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Seeking Web-Development Person to get in early on a new concept in News on the Web.

JamezHenry — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:23:01 GMT

Seeking Web-Development Person to get in early on a new concept in News on the Web.

A news site is coming that brings together the best news out there with a particular attention to liberty. We are seeking web-development-competent people who are ready to assist in building a new site to bring the word of liberty to a growing audience.

Contact James Henry at james@rulesofcivility.com

Teaching Austrian Economics at the University of Iowa

Patrick Barron — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:49:38 GMT

I will be teaching a course in Austrian economics at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, for the spring semester, which starts on January 19th. I taught a similar course last spring and it was very well received. This one will be slightly different--we'll read different books--but there will be no prerequisite of having to have taken the course a year ago. I worked with the administration so that students who took my course last spring can take this one and still get a full three semester hours of credit. I plan to use Rothbard's The Mystery of Banking and Reisman's Capitalism as textbooks. I am still outlining the course curriculum, so if anyone has some suggestions, please pass them along to me at PatrickBarron@msn.com.

Request for feedback on my new site, Murray's List

JustAHappyKid — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:47:05 GMT

Hi all.

I've been slowly working, over the past few months, on what I like to call a "Craig's List for sound money". I think I am finally ready to tell the world about it, though I know many important features are still missing; I need some real users to keep me motivated.

I plan to soon reach out to all of the libertarian/alt-currency websites and et al. that I know of, but before I get too much traffic, I want to make sure the basics are in place and functioning properly. So, I'd like to ask the members of the Mises Community, here, to help me out.

Here's a link to the site: http://www.murrayslist.org/

Please consider posting any things you were looking to sell and any services you might care to offer. I would love to hear what you think, and I'd especially like to know if you come across any bugs or issues you consider to be show-stoppers. I realize there are many obvious features missing -- such as photo uploading, interfaces for easily converting between USD and gold/silver prices, and better site navigation -- but I hope that it is at least usable at a bare-minimum level already.

Also, if you have any suggestions for promoting the site, that'd be great as well. I have already begun creating a list of liberty-oriented websites, mailing lists, and the like, but I'm sure there are hundreds I haven't considered.

Business dean position at Mount Vernon Nazarene University

TimothyTerrell — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:20:48 GMT

My friend Sacha Walicord at Mount Vernon Nazarene University in Ohio told me today that they are searching for a dean in their college of business. Apparently they have had a very hard time getting qualified applicants. I don't know anything about the school, but Dr. Walicord is an Austrian economist in both senses of the word. I thought it would help him out to post this to the Mises forum. Respond to him, please, at sacha.walicord@mvnu.edu for details.

Two upcoming seminars at Auburn U.

Bob Lawson — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:21:26 GMT

Auburn University's Center for International Finance and Global Competitiveness has two seminars coming up. Auburn alumnus, and current economics professor at College of Charleston, Pete Calcagno will be here this Friday to give his paper "Olympic Winners and Losers: The Role of Economic Freedom." Pete was supported by the Mises Institute during his graduate school days.

On Thursday of next week, the Atlanta Fed's Gerald Dwyer will be here to give his paper on "The Financial Crisis of 2008." Despite working for the evil Fed, Jerry is a good free-market economist.

Details about times and places can be found below.

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Olympic Winners and Losers: The Role of Economic Freedom
Peter T. Calcagno, College of Charleston
Friday, November 6, 3:00-4:00, Lowder 33

The Financial Crisis of 2008
Gerald P. Dwyer
Director, Center for Financial Innovation and Stability
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Thursday, November 12, 3:30-4:30, Lowder 112

Roger Garrison and Bob Higgs Speaking at Rhodes College

pbarnett — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:01:40 GMT

November 5, 7:00 p.m., Barret 051, Roger Garrison "Business Cycles and the Great Depression"

November 10, 7:00 p.m. , Blount Auditorium, Robert Higgs "Depression, War, and Cold War"

free and open to public

Rhodes College, 2000 North Parkway, Memphis TN, 901-843-3863, Professor Art Carden cardena@rhodes.edu

Walter Block's 2009 World Tour is coming to the NYC area on 10/1, 10/2 and 10/5. Be there or be square.

Alessandrorinaldo — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:42:34 GMT

There should be tee shirts. Walter Block’s upcoming speeches:

Sept 12 Bellevue, WA, Mises Institute, Mises Circle, “Ticka, ticka, ticka, you need good timin’” http://mises.org/events/121

Sept 22 Baton Rouge, LA. Louisiana State University, Paul M. Hebert Law Center, near the intersection of Highland & Dalrymple, room 110, from 12:40 to 1:40pm; topic: free market environmentalism, contact: Andre Collins Gaudin Jr, 504 669-2125, andre.gaudin.jr@gmail.com,

Oct 1 Newark, N.J., Rutgers Newark Law School, 123 Washington Street, room 125, Baker Trial Courtroom; 8-10pm, topic: socialized medicine; contact: Steve Link, sjlink@pegasus.rutgers.edu, 201-788-5108

Oct 2 Newark, N.J., Seton Hall University, 1109 Raymond Blvd; small moot court room on the first floor, 1pm– 3pm; topic: socialized medicine; contact: Alessandro Di Stefano – alessandrorinaldodistefano@gmail.com, 617-894-5436.

(yes, that's me and I'm pushing my own school's event - it's going to be totally, completely free and refreshments will follow.)

Oct 5 New York, N.Y., Cardozo Law School, noon-1:30pm; 55 Fifth Avenue (corner of 5th Ave & 12th St), room 206; topic: socialized medicine; contact: John Safarli, jsafarli@gmail.com; 206-909-9963

Oct 6 Baton Rouge, LA., Southern University, Room 129 in AA Lenoir Hall at noon – 2pm. Contact: Cindy Manuel, Barry Manuel, barrymanuel@bellsouth.net, Ross LeBlanc, leblarm@yahoo.com, 504-236-2451; topic: medical socialism

Oct 21-24. Salamanca, Spain. Mises Supporters Conference. http://mises.org/events/118

Oct 31. Grove City College, Grove City, PA. Mises Lecture Austrian Student Scholars’ Conference “My 41 years as an Austrian economist;” http://www2.gcc.edu/dept/econ/ASSC/

Nov 4. Williamsburg VA 23188; William & Mary Law School, 613 South Henry Street, 1-3pm; room, tba; contact: Amanda DeVuono, abdevuono@wm.edu, 571 970-7725, topic: “Is the market racist? Sexist? No.”

Nov 4. Richmond, VA 23173; University of Richmond School of Law, Moot Court Room, 28 Westhampton Way, Contact: Margaret Harker, margaret.harker@richmond.edu, 240 481-1872, 4pm; Topic: welfare state? Topic: Medical socialism? Commentator: Dr. Karen Swisher Professor of Health Law with the Department of Health Administration at VCU/MCV where she teaches in the MHA (Masters in Health Administration) Program.

Nov 5 Charlottesville, VA 22903; UVA School of Law, 580 Massie Rd, room #: tba;. Contact: Alex Cox, cox.alexander@gmail.com, 517 614 0473; noon; Topic: drug legalization

Nov 5. Lexington, Virginia 24450; Washington and Lee University Law School, 5:15pm, Sydney Lewis Hall. AKA “The Law School,” room A or B; Topic: The Market is NOT Sexist nor Racist: the Black-White, the Male-Female Wage Gap and the Glass Ceiling.

Ambitious Research Effort - Constitutive and Instrumental Means

Wade — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:30:58 GMT

I recently embarked on an ambitious research effort with Adam Knott to find who and in what work that the original distinction between "constitutive" and "instrumental" means was made.

I'm happy to announce that in just 16 hours I was able to uncover that it was Leonard Hugh Graham Greenwood who made the distinction in the introduction to his translation of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book VI, the 1909 version.

The entire book can be downloaded here. If you are just interested in reading the excerpt where Greenwood makes the distinction, then you can just download "Scans 1-100" where the excerpt begins in the bottom paragraph of page 46 or pdf page 55. I have also posted a recap of the research journey at http://twitter.com/praxeology so you can experience the excitement as me and Adam did in the search and successful uncovering of the original source.

In addition, Adam has posted "an analysis of the concept as it was originally introduced by Greenwood in 1909". The first post is here.

Launching private social network

xwowsersx — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:42:06 GMT

Anyone that is interested in economics and wants to be part of an online social discussion, email me and I will send you an invite. We're looking to create a private group of intelligent and clear thinkers.

Hey all I am looking for Josh Duryea

dwimmerlaik — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 06:17:21 GMT

My name is Ray Allen and I worked with Josh at Tower Records back in the '90's. Josh turned me on to Rothbard, Rand etc and turned my numbness into brilliance.

Books For Sale

Black Market — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 22:34:11 GMT

The following books for sale are all brand new copies. Those indicated with * are used copies in good condition. Inquiry about more details if interested.

A Foreign Policy of Freedom by Ron Paul for $11.95
ISBN: 0912453001

Age of Inflation by Hans F. Sennholz for $8.95
ISBN: 088279129X

A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II by Murray N. Rothbard $18.95
ISBN: 0945466331

America's Great Depression by Murray N. Rothbard $21.95
ISBN: 0945466056

An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought (2 Vols.) by Murray N. Rothbard $44.95
ISBN: 094546648X

*Defending The Undefendable by Walter Block $10.95
ISBN: 1933550171

Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow by Ludwig von Mises $7.95
ISBN: 1933550015

Economics For Real People by Gene Callahan $12.95
ISBN: 0945466412

*Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature and Other Essays by Murray N. Rothbard $10.95
ISBN: 0945466234

Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles by Jesús Huerta de Soto (1st Edition) $34.95
ISBN: 0945466390

Principles of Economics by Carl Menger for $19.95
ISBN: B001E4S756

The Bastiat Collection by Frederic Bastiat $41.95
ISBN: 1933550074

The Case Against The Fed by Murray N. Rothbard $6.95
ISBN: 094546617X

The Causes of the Economic Crisis by Ludwig von Mises $15.95
ISBN: 1933550031

The Ethics of Liberty by Murray N. Rothbard $17.95
ISBN: 0814775594

The Gold Standard: Persepectives in the Austrian School $7.88
ISBN: 0945466110

The Panic of 1819: Reactions and Policies by Murray N. Rothbard $16.95
ISBN: 1933550082

The Theory of Education in the United States by Albert Jay Nock $16.95
ISBN: B001D0JBKG

Understanding the Dollar Crisis by Percy L. Greaves, Jr $19.95
ISBN: B001D0MR3E

If you'd like to purchase a book(s), please send me a message with what book(s) you'd like to purchase and I'll contact you with the final total for you to send.

Buyers within the U.S. will have their package shipped via FedEx.
Buyers outside the U.S. will have their package shipped USPS International Priority.

PayPal, United States Postal Service Money Orders, and Cash are accepted.

Thanks for reading.

Mises University 2009

pbarnett — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:42:55 GMT

This is the place for airport ride-sharing and other info exchange for students and faculty attending MU 09.

Calling Christian libertarian bloggers

Greg — Fri, 01 May 2009 13:41:05 GMT

At my blog, The Holy Cause, I have two things going on which might interest Christian libertarian bloggers.

A Christian libertarian Blog Carnival - if you are interested, take a look, and feel free to submit articles!
I am trying to compile a comprehensive Christian libertarian Blog list. If you have (or know of) a blog which should be on that list, feel free to suggest it.

The purpose of both efforts is to promote like-minded blogs.

Yours,

Greg

Complete Free Audiobook: "An Introduction to Austrian Economics" by Thomas C. Taylor

G. Stolyarov II — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:33:06 GMT

Greetings.

With the permission of the Mises Institute, I have recorded and made available an audiobook version of Thomas C. Taylor's "An Introduction to Austrian Economics" which you can access by following the hyperlink in this paragraph. Each section is available as a separate downloadable mp3 file.

I hope that you enjoy these recordings and that I might have the opportunity to create more audiobooks of Austrian essays and treatises in the future.

Sincerely,

Gennady Stolyarov II

Austrian Scholars Conference 2009

John Delano — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 23:57:23 GMT

Is anybody on this board going? I want to go, but am looking for some ways to save some money, like riding with someone and sharing other expenses. I am in the Chicago area.

Signal to noise ratio in threads

Knight_of_BAAWA — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 03:02:34 GMT

I (and others) have seen several threads degenerate into the same personality clashes over and over. Repeatedly. Ad nauseum.

That's going to end. No more low-key wars. No more pissing matches among the same people all the time about the same things. At the first sign of it, the thread gets locked. Period.

This is a board for the Mises Institute, remember? Let's not have /b/ measuring contests, ok? Disagreeing with someone is fine. A well-written sarcastic response is fine. The same people dredging up the same crap in every thread? That's not fine. It ends now. Let's raise the signal quality here.

Free book! Just write me

jtucker — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 03:44:04 GMT

I'm live blogging this book on intellectual property, Boldrine and Levine, and it occurs to me that this is a great exercise. It takes a lot of discipline but it is great training and a wonderful service.I'm learning more by live blogging it than merely reading it through.

Here is my proposal. If you plan to live blog any book in the Mises store, from top to bottom, on this forum or on your own blog or somewhere else, meaning write on each chapter, summary and critique and commentary, we will send it to you for free.

Any book. Just write me a note at tucker@mises.com and we will send it to you. But you have to live up to your promise.

Does that sound like a deal?

Ideas for Mises.org wiki

HeroicLife — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 11:20:03 GMT

I've created the Ideas for Mises.org wiki to solicit ideas and coordinate volunteer efforts to improve Mises.org

For more focused discussion of decentralization

Donny with an A — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 04:57:15 GMT

Hi everyone! So I've been stewing on this idea for a while: it would be really cool to embark on an organized, focused examination of the frontiers of decentralization. I discussed this here a while ago in another thread, and also on my blog, and I'm trying to figure out how to move the project forward (ideally without time-intensive effort or financial input). I've been tossing around a couple ideas in my head, and I wanted to put one of them out there to see if people are interested in participating.

I set up a separate forum which is more tightly categorized to promote discussions on more specific issues than are sometimes discussed here. An important part of this would be to try to foster an environment in which issues would be explored in relative isolation from each other, so that we could move away from the kinds of free-wheeling general discussions that sometimes characterize this forum (though there are clearly areas on the forum where more general conversations could take place). Also, the forum would have no explicit affiliation, so it could be legitimately marketed to those outside the libertarian or anarcho-capitalist communities. If you guys are interested, register an account and get started!

Anti-crisis inaction plan

Vadim Novikov — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:09:02 GMT

Here is my free-market presentation for Slideshare's Crisic contest:

http://www.slideshare.net/vnovikov/anticrisis-inaction-plan-presentation

If you like it and have an Slideshare account please support it by voting.

Wikinews.org

geo8rge — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:39:47 GMT

Wikinews.org is an open source news experiment. It has all kinds of news from economics to 'true crime' tabloid type stuff. Y'all at Mises might consider editing the articles with a sentence or two as mises.org has lots of material to link to (provide the needed references). In particular there are some bank crises pages you might help edit.

That's my soap box. But I really think wikinews could challenge the 'neutral' 'unbiased' news websites.

Deleting inactive groups, blogs

HeroicLife — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:55:15 GMT

The groups feature is not working as well as I had hoped. There are too many groups without a clear purpose and with little activity.

I've decided to delete inactive groups and posibly require approval of new groups.

I will be doing the same for blogs - in this case, that has more to do with having a limited number of blog licenses.

"Inactive" for now means either having no content at all, or a single post/thread made a while ago.

New Audiobook: "The Austrian Theory of the Trade Cycle," compiled by Richard M. Ebeling

G. Stolyarov II — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:41:55 GMT

Greetings.

A new free audiobook is available in The Rational Argumentator's Audio Section:

http://progressofliberty.today.com/tra-audio/

The Austrian Theory of the Trade Cycle, compiled by Richard M. Ebeling; Read by G. Stolyarov II

This book contains six essays by Roger W. Garrison, Ludwig von Mises, Gottfried Haberler, Murray Rothbard, and Friedrich Hayek.

I hope that you will enjoy it.

Free audiobook - 'Practical Anarchy'

FreedomainRadio — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:44:12 GMT

Hey y'all, my latest free book 'Practical Anarchy' is out, if you're interested, at http://www.freedomainradio.com/free/#PA

I created a short video intro, so you can see if it's to your taste...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVII-LgFVqo

The high-res version is here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVII-LgFVqo&fmt=18

Best wishes!

Stef

Calling all Anarchists/Ancaps

jimbojr — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:38:51 GMT

If anyone would like to help a brother out debating the merits of the state and the principles of market anarchism, I could use a hand on the Skeptic's Guide to the Universe forums. I didn't start the thread but have become the one market anarchists against a board full of statist skeptics. It started out as someone trying to talk about FDR and Stefan Molyneux but that didn't go very far. I am trying to keep the conversation civil and fruitful and would just like to not be the only one answering 50 posts at a time. I would appreciate it but if you do come over keep it civil as I want to propogate these ideas, not give people a reason to close their mind. Thanks in advance to anyone who wants to join!

http://skepchick.org/skepticsguide/index.php/topic,12731.435.html