One of socialism’s last men standing, Cuba has recently softened its stance on foreign investment. In a bid to attract capital to the stagnant economy, a newly proposed foreign investment law would cut taxes on foreigners in half to 15% and exempt most investors from paying it for at least eight years.
The good people at Instituto Mises Hispano often translate Mises Daily articles into Spanish. Here are some recent additions for our Spanish-speaking friends:
MP3 Audio. “The Present State of Entrepreneurship Research” by Peter G. Klein. The Murray N. Rothbard Memorial Lecture, sponsored by Hélio Beltrão. Recorded at the 2014 Austrian Economics Research Conference in Auburn, Alabama, on 21 March 2014.
David Gordon reviews ‘The Great Deformation: How Crony Capitalism Corrupts Free Markets and Democracy’ by David Stockman.
Former Mises Fellow Matt McCaffrey (blog archive here) has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Manchester (which, by the way, houses a collection of the letters of Richard Cobden).
Richard Cobden, the great libertarian of the 19th century, man of peace, leader of the Anti-Corn Law League, and anti-imperialist, was once considered in line to be Prime Minister. Yet, like so many libertarians after him, he was destroyed for his opposition to nationalism and war.
Over at Econlog Bryan Caplan explains “Socialism Was Born Bad: The Case of Oskar Lange” Both Don Boudreaux (at Café Hayek on March 25, 2014) I (on a Facebook share of the post) noticed that the “clarity of thought [which] led him [Lange]directly to a totalitarian vision that he gladly embraced” also provided ar
In this TED Talk, Rory Sutherland discusses the the value of Mises and praxeology in understanding the importance of subjective value and human psychology.
The Mises comments begin at 13:00.
Pete Boettke has an interesting post arguing that Rothbard’s interpretation of Mises’s method although currently more popular is inferior to that of Fritz Machlup, a student of Mises’s in Vienna who later became a prominent member of the U.S. economics profession.