Protection or Free Trade
Henry George endeavors to determine whether protection or free trade better accords with the interests of labor, and to bring to a common conclusion on this subject those who really desire to raise wages.
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Pseudo-Science and Historical Understanding
In the English language, the word “science” is usually applied only to the natural sciences. There is no doubt that there are fundamental differences between the natural sciences and the science of human action, sometimes called social science...
Psychiatry and Responsibility
The authors who joined the discussions from which this volume resulted were invited on the basis of their earlier work, which had shown an awareness of the consequences of modern psychiatry for the character, values, and future form of our...
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Psychiatry and Responsibility
The authors who joined the discussions from which this volume resulted were invited on the basis of their earlier work, which had shown an awareness of the consequences of modern psychiatry for the character, values, and future form of our...
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Psychology vs. Praxeology
(Excerpt from chapter 17 of Mises: The Last Knight of Liberalism , pp. 765–67.) Mises’s exposition of economic science differed decisively from all modern authors in that it drew a sharp line between praxeology and psychology. This has remained...
Pursue the Cause of Liberty: A Farewell to Congress
This is Ron Paul’s “Farewell to Congress” delivered on November 14, 2012. Yet this is not reminiscence of good times spent in the halls of power. Rather, in this booklet, you will find a devastating denunciation of the evils perpetrated by the...
Reassessing the Presidency: The Rise of the Executive State and the Decline of Freedom
Everyone seems to agree that brutal dictators and despotic rulers deserve scorn and worse. But why have historians been so willing to overlook the despotic actions of the United States’ own presidents? You can scour libraries from one end to the...
Recent Literature on Interest
This book by Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk is a supplement to his two great books, Capital and Interest and The Positive Theory of Capital. Here he takes on alternatives to the Austrian theory he had previously presented, and thereby clarifies the case...
Reflections on the Failure of Socialism
Max Eastman during the time from the Bolshevik Revolution through the early 1950s was one of the most famous political writers in America, known also for such literary works as The Enjoyment of Laughter. He began as a radical and, surprising...
Reply to Dr. Howden on Opportunity Costs
Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 19, no. 2 (Summer 2016) Howden (2016) dedicates a large part of his response to criticizing my way of dealing with and classifying the concept of opportunity costs in my book (Braun, 2014). I must start by...
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Requiem for Marx
After the fall of communism, and certainly after this wide-ranging demolition of Marxism by Austrian scholars, who can possibly defend Marxism? Plenty of people, many of them smart otherwise but uneducated in economics. This book is the antidote...
Resist Not Evil
This remarkable book is the most comprehensive, sweeping, compelling, and unsettling case ever penned against what is laughingly called the criminal-justice system. It is a classic, devastating at its core, that is made newly available to speak...
Resurgence of the Warfare State: The Crisis Since 9/11
At least since World War I, Austrians have pointed to the relationship between warmongering and the decline of economic liberty. In our times, Robert Higgs is the most articulate and learned upholder of the position that free markets require...
Resurrecting Marx
The collapse of socialism didn’t deter the Marxists, who moved on to invent new rationales for their system. But David Gordon has caught up with them, and used the knife of the Austrian School to cut their theories to pieces. A masterful...
Review of Andrew Carnegie: An Economic Biography by Samuel Bostaph
Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 19, no. 3 (Fall 2016): 302–306 Entrepreneur Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919) emigrated to the United States from Scotland at age 12, working entry-level jobs (bobbin boy, messenger, telegraph operator) that...
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Review of Living Economics: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow by Peter Boettke
Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 19, no. 3 (Fall 2016): 288–296 This is a book about the general applicability of economics and how it “affects all walks of life” (from the back-cover blurb). No less than 23 endorsing statements are...
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Review of America’s Bank: The Epic Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve by Roger Lowenstein
Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 19, no. 2 (Summer 2016) “The problem with economic historians,” Murray Rothbard once quipped, “is that half of them are historians who don’t know any economics and the other half are economists who don’t...
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Review of Austrian Economics, Full Collection
Murray Rothbard had long dreamed of an Austrian academic journal. In 1986, his dream came true. The Mises Institute published it, and it changed everything. The Austrians could focus on internal development, highlight the contrast with the...
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Review of Monetary Regimes and Inflation: History, Economic, and Political Relationships, Second Edition by Peter Bernholz
Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 19, no. 2 (Summer 2016) The recent financial crisis of 2007–2008 generated a debate among economists over whether the leading central banks’ unprecedented monetary intervention would spark a massive...
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Review of The Ontology and Function of Money: The Philosophical Fundamentals of Monetary Institutions
Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 19, no. 2 (Summer 2016) This ambitious new book on the foundations of money and monetary institutions, based on the the author’s Ph.D. disseration defended in 2011 at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in...
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