[Excerpted from An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, vol. 1, Economic Thought before Adam Smith. An MP3 audio file of this article, read by Jeff Riggenbach, is available for download.]
[This article is excerpted from An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, vol. 1, Economic Thought Before Adam Smith. An MP3 audio file of this article, read by Jeff Riggenbach, is available for download.]
Andrew Cusack remembers this courageous political philosopher, historian, and author of The Counter-Revolution, who died last week in Richmond, Virginia.
George Will notes (in what is actually an outstanding column on the drug war):
Last week, Mises Daily published “The Nonviolent Black Market in Information” by Manuel Lora and Daniel Coleman.
This week, you can find the same article translated into Estonian.
What differentiates the realm of the natural sciences from that of the sciences of human action is the categorial system resorted to in each in interpreting phenomena and constructing theories. The natural sciences do not know anything about final causes; inquiry and theorizing are entirely guided by the category of causality. The field of the sciences of human action is the orbit of purpose and of conscious aiming at ends; it is teleological.
Leonard E. Read’s classic I, Pencil stands as one of the twentieth century’s pedagogical triumphs. Thousands upon thousands of people have learned about the futility of central planning by considering the incomprehensibly complex processes that go into the production of something as mundane as a pencil. It’s also a process of cooperation that has given us the amazing visual spectacles that entertain us and that we take for granted. I’m a huge fan of the Star Wars saga, the brainchild of George Lucas. Lucas was a visionary, to be sure, but he wasn’t able to do it alone.
The press has gone wild over this Afghanistan war news: the deaths, the coverups, the slaughter, the screw ups, the lies, etc. etc. I haven’t read every bit of news on this but it seems pretty much like a fleshing out and summary of what has appeared on antiwar.com every day for many years. I’m not surprised at all. What am I missing here?
