If only Murray was around to see this..
An overwhelming majority of delegates to the Maine Republican convention recently voted to scrap the proposed party platform and replace it with a document created by a group of liberty activists.
[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.]
Zillow reports a double dip in real estate prices in 12 American cities, while The Federal Housing Finance Agency (formerly OFHEO) has released new data showing that housing prices nationwide are going nowhere.
At one Colorado gold mine:
Cash costs amounted to $482 per ounce in the first quarter, compared to a company-wide average of $619.
In the Introduction to his new book, The Capitalist and the Entrepreneur (published as a Mises Daily), Peter Klein tells us of his path to Austrian Economics, as well as his pleasant encounters with Murray Rothbard and Israel Kirzner. He also tells us of the basic thrust of his book:
[Excerpted from chapter 3 of Studies in Economic Nationalism.]
Patrick Barron, Professor of Austrian Economics at the University of Iowa pointed my attention to the following article:
The Chemist’s War: The little-told story of how the U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition with deadly consequences.
http://www.slate.com/id/2245188/pagenum/all/
Here’s a quote from the article:
