Why the Terrible Destruction of the Civil War?
It “was not inevitable,” writes Goldfield. Rather, it was “America’s greatest failure.”
Other Schools of Thought
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Mises’s Gift of Human Action
Human Action is not just about epistemology, economic history, and philosophy.
The American Prison State
The United States incarcerates more people than any country in the world today and throughout history. The financial costs are tremendous and rising. It is uncreative, abusive, socialistic, and robs our society and economy of vast human and material resources. It is also un-American.
“Socially Conscious” Literature
They do not comprehend that capitalism, in engendering big-scale production for mass consumption, is essentially a system of wiping out penury as much as possible.
Keynes and the Pyramids
Keynes loved the pyramids. The attempt to rehabilitate the reputation of the pyramid project is part of a larger cultural effort to prop up the respectability of government in general and the nation-state in particular.
The Plight of the MBA Generation
They did what they were supposed to do. Now, they have few job options at all.
Looking Hard at Pictures of the Socialistic Future
The tragedies of 20th-century socialism are made more horrible by the fact that some people understood, predicted, and warned.
Six Fundamental Errors of the Current Orthodoxy
What they don't understand: aggregation, relative prices, interest rates, capital structure, money pumping, and regime uncertainty.
Inflation Inferno I
Governments and bankers hate gold because its supply cannot be inflated on command.
