What’s especially brilliant about Ron’s new book is that he doesn’t just deal in abstractions. He takes on 50 difficult areas of politics today and shines a new light of liberty on each of them. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth, and then enlightenment.
Few suggestions for monetary reform have commanded such immediate and widespread interest as that which has attended the proposal to require 100 percent cash reserves against bank demand deposit liabilities. No small part of this interest can be traced to Professor Irving Fisher’s genius for turning things, by schoolmen brewed, into human nature’s daily food.
Assume that you want to help the poor and the oppressed. If you get a job in a “public service” occupation like teaching or the non-profit sector, you will be showered with plaudits
This lecture is fantastic, really. Professor Kors draws heavily from Mises himself.
Socialism’s Legacy – Alan Charles Kors from Clemson Institute on Vimeo.
In my posts Update: Patents Kill: Compulsory Licenses and Genzyme’s Life Saving Drug and Patents Kill: Compulsory Licenses and Genzyme’s Life Saving Drug, I noted that, due to the monopoly granted by patent, people suffering from the genetic illness Fabry disease are unable to obtain the drug Fabrazyme, which
The Wall Street Journal’s Melinda Black has an interesting piece in today’s edition entitled “The Sleepless Elite.” One to three percent of the population require less than six hours of sleep to function well. In fact, she points out that not only do these short sleepers function, but they are upbeat, tend to be thin and energetic.
[Introduction to Economic Controversies (2011)]
It was nearly 40 years ago that Murray Rothbard changed my life. I was then a PhD candidate in economics at the New School for Social Research in downtown Manhattan, while also teaching principles courses at a local university. And I was rapidly losing interest in the whole subject.
[Introduction to The Bastiat Collection (2011), a fantastic new edition, containing all his most important works in a pocket size at an incredibly low price. It is a treasure. An MP3 audio file of this article, narrated by the author, is available for download.]
