There are those who have claimed Ludwig von Mises to be the greatest economist of the 20 th century, particularly the first half of the century. Others have claimed that Murray Rothbard is the greatest economist or social scientist of the second half of the 20 th century. I agree with both of these claims. These men were great in many different
The Star Wars saga will conclude on May 19 th when Episode III: Revenge of the Sith opens in movie theaters across the country. We already know a great deal about how the movie will end because writer/producer/director George Lucas must meld Revenge with Episode IV: A New Hope which debuted in 1977. (I’ve also written on Episode I and II ) Thus
The most significant recent development in the study of economic history has been the investigation of the profitability of American slavery made famous in Robert Fogel and Stanley Engerman’s Time on the Cross . Their book not only rewrote the history of antebellum slavery, it ushered in a completely new methodology of economic history: the
This article published in the Monthly Review, March 2005 , meaning this year, not a century ago: “The only solution, as difficult as this may be to contemplate at the present time, is socialism; socialism, that is, as the socialist movement always meant it to be: revolutionary, democratic, egalitatarian, environmental, necessitating mass
The audio for my lecture last week is now online: “ On the Need to Raise Taxes in Alabama. “ (See also the schedule of this series, sign up for a local alert , and see the full media page
The government created the flood —written in 1999 about a different (but similar) flood. “Ignoring science and experience, military engineers consistently marched to the tune of the “levees-only theory,” which in practice requires a huge capital and maintenance expense to build and maintain these ever-higher earth- and stoneworks to hold back the
The Huntsville Times was prompted by Bill Gates’s good comments on education to interview others on the topic, and I was among them. Note the person quoted at the end of the piece, who suggests that the solution to the public school problem is for the government to get the kids earlier (age 3) and teach them longer. The story: Virtual classroom is
In this H-net review , our book Tariffs, Blockades, and Inflation: The Economics of the Civil War , is both attacked (no surprising) and recommended (all to the good): In short, Tariffs, Blockades, and Inflation lacks historical perspective. However, I do not believe this comment will offend the authors. They show repeated contempt for historians
Entrepreneurship: What Does it Really Mean? (Alvin Chan). Here is more on Cantillon: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , and 6 .
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.