Michael Levin

Articles

07/30/2014 Journal of Libertarian Studies Michael Levin

That philosophic ideas count is no news to Austrian economists, whose economic theories rest on conceptual analyses of action and value. But philosophy can confuse as well as guide. In this article, I...

Dilbert’s Mistake

12/01/1997 Free Market Michael Levin

Scott Adams, creator of the comic strip Dilbert, emerged a few years back as one of the cleverest cartoonists in the long history of that art. His eponymous protagonist, by now familiar to everyone, is a software engineer with vaguely defined duties at a large technology firm. Dilbert's closest companion is Dogbert, a philosophical pooch with the self-professed aim of world conquest.

Who Should Pay for Science?

08/01/1995 Free Market Michael Levin

There is no reason for taxpayers to support trips to the moon, particle physics, or any other research not directly serving defense against external or internal aggression, the core function of government. Funds for basic research can be allocated by the market.

Media

The President as Social Engineer

03/01/2004 Michael Levin

Recorded at the Reassessing the Presidency seminar; March 2004. (44:14)

The Era of Deadly Error

01/13/2009 Michael Levin

Sponsored by the Mises Institute and held in Atlanta, Georgia; 26-27 September 1997.

The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard.

Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.