Economics of Oblivion
Economics does have exactitude, qualitative, not a quantitative. We cannot know the number or size of all the cakes in the world, or when they will be eaten, but we can know that whoever eats his cake no longer has it.
The School of Salamanca Saw This Coming
For the priests writing in Spain 500 years ago, to regulate the interest rate through a centralized authority would be to presume that one man could know that of which only God has certain knowledge.
The Rise of the Great but Abstract Evil
To accomplish its purpose, the state gradually seized total control of the monetary system. Van Creveld is, with Murray Rothbard, one of the few historians who sees the centrality of this control.
What Is the Proper Way to Study Man?
The enormous prestige gained by physics in advancing our knowledge of the material world has led to the uncritical transfer of the methods appropriate in the natural sciences to the study of actions of men.
What Is Free Trade?
There would be no need to fight for free speech, free press, free worship, or free soil, if nobody had put restraints in those matters. We never should have heard of free trade, if no restrictions had ever been put on trade.
Shocking News: People Take Free Money!
After barely a week in full-tilt operation the “Cash for Clunkers” program has been suspended. As recently taken apart in a Mises Daily, this program is a particularly absurd example of the broken-window fallacy. But the suspension of the program has brought even more economic absurdity.
Essays in Honor of Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Hans-Hermann Hoppe is one of the most important scholars of our time. He and his writings have inspired scholars to follow in his footsteps and to provide a scientific foundation for individual freedom and a free society.
Our Enemy, the State
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If we look beneath the surface of our public affairs, we can discern one fundamental fact, namely, a great redistribution of power between society and the State. This is the fact that interests the student of civilization. He has only a secondary or derived interest in matters like price fixing, wage fixing, inflation, political banking, “agricultural adjustment,” and similar items of State policy that fill the pages of newspapers and the mouths of publicists and politicians. All these can be run up under one head.
Meet the Enemy
Albert Jay Nock’s realism melts away the efforts of earlier political philosophers to explain the origins of the state either as an expression of “divine will” or as the product of an alleged “social contract.”
Our Leftist Economic Teaching
A few years ago a House of Representatives Subcommittee on Publicity and Propaganda in the Executive Departments, under the chairmanship of Representative Forest A. Harness, investigated Federal propaganda operations. On one occasion the Committee had as a witness a government-employed doctor. When asked if his public speeches throughout the country presented both sides of the discussion touching compulsory national health insurance, this witness answered: “I don’t know what you mean by both sides.”
