Philosophy and Methodology

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Murray N. Rothbard

Economists must either make their value judgments explicit and defend them with a coherent ethical system, or strictly refrain from entering, directly, or indirectly, into the public policy realm.

Richard Vedder

It took seven decades, but most people now accept what Ludwig von Mises explained three quarters of a century ago, namely, that centrally directed socialistic economies cannot succeed in coordinating vast numbers of interrelated decisions, in large part because of the information problem arising from non-market forms of resource allocation (Mises 1920). No amount of input-out- put models generated on vast computers can overcome the problems of directing resources under changing conditions of wants and scar-city.

Israel M. Kirzner

What does it mean to say that a person is entitled to own what he has produced? Israel Kirzner answers the question by way of explaining the function of entrepreneurship.

Adam Martin

The canons of conservative orthodoxy, writes Adam Martin, overflow with aspersions cast on libertarians on the grounds that they are too individualistic.