I cannot begin my lecture without first expressing all my deep gratitude to the Mises Institute, which honors me so much by presenting me the Gary G. Schlarbaum Award. And my gratitude is also addressed to Mr. Gary Schlarbaum who has so generously founded this award.
The view of Plato as an apologist for totalitarianism has become something close to orthodoxy in the Austrian wing of the libertarian tradition. The purpose of this essay is to contest that view and thereby reclaim Plato as an ally in the age-old struggle against the state.
Cwik’s dissertation submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Auburn University for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, 14 May 2004.
One may say that, apart from wars and revolutions, there is nothing in our modern civilizations which compares in importance to [inflation]. The upheavals caused by inflations are so profound that people prefer to hush them up and conceal them.
—Elias Canetti, Crowds and Power
“Drewnowski’s Economic Theory of Socialism,” Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 76, No. 4, Part I (July/August 1968), pp. 645–650.
From the American Journal of Economics and Sociology Vol. 57, No. 4, October 1998.
Published in Advances in Austrian Economics, Vol. 3, 1996.
Drawing on her doctoral dissertation, Sandye Gloria-Palermo has undertaken a history-of-thought survey of the Austrian tradition from Menger to Lachmann. In the process she considers the works of Böhm-Bawerk, Wieser, Mises, Hayek, Rothbard, Kirzner, and Lachmann — a tall order, to say the least. In order to accomplish her task she has chosen to narrow her focus to one central theme: How do these theorists measure up when judged in terms of the standards set by Menger.
“The theory of capital lacks a simple dimension for the measurement of its subject matter. To some minds this makes it all the more attractive.”
