Articles of Interest

Hans Sennholz (February 3, 1922 - 23 June 2007), professor at Grove City College, was one of a handful of men in intellectual history who were able

Ludwig von Mises (29 Sept. 1881-10 Oct.

Biography of Fritz Machlup (Dec. 15, 1902–Jan. 30, 1983), by Mark Thornton.

“The theory of capital lacks a simple dimension for the measurement of its subject matter.

Gottfried Haberler was one of the first economists to make a case for the productivity of free trade in terms of the modern subjective theory of value.

Claude Frederic Bastiat was a French economist, legislator, and writer who championed private property, free markets, and limited government. Perhaps the main underlying theme of Bastiat's writings was that the free market was inherently a source of "economic harmony" among individuals, as long as government was restricted to the function of protecting the lives, liberties, and property of citizens from theft or aggression. To Bastiat, governmental coercion was only legitimate if it served "to guarantee security of person, liberty, and property rights, to cause justice to reign over all."

Margit and Ludwig von Mises were a magnificent team. Margit was unsurpassed in devotion to Mises the person in life and in perpetuating his memory and his ideas after his death.

The prehistory the Austrian School of economics can be found in the works of the Spanish scholastics written in the "Spanish Golden Century."

Every four years, as the November presidential election draws near, I have the same daydream: that I don’t know or care who the president of

“I champion an economic order ruled by free prices and markets...the only economic order compatible with human freedom.”