Volume 6, No. 2 (Summer 2003) Did Hayek learn nothing from Mises ? Why assume that he retained his positivist views once he began seriously to study economics? Fleetwood might counter that I have begged the question against him. Have I not assumed that Hayek adopted the sum and substance of Mises’s views? The objection has merit, so I
Volume 9, No. 4 (Winter 2006) Thomas Sowell is probably best known for his studies of ethnic relations and economics and for his policy oriented works, aimed at a wide popular audience, e.g., Conquests and Cultures: An International History (1998) and Basic Economics: A Citizen’s Guide to the Economy (2004). His Knowledge and Decisions
Against the State: An Anarcho-Capitalist Manifesto . By Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. Rockwell Communications. 190 pages. Lew Rockwell has set himself a difficult task. He has written Against the State , not for the already convinced libertarian, eager to discuss the latest theoretical refinements, but rather for the concerned citizen who senses that
What did Israel Kirzner think of Murray Rothbard? Robert Wenzel has linked to a video interview of Kirzner that answers this question. Kirzner calls Rothbard “an extraordinarily brilliant person” and says that “genius is perhaps not too extravagant a word to use” about
Leonard Peikoff, much to my surprise, has an excellent podcast on Edward Snowden. He praises Snowden for revealing the vast amount of information the NSA collects about us. The government’s program is in essence totalitarian, and Peikoff aptly draws a parallel with Orwell’s 1984 . To those who say that Snowden gave American secrets to Russia,
By Ron Paul Earlier this month, CIA-operated drones killed as many as 55 people in Yemen in several separate strikes. Although it was claimed that those killed were “militants,” according to press reports at least three civilians were killed and at least five others wounded. That makes at least 92 US drone attacks against Yemen during the Obama
George Reisman speaks on a variety of issues , including economic inequality, income and inheritance taxes, with John O’Donnell on the Power Trading Radio show. George Reisman is economics professor emeritus from Pepperdine University. He received his Ph.D from New York University with Ludwig von Mises as his thesis advisor. He was also a close
The Free Market 32, no. 3 (March 2014) A Libertarian Critique of Intellectual Property by Butler Shaffer Mises Institute, 2014, 62 pgs. Few topics in recent years have aroused as much interest among libertarians as intellectual property. What place, if any, would IP — patents, copyrights, trademarks and the like — have in a libertarian society?
Money: How the Destruction of the Dollar Threatens the Global Economy — and What We Can Do About It , by Steve Forbes and Elizabeth Ames, McGrawHill, 2014 Money is an odd book. Its odd character can be brought out through an analogy. Imagine that someone wrote an eloquent book about price and wage controls. The book showed how attempts to control
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