Here is a first go at a new podcast: “Mises Weekly”, a two-hour discussion of all the previous week’s Mises Daily Articles between myself and Abhi Mallick. Sorry, audio quality on this one is not too good. But let us know if this is something we should pursue
This is brilliantly done. Topic for discussion: what is Papola (who, it is clear now, is a creative genius) trying to say by structuring the outcome of the fight the way he does? The way Hayek’s “Who plans for whom?” question is worked in as a lyric is superb. The question is the topic of an entire chapter in Road to Serfdom , which is the subject
Brendan O’Neill writes: What we have on the streets of London and elsewhere are welfare-state mobs. The youth who are ‘rising up’ – actually they are simply shattering their own communities – represent a generation that has been more suckled by the state than any generation before it. They live in those urban territories where the sharp-elbowed
The holiday season has just passed; so, many readers of Mises.org may have recently butted heads with statist family members. One might think that, in our endeavors to change minds, our own family members and friends should be the easiest conquests. Do we not have frequent opportunities for lengthy conversations with them? Does not their respect
A 3.5 hour discussion between myself and Abhi Mallick about last week’s Mises Dailies. Click to stream, right click to download. Mises Weekly, Episode 2 The following articles are discussed in this episode: The Rationale for Total Privatization Mar 14 2011 by Hans-Hermann Hoppe The End of Sound Money and the Triumph of Crony Capitalism Mar 14 2011
All readings are free and online. Sign up to have Tom DiLorenzo personally guide you through this fascinating literature! Week 1: Hayekian vs. Neoclassical Theories of Competition F.A. Hayek, “The Meaning of Competition,” in his book, Individualism and Economic Order . F.A. Hayek, “Competition as a Discovery Procedure” Week 2: Rothbard and Kirzner
Here is some feedback provided by students of Stephan Kinsella’s online Mises Academy course, “Rethinking IP” (which ended last month): “The class (everything) was perfect. Content wasn’t too deep (nor too shallow) – the reviewed material was just brilliant and the “tuning” was great for someone like myself (engineering background – no profound
The works of four of Mises’ favorite novelists are available in ePub and other formats on the wonderful resource eBooks@Adelaide. Balzac Flaubert Maupassant Proust Mises said of these authors, “How poor our lives would be if we had to miss the work of these
The angrier-than-thou “moral scrupulosity” among some libertarians that Jeffrey Tucker talks about in his excellent recent post seems to be part of something a bit broader. As a commenter on Jonathan Catalan’s blog post seconding Jeffrey’s sentiments said, there can be a tendency for libertarians to be “willful grumps”. Another case in point is
I have misgivings about the term. ”Spontaneous” can mean “impulsive” (as in “he spontaneously started dancing”), which is obviously unsuitable. In biology, it means “involuntary”, which also obviously doesn’t apply to human action. I suppose “without external cause” (as in “spontaneous combustion”) fits somewhat, because the direction of market
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