This would have been a sad day for Murray Rothbard, who loved Wonder Bread (and often used it in examples, as he did here (PDF) and here (audio)). Hostess, the maker of Wonder Bread and Twinkies has folded, thanks to a nationwide strike.
[The Bastiat Collection (2011); originally from the second series of Economic Sophisms (1848)]
[This article is excerpted from volume 2, chapter 12 of An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought (1995). An MP3 audio file of this chapter, narrated by Jeff Riggenbach, is available for download.]
Recently a friend asked for recommendations of books suitable for instructing high school students in Austrian economics. He was already familiar with Henry Hazlitt’s classic Economics in One Lesson and David Gordon’s scintillating primer An Introduction to Economic Reasoning. I recommended two additional books for his consideration.
[From Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow (1979), Lecture 2, “Socialism” (1958)]
Chief among his focus on women’s issues is the so-called equal-pay-for-equal-work campaign.
