I was a small child when I first heard Salazar, the Portuguese dictator, spoken of. This was in the early 1960s, when I began to accompany my father on road trips he took with our family once or twice a year to Lisbon to visit and monitor the operation of the Portuguese branch office of our family’s life insurance business. I will never forget the
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
Traditionally, Austrian theorists have focused with particular interest on the recurrent cycles of boom and recession that affect our economies and on studying the relationship between these cycles and certain characteristic modifications to the structure of capital-goods stages. Without a doubt, the Austrian theory of economic cycles is one of
Era un niño pequeño cuando oí hablar por primera vez de Salazar, el dictador portugués. Fue a principios de los años sesenta, cuando empecé a acompañar a mi padre en los viajes por carretera que hacía con nuestra familia una o dos veces al año a Lisboa para visitar y supervisar el funcionamiento de la sucursal portuguesa del negocio de seguros de
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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.
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