What Did You Expect?
As Murray Rothbard pointed out again and again, the government has no business getting involved in education. In a free market society, people are at liberty to establish whatever educational institutions they wish, and so long as they can secure sufficient funding, they will stay in business. They are free to set up their own standards on whom to hire as faculty. Matters are entirely different if the government gets involved. Then, people must conform to its demands, whether they want to or not.
The Declaration and Dinesh D’Souza’s “Revisionist History”
Cops shoot and paralyze man who told police he feared being “swatted.”
A man told the police he feared being “swatted” by scammers. The cops ignored this and attacked the innocent man instead.
Rothbard Graduate Seminar 2027
Roger and Karen Garrison Celebration of Life
The Declaration and Dinesh D’Souza’s “Revisionist History”
The expression “revisionist history” is often understood negatively and used as a pejorative. It often denotes history that is seen as highly selective, biased, and superficial. On the other hand, there is a positive side of revisionist history. On the positive side, all history involves revision to some extent because history is necessarily selective and requires interpretation with regard to significance.
Austrian Economics and Knowledge
While physical-world knowledge sets the boundaries of what can be produced, catallactic-world knowledge from markets guides what should be produced and how. This typology is applied to the market process.
Waiting to Transit the Thorny Issues of Capital Theory
Jeffrey Herbener reviews a new contribution to capital theory, in which Hanke makes good on a long-standing agreement with Yeager to co-author a book on capital, interest, and waiting.
On the Social Benefits of New Money: A Rejoinder to Block and Barnett
Kristoffer Mousten Hansen and Jonathan Newman reply to defend their argument that an increase in the production of commodity money can be socially beneficial.
