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The leading Baconian in political economy, who was also, fittingly, a pioneer in statistics and in the alleged science of “political arithmet

Modern economics traces all human actions back to the value judgments of individuals.

The wave of bombings and assassinations perpetrated by anarchists during the 1890s was largely a fiction. To some extent, it was frankly invented by sensation-mongering writers who hoped to sell newspapers.

Recorded at the Mises Circle in Colorado Springs, Colorado; 18 September 2010. Sponsored by Pikes Peak Economics Club.

Recorded at the Mises Circle in Colorado Springs, Colorado; 18 September 2010. Sponsored by Pikes Peak Economics Club.

The status and reputation of Sir Francis Bacon (1561–1626) is one of the great puzzles in the history of social thought.

Recorded at the Mises Circle in Colorado Springs, Colorado; 18 September 2010. Sponsored by Pikes Peak Economics Club.

Recorded at the Mises Circle in Colorado Springs, Colorado; 18 September 2010. Sponsored by Pikes Peak Economics Club.

Recorded at the Mises Circle in Colorado Springs, Colorado; 18 September 2010. Sponsored by Pikes Peak Economics Club.

In their eagerness to eliminate from history any reference to individuals and individual events, collectivist authors resorted to a chimerical cons

Mencken saw the implications of where his thinking was leading him and he acknowledged those implications frankly. "I am," he wrote in The Smart Set in 1922, "a libertarian of the most extreme variety."...

Rocker was awful on economics, but his focus was not on that. He wrote about nationalism and culture, and here Rocker is fantastic. "States create no culture; indeed, they are often destroyed by higher forms of culture."

Thomas Mun set forth what would become the standard mercantilist line.

Nature does not generate peace and good will. The characteristic mark of the “state of nature” is irreconcilable conflict.

It is Republicans, not libertarians, who favor handouts to and special privileges for big corporations. And Republicans are not libertarians.

Friedenberg was among those who regarded US participation in the Vietnam War as an abomination. He had begun expressing his outrage in print in the mid-'60s, though most of it was directed at American public schools rather than at American foreign policy...

For hundreds of years, politicians (like a certain current US president) have pushed the idea that one man’s profit is another man’s lo

Rothbard shows that Gresham’s law was introduced not by Sir Thomas Gresham but by the “arrogant, boorish, and feisty” Sir Thomas

It seems now that almost everyone, from journalists to academics to clergy, relies unthinkingly on Marxian doctrines.