Copyright and structure of authors’ earnings
I’ve blogged before some recent findings comparing creativity and innovation in Germany and England during a period of time when Germany had little or no copyright law.
Long tour of the Mises Institute
Some smart French liberals of a Catholic bent, led by Damien Theillier, visited our offices, and I sort of gave them a tour, but I clearly must have forgotten about the camera...or something.
Visite du “Mises Institute” guidée par J. Tucker
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Help Us Build a Future of Liberty
I would like to tell you more about our philosophy and the work that we do, with the hope that you will join me in becoming a financial supporter.
Gold Prices and Panic
Bernanke assured the national audience that the Fed was not printing money; however, he didn’t explain where the Fed was going to get the funds to buy $600 billion worth of treasuries.
Book Review: Free Banking
Complete with an extensive new preface, the republication of Larry Sechrest’s Free Banking is well-timed. The new preface is an important contribution to the ongoing debate within Austrian circles over banking freedom versus 100 percent–reserve banking.
Hoover, Bush, and Great Depressions
Introduction
The most basic rule of economic policy is to allow prices to adjust to market conditions. This maintains Say’s Law and produces what Frédéric Bastiat called economic harmony.
The Auctioneer by Joan Samson
Joan Samson was a Depression baby, born in 1937. In 1975, the year before her death, she published her only novel, The Auctioneer. This seems to be just about the sum total of what is publicly known about her, and that is a damn shame.
The New Deal and Prohibition
[This article originally appeared in the American Mercury in March 1936. An MP3 audio file of this article, read by Donna Orlando, is available for download.]
I believe that when the historian looks back on the last 20 years of American life, the thing that will puzzle him most is the amount of self-inflicted punishment that Americans seem able to stand. They take it squarely on the chin at the slightest provocation and do not even wait for the count before they are back for more.
“Wow, I’m kind of stunned, I’m thinking Sputnik”
That’s Chester Finn’s quote from this morning’s New York Times, reacting to the news that students in Shanghai vastly outscored their counterparts in international standardized educational testing. Finn seems to view this news as Sputnik-like, in that he sees it as an event that would galvanize support for broader federal control of education (if that is even possible in the United States).
