We Who Dared to Say No to War uncovers some of the forgotten but compelling body of work from the American antiwar tradition speeches, articles, poetry, book excerpts, political cartoons, and more - from people throughout our history who have opposed war. Beginning with the War of 1812, these selections cover every major American war up to the
Rothbard could have been acclaimed for just his works in history, without all his contributions to economics. The Panic of 1819, America’s Great Depression, Conceived In Liberty, History of Economic Thought, and A History of Money and Banking are each structured upon Rothbard’s theory of power and liberty. Rothbard sees the liberty of the
The Constitution spelled out that the federal government is limited to 16 powers. Is it allowed? should be the first question about any proposed legislation. Today there are no recognized limits. The Supreme Court declared in the late 1930s that everything the federal government does will be assumed to be constitutional. The Tenth Amendment has
Recorded during the 2008 Mises University, Jeffrey Tucker interviews leading Austrian Economists on the topic of Henry Hazlitt’s classic book Economics in One Lesson . This is the fourth in a series of twelve interviews with leading Austrian Economists discussing each chapter of Hazlitt’s
Or so we read in the Washington Post . Austrian business cycle theory is studiously avoided, of course, and “animal spirits” are back. We get one paragraph about the Japanese stagnation of the 1990s, but no acknowledgment at all that none of the Keynesian tools accomplished a thing. Have at this one,
So says Mike Whitney , a “well respected freelance writer living in Washington state, interested in politics and economics from a libertarian perspective.” After discussing the housing bubble, capital consumption, and much else, Whitney concludes that prosperity will be restored only if we all start using things up: “America’s consumer culture is
Jacob Weisberg explains how stupid and ideologically blinkered libertarians are for not recognizing the meltdown as a failure of “unregulated markets.” Yes, yes, I know we’ve heard this all before, but it’s almost kind of funny how someone can write a whole article about this and never once — as in not one time — mention central banking. Jake,
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