Philosophy and Methodology

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Wendy McElroy

From the interview: "The state and the market are incompatible institutions. One exists only to the detriment of the other. That is why there will always be a struggle between power and liberty, and may liberty be the victor in the end."

Thomas J. DiLorenzo

The country is permanently divided between two classes of voters, but Calhoun saw the way out, says Thomas DiLorenzo

Randall G. Holcombe

The first presidents were appointed, not elected. Not until the rise of Andrew Jackson in the 1820s did popular voting have a role in the selection of presidents.

William H. Peterson

Consumer sovereignty in the democracy of the market economy is supreme over every producer and over every worker from the clerk to the CEO. The consumer votes them all up or down.

Tibor R. Machan

Consider an essay by social theorist Alan Wolfe, in which purports to analyze America's excessively consumerist capitalist society.  

William L. Anderson

Elections don't choose society's authentic leaders. Real leaders emerge from within the ranks of voluntary sector of society, says William Anderson. 

Martin van Creveld

The secret of the state's rise was the separation of the ruler from the organization, says Martin van Creveld, who also predicts the state's demise. 

Robert P. Murphy

Robert Murphy unmasks another absurd assumption in a counterintuitive conclusion of mainstream economics.

 

David Gordon

The validity of Freud's theories seems at first sight far removed from the usual concerns of The Mises Review. In fact, it is not. Freud mounted a strong attack on morality and tradition. 

Jeffrey M. Herbener

Fetter saw "economics as essentially the study of value, and has viewed all economic phenomena as the concrete expression, under varied circumstances, of one uniform theory of value.