The drive for liberty, whether from the left or right, is the underlying impulse. This book tells you where it is all headed and why. It might seem easy to write an overview of libertarianism. If so, why do so many attempts fall short? They typically leave out something important, like foreign policy, drugs, or intellectual property, or the
According to this UPI article , Will Smith is gearing up to make Greenbacks , a movie about “a plot to destabilize the world economy though a sophisticated money counterfeiting plot.” Should be amusing to see the movie’s treatment of the economics involved, whether it gets them right or wrong. Given that it’s from the people who brought us Double
Over at the Volokh Conspiracy, libertarian law professor Ilya Somin celebrates The Godfather for all the right reasons. Here also is the Mises Institute’s movie guide on the Godfather movies, and Robert Murphy on whether we should loathe or love the mafia . And of course Murray Rothbard was there first, with his Libertarian Forum review , and this
In case you missed it, yesterday’s New York Times offered a profile of “freegans” -- people who live as much as possible, and relatively well, off other people’s garbage, which they get for free by combing through dumpsters and the like. That’s fine, if it’s how you want to live, but the article gets really good when the freegans offer their
Yes, that’s an actual New York Times editorial headline: Charity Begins in Washington . Ever-increasing private philanthropy is actually a bad thing, says the Times , because it crowds out government spending. Why, those private philanthropists can just give money to whatever they want! Better to tax us and let Washington decide where that money
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.