Biographies

In this short biographical entry on Ludwig von Mises, Murray Rothbard recounts a great man's life and work and explains his significance to the world of ideas and the history of his time and ours.

The idea of private property not only agrees with our moral intuitions—it is the sole just solution to the problem of social order.

The fact that I could take exception to some of Mises's teaching does not make me an apostate. It should prove, instead, that the great teacher had produced students with open and critical minds. 

Left-wing intellectuals such as Polanyi are always weeping about the "Coca-Colaization" of the rest of the world, bemoaning the supposedly lost glories of "folk culture" in the undeveloped countries, writes Rothbard.

Newly discovered and translated article by Ludwig von Mises about Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk on the tenth anniversary of his death.

Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 19, no. 2 (Summer 2016) "On the Occasion of the Tenth Anniversary of His Death" [ Translator's Note: A transcript of the German language original under the title “Der Economist Eugen v. Böhm-Bawerk—Zu...

Menger's was an analytical method that began with the smallest empirical phenomena and proceeded logically from there. He called this the "empirical method."

Frédéric Bastiat reminds us of the dangers to all sides of using military force as a means of securing resources or to bring freedom to foreign peoples.

On Keynes's book has been founded a new economic church, completely furnished with all the properties proper to a church, such as a revelation of its own, a rigid doctrine, a symbolic language, a propaganda, a priestcraft, and a demonology.

For a while the postwar ideological climate seemed to be the same as during the war: internationalism, statism, adulation of economic planning and the centralized state, were rampant everywhere.