Know the New Deal Cold
It’s essential for those who believe in a free economy and a free society to know the history of the Great Depression and the New Deal, to know it cold, and to know it better than anyone.
Give Capitalism a Chance
It is a common assumption in today’s world that capitalism is, at best, out of control and, at worst, outright evil. Everyone knows that it causes most of our financial, economic, and social problems. Of course, everyone is wrong.
PR/Journalism: The Bubble Industry That Popped
MSNBC today features an article on the job disaster that the GenY/Millennials are facing. These are people born in the 1980s and 1990s who who were unfortunate enough to enter the job market at one of the worst possible times in history.
English Absolutism and the Great Chain of Being
[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.]
Belesbat, Boisguilbert, and the Natural Order of the Free Market
[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.]
Was Classical Liberalism a “Strife of Interests Masquerading as a Contest of Principles”?
Harry Elmer Barnes argues that the theory we call “libertarianism” was developed merely to justify an economic and political program serving the interests of the 17th-century middle class.
Thomas Molnar, R.I.P.
Andrew Cusack remembers this courageous political philosopher, historian, and author of The Counter-Revolution, who died last week in Richmond, Virginia.
Liquor consumption in the Jacksonian era
George Will notes (in what is actually an outstanding column on the drug war):
A Different Look at Classical Liberalism
Forty years ago, Ralph Raico completed his dissertation under F.A. Hayek’s direction. The issue Raico addresses — the revelation of a different form of early liberalism — has major implications in our own time as well.
Estonians against Pattern Privilege
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.
