John Maynard Keynes thought he had pretty well killed gold as a monetary standard back in the 1930s. Governments of the world did their best to help him. It took longer than they thought. Gold in the money survived all the way to Nixon, and it was he who finally drove the stake in once and for all. That was supposed to be the end of it, and the
Murray Rothbard, in his life, was known as Mr. Libertarian. We can make a solid case that the title now belongs to Walter Block, a student of Rothbard’s whose own vita is as thick as a phone book, as diverse as Wikipedia. Whether he is writing on economic theory, ethics, political secession, drugs, roads, education, monetary policy, social theory,
The terrible job market has vexed an entire generation. It shows no hope of improving anytime soon. Young people are shut out. College students are taking refuge in matriculation without end. Thirty-somethings are zoning out in their parents’ basements and attics. Despair for the future has become a theme of American public life. The question we
[This speech was delivered at the offices of the Mises Institute, September 14, 1999, the date on which Human Action was published 50 years ago. The Mises Institute published the pocket paperback edition in November 2010. ] In a 1949 memo circulated within Yale University Press, the publicity department expressed astonishment at the rapid sales of
James E. Foy, former dean of students at Auburn University from 1950 to 1978 and a great friend to the Ludwig von Mises Institute, died at the age of 93 at October 9, 2010. His funeral is today. To be with Dean Foy was to understand something about what made Auburn “the loveliest city on the plains.” He was charming, genuinely optimistic, and had
Introducción : Lew Rockwell es un influyente defensor del movimiento de libre mercado moderno y principal orquestador del resurgimiento de la economía austriaca en Estados Unidos y el extranjero. Rockwell fue el propio editor de Ludwig von Mises en la década de 1960 y luego sirvió como jefe de personal del congresista Ron Paul. Es fundador del
Este discurso se pronunció el 7 de junio de 2010 en el Seminario Rothbard de Grado del Instituto Mises Los homenajes a Murray N. Rothbard a menudo se componen de una lista de sus éxitos. Es porque era tan asombrosamente prolífico que pareciera que hubo muchos investigadores con ese nombre. Tan pronto como lo describimos como economista, recordamos
Esta es la historia de dos economistas que vivieron vidas paralelas y que persiguieron dos objetivos diferentes y contrarios. Uno se dedicó a la libertad y otro al Estado. El primero se mantuvo como profesor durante toda su vida, sin estar en ninguna institución de prestigio y sin ejercer ningún poder. De hecho, utilizó su puesto de profesor
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