Here I discuss the following on The GeekDotEdu Youtube channel River Rights, Roads, Sewer pipes, Water Pipes, Gas lines, in a Libertarian Society, Fractional Reserve Banking, Inflation, Austrian Business Cycle, Carl Menger’s view on money and Bitcoin. I also speak about The Libertarian view on the two theoretical forms of Unions and The Right to
Thursday is the 40th Anniversary of the death of Ludwig von Mises. First, let me start out with a bit of braggadocio. I must be one of the few people, still living, who has actually shaken hands with Ludwig von Mises (and never washed his hand afterward; so, if you shake hands with me, you come off a bit smelly, but you can directly channel Mises
Here I debate Monetarist Stephen Kirchner at a Mises event in Australia. The debate was scheduled to be on the business cycle. However we also debated Mises’s views, Rothbard’s views, Milton Friedman’s views, The Federal Reserve and much
I am trying to write a book, or at least a bunch of more articles, applying private property rights to the oceans, lakes, rivers and other bodies of water. The difficulty I’m having is that while I’m pretty much plugged in to the Lockean-Rothbardian vision of private property on the basis of which I attempt to analyze this material, and make the
According to the official White House website, the end goal of schooling is to “help restore middle-class security.” Such a stance is a surprisingly honest one in a political environment built on deceit. The Obama administration makes no attempt to hide the fact that mandatory public schooling is a state tool for manipulating class structure. This
Murray N. Rothbard used to say that it is impossible to convince the economically illiterate with reductios ad absurdum . Why? This is because the very purpose of this type of logical argument is to embarrass our friends on the Left (and the Right too, sad to say, see below) by taking up the premises of their proposals and applying them to cases
What is the Mises Institute?
The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard.
Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.