Other Schools of Thought

Sponsored by the Mises Institute and held in Atlanta, Georgia; 26-27 September 1997.

"When the government runs up a deficit to fund 'stimulus' projects, all that really means is that it is forcing taxpayers to pay for projects that they wouldn't buy with their own money."

Sponsored by the Mises Institute and held in Harvard Square, Massachusetts; April 28-29, 1989.

Sponsored by the Mises Institute and held in Harvard Square, Massachusetts; April 28-29, 1989.

Sponsored by the Mises Institute and held in Harvard Square, Massachusetts; April 28-29, 1989.

We find ourselves enormously worse off, our economic prospects diminished greatly, and our liberties throttled more tightly by an even bigger Leviathan, with nothing to show for it on the upside but the further enrichment of a handful of big bankers and other malefactors of great wealth and power.

Why do the proponents of global warming try to stamp out dissent? As Horner makes clear, billions of dollars are at stake.

1996 Mises Institute Supporters Summit, San Francisco, California; February 9-10, 1996.

Paul Krugman, e.g., in The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008 (Norton, 2008) says "there will have to be an assertion of more government control — in effect, it will come closer to a full temporary nationalization of a significant part of the financial system."

Rather than accept either administrative law or legislation, Leoni calls for a return to the ancient traditions and principles of "judge-made law" as a method of limiting the State and insuring liberty.