We all encounter more than our share of foolish blog posts. Most of the time you simply have to let them be. You could spend the rest of your life correcting drones and automatons who will never have an original or unconventional thought no matter how much you prod them. Their seventh-grade teacher, who was also the track coach, taught them what
[This article was first published in the Fall 2009 issue of The Intercollegiate Review .] It is a cliché that if we do not study the past we are condemned to repeat it. Almost equally certain, however, is that if there are lessons to be learned from an historical episode, the political class will draw all the wrong ones — and often deliberately
Good news: this Sunday, Meltdown , my book that gives an Austrian perspective on the economic crisis, enters its second week on the New York Times bestseller list , up to #11. (The list is for March 8; it was published online on February 27.) I have an article up today at ISI’s web journal First Principles called “Banana Republic, U.S.A.” that
Here’s my most in-depth discussion of the Depression of 1920, which reversed itself in the face of dramatic government budget cuts and a Federal Reserve that did not use its money creation powers. The article is a more formal version of my presentation at the Mises Circle in Colorado Springs back in
Finally an attack on Meltdown . It comes from leftist Matthew Yglesias, whose knowledge of business cycle theory I leave you, dear readers, to judge for yourselves. The Austrian theory of the business cycle has been “superseded,” our expert tells us. Yes, because the mainstream view of capital -- a gigantic, synchronous blob we can represent in a
Todos encontramos más posts de blogs tontos de los habituales. La mayoría de las veces basta con dejarlos estar. Podrías dedicar el resto de tu vida corrigiendo a zánganos y autómatas que nunca tendrán una idea original o no convencional por mucho que les provoques. Su profesor de séptimo grado, que era asimismo entrenador de atletismo, les enseñó
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