Thomas E. Woods, history professor at Suffolk Community College, is a prolific specialist in American Colonial history, the Progressive Era, and modern political history, and the author an important intellectual history of the progressive era as well
Joseph Salerno, professor of economics at Pace University, is a leading figure in today’s growing Austrian School. He has been a pioneer in many fields, including monetary theory, comparative systems, the history of thought, and the economics of
The Austrian Scholars Conference is the international, interdisciplinary meeting of the Austrian School, and for scholars interested or working in this intellectual tradition, it is the event of the year.
Over the course of three days, expanded from
The current economic recovery has too much in common with the last boom, complete with pockets of malinvestment, absurd but sector-specific price increases, vast amounts of public and private debt, artificially low interest rates, a boom in big
American Revolution was a tax revolt. So was Fort Sumter. The Bible and Shakespeare are full of tax stories. Even the Rosetta Stone is about taxes. Few people in history like to have their money taken by force, even if thetax collector works for a
Grove City College will host the Austrian Students Scholars Conference, November 5-6, 2004. Open to current undergraduates, the ASSC will bring together students from colleges and universities across the country to present their own research papers
Rooted in the tradition of Carl Menger and Ludwig von Mises, as well as Murray Rothbard and F.A. Hayek, the Austrian School offers a rigorous and logical approach to economics that gives free markets their due and takes full account
Rooted in the tradition of Carl Menger and Ludwig von Mises, as well as Murray Rothbard and F.A. Hayek, the Austrian School offers a rigorous and logical approach to economics that gives free markets their due and takes full account
Join tax historian Charles Adams for a week-long seminar in a new history of taxation from the ancient world to the present. His three books on the topic have highlighted the role that the state’s relentless drive for more revenue has inspired wars
Robert Higgs, editor of The Independent Review, is the author of the book Crisis and Leviathan, a survey of the episodic growth of the federal government in periods of war and economic crisis. His “ratchet” theory of the expansion of power provides a
Ralph Raico, professor of European history at Buffalo State College and Schlarbaum laureate, is the author of a history of German liberalism, Die Partei der Freiheit, and such articles as ”World War I: The Turning Point” and “Rethinking Churchill” in
In books such as Democracy: The God that Failed and A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism, Hoppe has shown that property rights and thus liberty are violated whenever a territorial monopolist on the use of force (i.e., a state) purports to be a more
Rothbard Memorial Lecture
Joseph Stromberg, Mises Institute
“Rothbard’s Systematic Defense of Liberty”
Hazli
The Mises University is the world’s leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics. Since 1984, it has been the essential training ground for economists who are looking beyond the mainstream.
The program offers courses, seminars
Before the 20th century, economic science was seen as an integrated whole that lent itself particularly well to treatise-length expositions. Every important economist aspired to write one that built the science, block by block, from first principles
MEMORIAL LECTURES
Mises Memorial Lecture
JOHN P. COCHRAN, Professor of Economics, Metropolitan State College of Denver
“Capital Monetary Calculation, and the Trade Cycle: The Importance of Sound Money”
Rothbard Memorial Lecture
BUTLER SHAFFER
On October 18–19, 2002, the Mises Institute celebrates its 20th anniversary with a retrospective of the huge progress made thus far, and a look into the future. The young professors, intellectual giants, working journalists, and financial
The Mises University is the world’s leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics. Since 1984, it has been the essential training ground for economists who are looking beyond the mainstream.
The program offers courses, seminars
The idea of freedom encompasses more than economics. It must also consider philosophy, law, religion, history, and culture. These were themes dealt with in the work of Murray N. Rothbard, who was surely one of the great creative forces in the history
Welcome, LLEWELLYN H. ROCKWELL, JR. — Mises Institute
“An Introduction to Economic Reasoning,” DR. PETER KLEIN — University of Missouri
10:50–11:00 a.m. Discussion and refreshments
11:00–11:50 a.m. “Markets and Morality,” DR. PETER KLEIN
11:50 a.m.–1:00
