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Mises Daily
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Jayant Bhandari
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Recently , in India, a woman committed sati (voluntarily dying, by burning on her husband’s funeral pyre). The villagers want to build a temple to commemorate the event. The state arrested some people. And it is trying to stop construction of the temple. It will fail. Also, two people observed santhara (voluntarily dying, by fasting) in full view
Mises Review
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David Gordon
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New Support for Revisionist History Mises Review 12, No. 2 (Summer 2006) THE CRAFT OF INTERNATIONAL HISTORY: A GUIDE TO METHOD Marc Trachtenberg Princeton University Press, 2006, x + 266 pgs. Marc Trachtenberg’s guidebook is intended as a “how-to” book for students of diplomatic history and political science. But much of it is of great value to
Mises Review
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David Gordon
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Mises Review 12, No. 3 (Fall 2006) The Real Meaning of Hayek THE POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY OF FREEDOM: ADAM FERGUSON AND F.A. HAYEK Ronald Hamowy Edward Elgar, 2005, xviii + 265 pgs. Ronald Hamowy combines extraordinary critical powers with painstaking historical research. His skills are much in evidence in this collection of his essays, but I have an
Mises Review
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David Gordon
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Mises Review 12, No. 3 (Fall 2006) They Loved Each Other’s Politics THREE NEW DEALS: REFLECTIONS ON ROOSEVELT’S AMERICA, MUSSOLINI’S ITALY, AND HITLER’S GERMANY Wolfgang Schivelbusch Metropolitan Books, 2006, 242 pgs. Critics of Roosevelt’s New Deal often liken it to fascism. Roosevelt’s numerous defenders dismiss this charge as reactionary
Free Market
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Ludwig von Mises
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The Free Market 24, no. 3 (March 2006) This essay is excerpted from Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow , newly published by the Mises Institute. The constitutional system that began at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century has disappointed mankind. Most people—also most authors—who have dealt with
Mises Daily
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Ludwig von Mises
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I - Thought and Conduct II - The Social Role of Doctrines III - Experience and Social Doctrines IV - Doctrines and Political Problems V - The Expedience of Doctrines VI - Esoteric Doctrines and Popular Beliefs [This article was excerpted from Chapter 20 of Money, Method, and the Market Process .] I - Thought and Conduct Earlier historians dealt
Mises Daily
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Ludwig von Mises
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[This article is excerpted from Part V of The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality .] In the universe there is never and nowhere stability and immobility. Change and transformation are essential features of life. Each state of affairs is transient; each age is an age of transition. In human life there is never calm and repose. Life is a process, not a
Mises Wire
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D.W. MacKenzie
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In a reply to a recent mises.org weblog posting someone posted a challenge- Would anyone be so kind as to tell me in which countries poverty was eliminated by means of your (Austrian) enlightened theories?...” the author of the original post replied with several good examples, without discussing any specific details of how these countries managed
Mises Wire
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Justin M. Ptak
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Were the barbarians more beneficent than the Romans? A couple of Englishmen are trying to convince you that this is so. They state that the only uniquely Roman feature of the Empire was its professional army (hardly an advance). “...The fact that we still think of the Celts, the Huns, the Vandals, the Goths and so on as “barbarians” means that we