4. Review of Lionel Robbins, The Great Depression
REVIEW OF LIONEL ROBBINS, THE GREAT DEPRESSION
November 14, 1959
Dr. Ivan R. Bierly
William Volker Fund
Dear Ivan:
Lionel Robbins’s The Great Depression23 is one of the great economic works of our time. Its greatness lies not so much in originality of economic thought, as in the application of the best economic thought to the explanation of the cataclysmic phenomena of the Great Depression. This is unquestionably the best work published on the Great Depression.
5. Letter on The Eighteenth-Century Commonwealthman by Caroline Robbins
LETTER ON THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY COMMONWEALTHMAN BY CAROLINE ROBBINS
November 26, 1959
Mr. Kenneth S. Templeton
William Volker Fund
Dear Ken:
6. Letter on What is Political Philosophy? by Leo Strauss
LETTER ON WHAT IS POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY? BY LEO STRAUSS
January 23, 1960
Mr. Kenneth S. Templeton
William Volker Fund
Dear Ken:
7. Letter on Thoughts on Machiavelli by Leo Strauss
LETTER ON THOUGHTS ON MACHIAVELLI BY LEO STRAUSS
February 9, 1960 Dr. Ivan R. Bierly
National Book Foundation
Dear Ivan:
8. Letter on On Tyranny by Leo Strauss
LETTER ON ON TYRANNY BY LEO STRAUSS
July 4, 1960 Dr. Ivan R. Bierly
William Volker Fund
Dear Ivan:
9. The Symposium on Relativism: A Critique
THE SYMPOSIUM ON RELATIVISM: A CRITIQUE
Prefatory Note
10. On Polanyi’s The Great Transformation
ON POLANYI’S THE GREAT TRANSFORMATION
June, 1961
To: Robby
William Volker Fund
Karl Polanyi’s The Great Transformation is a farrago of confusions, absurdities, fallacies, and distorted attacks on the free market.72 The temptation is to engage in almost a line-by-line critique. I will abjure this to first set out some of the basic philosophic and economic flaws, before going into some of the detailed criticisms.
Chronology Of The Life And Works Of Murray Newton Rothbard
Chronology of the Life and Works of Murray Newton Rothbard
CHRONOLOGY OF THE LIFE AND WORKS OF MURRAY NEWTON ROTHBARD
1926. Murray Newton Rothbard is born in New York on March 2, son of Jewish immigrants from Poland.
1942. Goes to Columbia University and at the end of the Second World War becomes a member of the Young Republican Club of New York. Rothbard is close to the isolationist Old Right, which has, however, lost much of its influence by this time.
1946. Is awarded a master’s degree in mathematics.
1949. Attends a seminar on the Austrian School of economics, held by Ludwig von Mises at New York University.
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