In this interview with Jeffrey Tucker, Dr. Mark Thornton, the compiler and general editor of “The Bastiat Collection,” explains Bastiat’s significance, and tells the fascinating story of how this definitive collection came to be. He further explains its significance for the future of liberty. Recorded at the Mises Institute on August 23,
I know it’s not Father’s Day but I can’t help thinking about him anyway. He was really crazy in a wonderful sort of way. Where to start? Oh, let’s talk about money. For years he directed music at our family’s church. He was outstanding. He was a composer too. He once wrote a full-blown cantata about the history of this particular church, complete
The latest chapter of John T. Flynn’s Men of Wealth that has my head spinning concerns someone I probably should have known about, except that late 19th-century Wall Street lore is in short supply these days. But thanks to Flynn, I now know all about Hetty Green (1834–1916), whose weird and creepy life now haunts me to no end. She was the richest
For an earlier generation of American dissidents from the prevailing ideology of left-liberalism, a rite of passage was reading Albert Jay Nock’s Memoirs of a Superfluous Man , which appeared in 1943. William F. Buckley was hardly alone in seeing it as a seminal text crucial to his personal formation. Here it is in one package, an illustration of
Introduction The Life of Garrett The Novels The New Deal Empire Bibliography If Garet Garrett (1878–1954) is known at all today, it is by those who are captivated by the handful of intellectuals who wrote in opposition to the New Deal planning state and the regimentation of national life it brought about. They were a rare breed, but there is much
I just had the pleasure of preparing a chapter from Flynn’s Men of Wealth for publication here. It is on the fortune and life of Basil Zaharoff, the arms merchant who made fantastic amounts of money selling guns to all sides of the world’s war conflicts before, during, and after WWI. Every business attracts to itself men who have the taste,
It might be May Day in Cuba--the day on which Castro gives his traditional 4–5 hour speech, or so says NPR with exuberant expectation—but at the Mises Institute, it is Benjamin Anderson day. He was born on May 1, 1886. He was an outstanding economist who first drew Hazlitt’s attention to the Austrian School with his book The Value of Money . His
It appears that Garet Garrett’s main economic influence in his early education is Simon Newcomb (1835-1909), who is described here is an early marginalist, an advocate of laissez-faire, and an opponent of institutionalism. His book on economics is on google books . A brief look shows him to be a gold standard guy. Anyone else know anything about
Here I finally finished Mises: The Last Knight of Liberalism , by Jorg Guido Hulsmann. Reading the reports on Mises.org, I understand that with any work, there are criticisms to be had. I suppose I must joint he choir in saying that the greatest criticism was that it wasn’t long enough. There are so many questions that appear to my mind. While
Para una generación anterior de disidentes americanos de la ideología predominante del liberalismo de izquierda, un rito de paso era la lectura de Memorias de un hombre superfluo , de Albert Jay Nock, que apareció en 1943. William F. Buckley no fue el único que lo consideró un texto fundamental para su formación personal. Aquí está en un solo
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