Benedict XVI: A Life By Peter Seewald Volume 1: Youth in Nazi Germany to the Second Vatican Council 1927–1965 Published in English by Bloomsbury Continuum, London, 2020 Translated by Dinah Livingstone Peter Seewald has recently published an extensive biography of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, and the work is a masterpiece which, once begun, cannot
The prehistory the Austrian School of economics can be found in the works of the Spanish scholastics written in what is known as the “Spanish Golden Century,” which ran from the mid- sixteenth century through the seventeenth century. Who were these Spanish intellectual forerunners of the Austrian School of economics? Most of them were scholastics
Volume 15, No. 4 (Winter 2012) Mises: The Last Knight of Liberalism is much more than a biography of the twentieth century’s great Austrian economist. It is a monumental work which traces Ludwig von Mises’s life and the evolution of his economic thought and places them in the proper historical and cultural context. The book confirms many
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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.