Wilhelm von Humboldt’s ‘The Sphere and Duties of Government’
Guest Post: Wilhelm von Humboldt’s ‘Calm Investigation of the Most Important Questions’
The Fed Turns 100: A Survey of the Critics
“If you say the goal of the Fed was to prevent calamities, then you have to say that it has been a failure.”
Why I Am an Anarcho-Capitalist
Nearly all of us passed through a limited-government — or “minarchist” — period, and it simply never occurred to us to examine our premises closely.
The Myth of the Failure of Capitalism (1932) in French
The French-language site Contrepoints published Ludwig von Mises’s 1932 essay “The Myth of the Failure of Capitalism” in French last week:
De nos jours, un sentiment quasi universel veut que la crise économique des dernières années marque la fin du capitalisme. Ce dernier aurait échoué, dit-on.
Whole Foods CEO on Capitalism
John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods, who in 2009 credited Ludwig von Mises as perhaps the most influential economist in his thinking, is profiled in the Orange County Register:
Mises Institute Now Accepting Bitcoins
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Henry Hazlitt’s 119th Birthday
November 28 was the 119th anniversary of Henry Hazlitt’s birth. Hazlitt, once a member of the Mises Institute’s Board of Advisors, and a great financial benefactor to the Institute as well, is author of the ever-popular Economics in One Lesson. Here Bettina Bien Greaves discusses Hazlitt’s legacy:
Ron Paul Explains How to Proceed with Iran
Ron Paul writes at the Ron Paul Institute:
VIDEO: Napolitano, Higgs, Block, and More Discuss the Mises Institute
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The Capitalist Hero in Fiction and Film
Edward Younkins has recently published Exploring Capitalist fiction: Business Through Literature and Film.
Younkins’ new book examines the themes, plots, and conflicts in more than 20 novels, films and plays, and discusses the role of capitalism within each. According to Younkins’ introduction:
