Value and Exchange

Am I unlibertarian for hoping this guy wins? I mean, live by the sword, die by the sword, right?

Gold fund manager John Embry writes in Investors Digest of Canada,

I received an impressive inquiry from a high school senior: “I am contacting you to ask if I can interview you for my senior project paper, which i

The Lockean (and Rothbardian) theory of initial acquisition of property involves the necessity of mixing one’s labor with an object in the ex

There’s no doubt that prosperity has smiled brighter and brighter on the last four generations.

That Doherty has been badly misled by his credulity and by his investigative and interpretive derelictions is substantiated in an oddly telling review of his book by Fink protégé Tyler Cowen who, according to Doherty (2007, p. 579), "arose from the George Mason University, Koch-funded, Austrian economics program, and is currently president of the [Koch-funded] Mercatus Center."

At least it will give us something to do until we figure out where next to hitch up the engine of inflation. At which point we can once again cast off the hair shirts, put on our gladrags, and throw another wild, exuberant, but ultimately destructive, orgy of high living and hot money — and devil take the hindmost!

What could these two thinkers, considered to be opposites, have in common?

Yesterday the president of the Open Source Initiative attempted to show how the philosophy underscorin

Recorded at Mises University 2007.