President Trump’s pardon of Michael Milken would have delighted Murray Rothbard. Milken, who was famous for his “junk-bond” takeovers of various companies, served twenty-two months in prison for federal crimes that involved market trading. Murray Rothbard thought that Milken was a hero. As he explained in an article written in 1989: During the
Today would have been Murray Rothbard’s ninety-fourth birthday. He was an unforgettable friend, whose immense knowledge of many different fields was unsurpassed in my experience. In a lecture on the Austrian theory of the business cycle, he mentioned the common objection that the expansion of bank credit might have no effect if investors
Today is Hans Hoppe’s birthday. He is an outstanding libertarian theorist, in the tradition of Murray Rothbard, and his strikingly original work ranges widely over philosophy, history, and economics. Among his many contributions are a defense of self-ownership and property rights through argumentation ethics and a trenchant criticism of
Today would have been Joey Rothbard’s 91st birthday. She was Murray Rothbard’s “indispensable framework.” She was a scholar in her own right, but she devoted her life to helping Murray. She was a wonderful friend, and I miss her very
In an article published in Italian on April 13 and translated here into English, the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben raises some points that merit careful consideration. He says, “We then accepted without too many problems, solely in the name of a risk that it was not possible to specify, limiting, to an extent that had never happened
Today is Dr. Ron Paul’s eighty-fifth birthday. He has always been a voice of wisdom, from the End the Fed campaign to his fight against the Iraq War to being a voice of sanity in the current covid-19 hysteria. He is a great American and one one of the foremost people ever to serve in Congress. Happy
El colapso del Estado respaldado por los americanos en Afganistán pone de manifiesto la sabiduría del ensayo de Murray Rothbard « The Death of a State », escrito en julio de 1975. Las lecciones que Rothbard extrajo de la caída de Vietnam del Sur se aplican igualmente a la crisis actual. Entre ellas, la importancia de la guerra de guerrillas, la
Hoy es el 80º cumpleaños de Walter Block. El título de su libro más famoso, Defendiendo lo indefendible , es el que mejor refleja su forma de ver el mundo. Toma un principio libertario y deduce sus consecuencias con una coherencia de hierro, utilizando a menudo ejemplos imaginativos. Puedes pensar que está equivocado, pero te resultará más
Radley Balko, un defensor de la libertad más conocido por su libro Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces , ha sido despedido por el Washington Post . Balko escribe: «Después de nueve años, el Washington Post me ha despedido. Esto es decepcionante pero no sorprendente. En los últimos años, la dirección del diario ha
Hoy habría sido el cumpleaños noventa y siete de Murray Rothbard. Fue un amigo inolvidable cuyo inmenso conocimiento de muchos campos diferentes era insuperable, según mi experiencia. En una conferencia sobre la teoría austriaca del ciclo económico, mencionó la objeción común de que la expansión del crédito bancario podría no tener efecto si los
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The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard.
Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.