David Theroux has penned a lovely tribute to Bob Higgs, who recently stepped down as founding editor of the very fine Independent Review. Aside from being a great scholar, writer, and speaker, Bob is a terrific editor -- academics are not known for their sparking prose, and Bob has a knack for molding even the most pedantic, turgid paragraphs into a readable, engaging story.
Against the cultural elite and their promotion of patrician—and mostly European—standards for the arts, Cantor maintains that the marketplace enables creative and experimental forms of expression that aren’t so different from earlier aesthetic media such as the serialized novel or popular plays.
Mises University, which accepts only one in three applicants, welcomed an extremely talented group of 150 graduate and undergraduate students this year who had the opportunity to learn from some of the finest scholars of the Austrian school in the world, including more than one best-selling author. (Thanks to our donors, there is no charge for students to attend.) Why should you sponsor a student at Mises U?
Mises Institute Associated Scholar Paul Gottfried writes today in The American Conservative:
While Robert Higgs no longer edits The Independent Review, he continues his unique commentary in the “Etceteras.” The newest issue is no exception and his “The Sluggish Recovery of Real Net Domestic Private Business Investment” should not be missed by anyone wishing to make senses of the Bush-Obama-Fed Great Stagnation (nor should last month’s “
As Rothbard pointed out, war and militarism are socialism writ large, and not surprisingly, war is very expensive to the taxpayers, and especially to those who are the targets of military intervention.
Ronald Coase (1910-2013) died Monday at the age of 102. Since Coase became an economist, in the early 1930s, the economics profession has been altered enormously in fundamental ways.
