Historian of Decline?
In 1940, Mises watched the rise of the total state and the destruction of Europe, and believed he had been "the historian of decline." But the designation doesn't apply to today's Misesians.
In 1940, Mises watched the rise of the total state and the destruction of Europe, and believed he had been "the historian of decline." But the designation doesn't apply to today's Misesians.
There are two ways to read Mises's great treatise. Most readers will, I fear, find the book too much to attempt to grasp systematically. Not everyone feels like reading a nine-hundred-page book straight through.
Richard Posner, often said to have free-market sympathies, will mediate the Microsoft case. But he can't be trusted to defend property rights, says Walter Block.
Ralph Raico, historian of liberty, is the winner of the annual award, to be presented January 28-29, 2000.
A seminar with J. Guido Hülsmann focuses on price and value theory, and elucidates fundamental differences between two schools of thought. (A report by James Yohe)
The Rothbard Graduate Seminar undertakes an ambitious intellectual adventure.
Top economists and financial journalists gather in Toronto to examine the future of the world economy.
Foss discusses the merits and drawbacks of game theory in economics from the perspective of Austrian economics.