Now available on Amazon is the Encyclopedia of Modern Political Thought from Sage Publications. Sage was nice enough to ask me to write the section on conservatism in the encyclopedia. The type of conservatism discussed is primarily the global conservative tradition of Burke, Maistre, Metternich, and Pius IX, with some references to the American
Guest Post: After 100 Years Of Failure, It’s Time To End The Fed! by Ron Paul A week from now, the Federal Reserve System will celebrate the 100th anniversary of its founding. Resulting from secret negotiations between bankers and politicians at Jekyll Island, the Fed’s creation established a banking cartel and a board of government overseers that
In Wednesday’s Mises Daily article, Gary Galles explained how there’s no way to predict the many new ways the marketplace can create, deliver, and sustain amazing new things. This is why freedom is so essential. The impossibility of planning innovation is shown quite well in this 1995 column by a very smart person who predicted the internet would
Bloomberg reports that gold is flowing from some Western vaults to China: “T he Chinese don’t want US dollars anymore, they want gold. “ In 2011, Dan O’Connor wrote on “China’s Hard-Money History: So deeply rooted in the culture were gold and silver that the Chinese people upheld a metallic currency longer than all Western nations, even though
Recently, Peter G. Klein appeared on the “The Wilkow Majority” radio program. In this excerpt, host Anthony Wilkow and Peter Klein discuss government intervention in healthcare and some of the resulting unintended consequences and market distortions.
Dave Howden, editor, has announced the release of the first issue of the new The Journal of Prices & Markets from the Ludwig von Mises Institute of Canada. This journal should be a great new outlet for Austrian influenced economists to complement QJAE and RAE. HT to all who worked so hard bring this new journal to fruition and congratulations to
Everyone loves (or loves to hate) these two articles about Ebenezer Scrooge’s many great economic services to humanity. Butler Shaffer writes in “ The Case for Ebenezer “: As I became older, I decided that Mr. Dickens had given Ebeneezer Scrooge an undeserved reputation for villainy, placing him in such company as Uriah Heep, Iago, Dr. Moriarty,
Overstock.com’s CEO Patrick Byrne explains some reasons why Overstock now accepts Bitcoins: Fortune: Do you own any bitcoins? Patrick Byrne: No. I own gold. Really, how much gold? A lot. Let’s just say enough that if zombies walked the Earth I will have enough gold that me and mine are taken care of. But you’re obviously a bitcoin fan. Why?
Mises Institute President Jeff Deist discusses the the Mises Institute and Austrian Economics on the Korelin Economics Report radio program. Click on Segments 7 and 8 to hear or download Jeff’s segment of the show. (Audio, approximately 20
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