallactics.” It is excerpted from chapter 16 of Human Action . Robert Murphy has written a study guide for this chapter, available in HTML and PDF .] “A very imperfect and superficial metaphor is not a substitute for the services rendered by logical economics.” The
With all of the comparisons between President Obama and FDR, and especially all of the “lessons” we are told about the Great Depression, fans of the free market need a single volume to get up to speed as well as to educate their interventionist friends. I have written such a book in the newly released The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great
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