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What Thoreau was defending here, in 1849, was essentially the same concept the English philosopher Herbert Spencer defended two years later, in his book Social Statics , as "the right to ignore the State."...

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Take cover when you hear a political leader talking about economic affairs. You can bet a bad decision is incoming.

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It should come as a monumental embarrassment to future social scientists to observe that their mainstream predecessors were worse than useless for

The job applications pour in by the buckets, all padded with degrees and made to look as impressive as possible. It’s all just paper.

With so many state governments’ budgets now under severe strain, there are serious discussions about how to cut state funding to public educa

A satisfactory explanation of business fluctuations must not be built upon the fact that individual firms make bad investments.

Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal de Richelieu (1585–1642), considered the mass of Frenchmen simply as animals to be prodded or coerced in ways that

From Theory and History Part Two, “Determination and Materialism”. Narrated by John Pruden.

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From An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume II. Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.

From An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume II. Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.

From An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume II. Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.

From An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume II. Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.

From An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume II. Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.

From An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume II. Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.

From An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume II. Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.

From An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume II. Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.