The Free Market 15, no. 4 (April 1997) The personal, political, and scholarly papers of Ludwig von Mises have been discovered in a formerly secret archive in Moscow. So have the papers of many of Mises’s colleagues and associates during his years in Vienna, including friends and foes in academia, politics, and business. What does this startling
The Free Market 17, no. 10 (October 1999) This year marks the 250th birthday of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the greatest of all German writers and poets and one of the giants of world literature. In his political outlook, he was also a thorough-going classical liberal, arguing that free trade and free cultural exchange are the keys to authentic
The Free Market 32, no. 8 (August 2014) This article is a selection from “The Ethics of Entrepreneurship and Profit,” a lecture delivered by Prof. Hoppe at the University of Reading, England in June 2014. The capitalist entrepreneur acts with a specific goal in mind: to attain a monetary profit. He saves or borrows saved money, he hires labor,
The Free Market 11, no. 4 (April 1993) It’s true that the U.S. health care system is a mess, but this demonstrates not market but government failure. To cure the problem requires not different or more government regulations and bureaucracies, as self-serving politicians want us to believe, but the elimination of all existing government controls.
The Free Market 13, no. ( 1995) The intellectual achievements of Murray Newton Rothbard (1926-1995)—eminent scholar and friend—are monumental. He is the author of 25 books and thousands of article in scholarly and popular journals. His work covers the entire spectrum of the social sciences: pure economic theory, history, sociology, philosophy,
The Free Market 6, no. 2 (February 1988) Compared with life in Western countries, where the socialist sector is sizable, life under total socialism is miserable. The standard of living is so deplorable that, in 1961, the socialist East German government built a system of walls, barbed wire, electrified fences, minefields, automatic shooting
The Free Market 6, no. 2 (Febrero 1988) Comparada con la vida en los países de Occidente –donde el sector socializado es considerable– la vida en el socialismo total es miserable. El estándar de vida es tan deplorable que, en 1961, el gobierno de la socialista Alemania Oriental construyó un sistema de muros, alambre de púas, cercas electrificadas,
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