Greaves, Bettina Bien, “A Man for Many Seasons,” The Wisdom of Henry Hazlitt , ed. Hans Sennholz (Irvington-on-Hudson, NY: Foundation for Economic Education, 1993), chap. 1. Henry Hazlitt, autor, periodista, editor, crítico, economista, ha escrito o editado 18 libros e innumerables artículos, columnas, editoriales y reseñas de libros. Ha ganado
Abstract: This newly translated tribute to Ludwig von Mises was written by Hans Mayer on the occasion of Mises’s 70th birthday in 1951. It was published in the Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie in 1952. In it, Mayer expresses a surprisingly favorable opinion of Mises as an accomplished scholar, despite some misgivings regarding the latter’s policy
Listen to the Audio Mises Wire version of this article. This week we celebrate the life of Murray N. Rothbard, born on the second of March 1926, a Tuesday, in the Bronx. And what a Bronx it was, teeming with brilliant intellectuals, dedicated Communists, and rock-solid middle-class Americans like David and Rae Rothbard. The family would later
Benedict XVI: A Life By Peter Seewald Volume 1: Youth in Nazi Germany to the Second Vatican Council 1927–1965 Published in English by Bloomsbury Continuum, London, 2020 Translated by Dinah Livingstone Peter Seewald has recently published an extensive biography of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, and the work is a masterpiece which, once begun, cannot
The 2021 Nobel Prize in Economics has been awarded to Berkeley’s David Card, MIT’s Josh Angrist, and Stanford’s Guido Imbens for their work on “natural experiments,” a currently fashionable approach to estimating the causal impact of one economic variable on another. Card, of course, became famous in and outside the profession for his 1994 paper
Who hasn’t heard of the Industrial Revolution, the historical turning point that created modern society, for better or worse? Economist Donald Boudreaux has described this as the “hockey stick of human prosperity,” which launched the average person from subsistence to relative prosperity. Boudreaux credits the specialization and trade that
Over two decades before the Spanish Jesuit de Mariana, George Buchanan arrived, for the first time, at a truly individualist theory of natural rights and sovereignty — and therefore a justification for individual acts of tyrannicide, writes Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995). This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Jeff
Machiavelli was reviled throughout Europe during the 16th century and on into the next two centuries. He was considered to be a conscious preacher of evil, a diabolic figure who had unleashed the demons in the world of politics, writes Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995). This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Jeff
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