Other Schools of Thought

Recorded at Mises University 2007.

Recorded at Mises University 2007.

Recorded at Mises University 2007.

His likeable wife Eleanor helped spread the gospel that underpinned the New Deal: that living off the toil of others is perfectly acceptable and moral. Most Americans, not even a century removed from fighting a Civil War supposedly to end such an inhuman practice, agreed.

Some left-leaning bloggers want to form one in order to “receive health insura

The odd twists of this episode of protectionist plunder would not have surprised Bastiat.

The Frederick L. Maier Lecture, recorded at Mises University 2007.

Mises’ socialist calculation argument reshaped the debate about socialism. It was not true that socialism could work and could use the same techniques as capitalism. The book Socialism had a decisive impact on Hayek and other rising economists.

Having read the above, you are now in a tiny elite of people who know anything about the greatest death camp in the history of the world that China became between 1949 and 1976, an experiment in total control unlike anything else in history.

Contrast our world with that of the political class. Here, scarcity is nonexistent. While my wife and I struggled over whether or not we could commit financial resources, the politician simply commits our resources for us. No questions asked.