Pulitzer-Winning Palaver
Pulitzer Prize winner Steven Pearlstein thinks those who regard the virtue of private gains and losses are just too dense to comment on government bailouts.
The Ron Paul of the Second Reich
In his recent wonderful book, Classical Liberalism and the Austrian School, Ralph Raico gives Eugen Richter (1830-1906), the neglected hero of authentic German liberalism, his due. As I read the chapter, I kept feeling as if I was reading about Ron Paul.
Just as Ron Paul has been “Dr. No” in Congress, Richter was a veritable “Herr Nein” (or as one German historian called him, “the eternal nay-sayer”) in the Reichstag.
Early Christian Communism
[This article is excerpted from An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought (1995), volume 2, chapter 9: “Roots of Marxism: Messianic Communism.” An MP3 audio file of this article, narrated by Jeff Riggenbach, is available for download.]
Say’s Law of Markets
[This article is excerpted from An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought (1995), volume 2, chapter 1, section 7: “Say’s Law of Markets.” An MP3 audio file of this chapter, narrated by Jeff Riggenbach, is available for download.]
J.B. Say Salvages the Entrepreneur
If Adam Smith purged economic thought of the very existence of the entrepreneur, J.B. Say, to his everlasting credit, brought him back.
Caplan on “The Awful Mill”
Bryan Caplan recently blogged about “the awful” John Stuart Mill, calling him ”shockingly muddled.”
Rothbard, more than perhaps any other scholar, exposed Mill’s muddleheadedness and its likely roots. His verdict on Mill was that he was a “woolly minded man of mush” and his philosophy “a vast kitchen midden of diverse and contradictory positions.”
To Protect and Conserve
By allowing their clients to hunt and kill exotic animals on private hunting grounds, Texas ranchers are doing more for animal conservation than anyone else.
