The Real Ron Paul Revolution
Chances are, any young libertarian you meet today will tell you that their chief influence in becoming a libertarian was Ron Paul.
Prelude to World War I
Marx’s Path to Communism
[This article is excerpted from volume 2, chapter 10 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.]
Balance of Trade
Resign to them the management of tariffs, and they will give up all dispute with you in the domain of theory.
Wenzel: “The Mises Institute: Making an Impact”
Robert Wenzel writes:
Although he has some libertarian tendencies, Steve Forbes has to be classified as establishmentarian versus libertarian, which makes his latest book all the more interesting. In his new book, Freedom Manifesto: Why Free Markets Are Moral and Big Government Isn’t, written with co-author Elizabeth Ames, not only are Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek quoted but the Mises Institute is mentioned in the acknowledgements.
Reply to Aziz on Methodology
John Aziz has posted “A Critique of the Methodology of Mises & Rothbard.”
He objects to Mises’ statement that:
Our statements and propositions are not derived from experience. They are not subject to verification or falsification on the ground of experience and facts.
by averring:
Murray Rothbard on Recovering from Economic Depressions
“It should be clear that any governmental interference with the depression process can only prolong it, thus making things worse from almost everyone’s point of view. Since the depression process is the recovery process, any halting or slowing down of the process impedes the advent of recovery. The depression readjustments must work themselves out before recovery can be complete. The more these readjustments are delayed, the longer the depression will have to last, and the longer complete recovery is postponed.”
The Economic Irrationality of the State
“The truth is that the State is a conspiracy designed not only to exploit, but above all to corrupt its citizens.” — Leo Tolstoy
“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One Race to School Them All
The great antifascist scholar Ludwig von Mises warned that government schools are an inevitable source of ethnic conflict, because dominant nationalities can use them to indoctrinate children from other cultures, pulling them away from their parents and communities.1
In Canada, this was explicitly the aim of the Indian residential sc
How to End the Fed, and How Not To
What would replace the Federal Reserve System? Nothing.
