Yang Jisheng, a Chinese journalist, is the author of the 2012 book Tombstone, a meticulously researched and definitive history of the Great Chinese Famine engineered by Mao Zedong from 1958 to 1962, during which 36 million Chinese perished from starvation.
“The gloves are off in the roiling academic dispute over the merits of austerity and the dangers of debt.”
Here is a book review from the Wall Street Journal that gives a good picture of the past and present of China.
May 24th, 2013 will remain in the annals of the Circle Bastiat as an infamous day of self-promotion. There is indeed a second publication which yours truly is most happy to announce: the Russian edition of the Last Knight of Liberalism: Последний рыцарь либерализма: Биография Людвига фон Мизеса (Chelyabinsk: Социум, 2013), 893 pp. Translated by Alexander Kuryaev, Tatiana Danilova, Elena Vasilyeva, Marina Oborina, Yuri Nurmeev, Vasily Koshkin, and Natalia Avtonomova.
Yours truly is happy to announce a new book publication : Krise der Inflationskultur (Munich: Finanzbuch-Verlag, 2013), 320 pp.
Speech (transcript) by Murray Rothbard: The Six Stages of the Libertarian Movement.
The Mises Institute and Mises Univeristy are mentioned and pictured in this column asking Will Think Tanks Become The Universities of The Future?
The Journal of Prices & Markets, published by the Ludwig von Mises Institute of Canada, is a journal that seeks to improve the understanding of the role of markets in the economy. Submissions should seek to shed light on contemporary issues while being grounded in a praxeological reasoning. Prices & Markets welcomes submissions from a variety of fields such as politics, sociology, and psychology, where ever they can bring relevance to economic and financial questions.
