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Machiavelli was reviled throughout Europe during the 16th century and on into the next two centuries.

Even Marx did not contest the fact that private initiative and private ownership of the means of production were indispensable stages in the progre

Tucker was a proponent, in the 19th century, of American individualist anarchism. He opposed war because it destroyed liberty, but he favored the allies. Tucker's contribution was as much through his publishing as his own writing.

By the 12th century, the Italian city-states had evolved a new form of government, new at least since ancient Greece.

Ultimately, when Rose died — it was in 1968, she was 81 — Roger MacBride inherited everything she owned, including the fabulously valuable rights to the Little House books ostensibly written by her mother...

It is remarkable that the Constitution was little trusted or admired by the wisest and most illustrious of its founders, and that its severest and

Presented to the Auburn University Economics Club; Auburn, Alabama, on 25 March 2010. Includes a Question and Answer period.

Economics is about human choice and action. The praxeological concept of time is not the concept of physics or biology.

Calvin’s embattled followers, enjoying rising aspirations against non-Calvinist rulers, developed justifications for resistance to evil ruler

Printing up money and lowering the value of all dollar-denominated assets while simultaneously benefiting political friends and accomplices is sure

Ferris' book The Science of Liberty: Democracy, Reason, and the Laws of Nature is about the symbiotic relationship between science and liberalism. He thinks science caused liberty. Lynn Hunt's Inventing Human Rights posits that rights are self evident. She thinks the novel caused liberty.

The international gold standard works without any action on the part of governments.

Over two decades before the Spanish Jesuit de Mariana, George Buchanan arrived, for the first time, at a truly individualist theory of natural righ

The motive was empire on one side and self-government on the other.

Textbook commissions, especially from Texas, decide what ideas will be within any book. Political pressure now makes textbooks promote special interest groups.

Fake booms and their consequent busts are directly linked to financial cycles, which in turn reflect the swings in money creation.

Jeffrey Tucker interviews John Papola. Recorded 13 March 2010.

Recorded March 13th, 2010, at the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.

Recorded March 13, 2010, at the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.