The Acton Institute has put together a very effective hour-long feature called The Call of the Entrepreneur, which has been premiering in theaters across the country over the past several months. We had the pleasure of premiering it in our own home not long ago, and it is quite excellent. For once, the moral dimension of entrepreneurial activity is brought to the fore and celebrated. For once the heroes are creators, not political hacks.

Flights to the moon could become a reality soon, for $100 million:

The Universidad Rey Juan Carlos now offers a Masters degree in economics, under Jesus Huerta de Soto, with a focus on the Austrian School. More here.

Brian Doherty writes in The New York Sun: New York City is the celebrated center for many vital aspects of American culture: publishing, finance, and the arts. It rarely has been credited, however, as a cutting-edge leader in political ideologies.

John Updike on the Great Depression:

I was thumbing through our new edition of The Law and loving it, of course, especially this passage:

Some excellent material, including images, at GCC.edu.

We’ve all suspected that the market economy has a civilizing effect on people, but I’ve rarely seen such a poignant example.

Here I was returning a rental car to the dealer, and some confusion set in about the keys. The attendant asked for them back, and I handed them over even as I was pulling bags and things out of the car. The attendant hopped in the driver’s seat to check the mileage, and left the keys in the car. He shut the door, I shut another, even as one more bag remained insider. But there was a hitch: the car was now locked.  

The market for tools, the market for meat: both were essential in evolutionary advance.