• Honors: Aaron Singleton, Philipp Bagus, Philip Ruijs, Carl Jacobsson, Jack Parker, David Heinrich, Mateusz Machaj
• Passed: Daniel Carreiro, Tomasz Maslanka, Anthony Gregory, Elliot Olson, Matt Simpson, Manny Glover, Manuel Abalo, Amadeus Gabriel, Eric Phillips, Marcin Zielinski
• Douglas French Prize for most learned ($2,500): Mateusz Machaj

Update: see this post for more on this.

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I asked recently of some colleagues if anyone recalled where Mises said that economics or catallactics is the most developed or highly elaborated branch of praxeology, but that someone was working (at the time) on applying praxeology to the study of conflict, or war. Sudha Shenoy pointed me to the answer: in Mises’ Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science Mises writes:

I posted the following perhaps intelligent, somewhat educational comment in response to a plethora of posts denouncing Chuck Hagel’s stand on the Israeli-Lebanese conflict and his call for a withdrawal of US troops in Iraq within 6 months:

I’m glad “mainstream” media finally catches on to the fact that sanctions don’t work. They are worse than useless; they actually destroy a dictator’s political opposition. If you want to keep a dictator in power, blockade his country.

Sweet Home Alabama

By Kyle Wingfield

Wall Street Journal Europe

August 4, 2006

Update: My article, The Greatest Libertarian Books, appeared on LewRockwell.com on Monday, August 7, 2006. See discussion here.

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In my article, I mentioned:

A blog to watch: The Chronicles of Mises