BooksJanuary 22, 2010Murray N. RothbardLibertarian Forum existed from 1969 to 1984. It was a passionate, smart, gossipy, and often shocking newsletter that is as fresh today as when it was written.
Institute PublicationsSpencer Heath MacCallumWe hear a lot of expressed concern about conserving the environment, but no one talks much about producing it. Why not manufacture it competitively and sell it in the free market like other goods and services—and even bundle it with product support? As a matter of fact, that is being done. It...
Institute PublicationsJuly 1, 1999David GordonProfessor Weissberg has taken on, in exemplary fashion, one of the major myths of our age. Professor Weissberg has taken on, in exemplary fashion, one of the major myths of our age.
Institute PublicationsLaurent CarnisT o Serve and Protect is a breath of fresh air in the fog of mainstream recommendations concerning security, crime, and punishment. In the mainstream literature, liberals typically regard the offender as the victim of an egoistic society and conservatives typically say that the only way to reduce...
Institute PublicationsMark ThorntonThis is the most important book on public policy to be published in a long time. Benson takes on the most pervasive government activity, the criminal justice system, and addresses the critical issue of our high crime rate. There are no clear “academic” solutions to this problem, but...
Institute PublicationsPierre DesrochersPerhaps the best concise summary of this book is given by editor Alexander Tabarrok in his concluding chapter. As he points out, where most urbanists see market failures,
BooksFebruary 14, 2009Nicholas OresmeNicole Oresme has been called the most brilliant scientist of the 14th century: mathematician, musicologist, physicist, philosopher, and economist. On top of that, he was a Bishop and a theologian. His writings of money bear much in common with Carl Menger. Oresme's treatise on money, De Moneta...
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JournalsAugust 1, 2007Shawn Ritenour"I champion an economic order ruled by free prices and markets...the only economic order compatible with human freedom." Wilhelm Röpke devoted his scholarly career to combating collectivism in economic, social, and political theory. As a student and proponent of the Austrian School, he...
JournalsAugust 1, 2007Peter G. Klein"A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers." F. A. Hayek is undoubtedly the most eminent of the modern Austrian economists. Student of Friedrich von Wieser, protégé and colleague of Ludwig von Mises, and foremost representative of...
JournalsAugust 1, 2007Peter Lewin"The theory of capital lacks a simple dimension for the measurement of its subject matter. To some minds this makes it all the more attractive." Introduction: his life and work Ludwig Lachmann was a very unusual man. If you ever met him you would never forget him. He left a lasting...
BooksJuly 6, 2006Tibor R. MachanTibor Machan makes the case for the free market system of economics based on the view of human beings as moral agents with the legal system of a good community as designed to nurture this moral agency.
BooksMarch 16, 2010Robert A. NisbetWhen the modern political community was being shaped at the end of the 18th century, its founders thought that the consequences of republican or representative institutions in government would be the reduction of political power in individual lives.
BooksJune 5, 2009Sir Ernest BennGovernment means, or should mean, the right ordering of all. Modern government has degenerated into tinkering with the wants or rights or liberties of classes or sections or groups, and it is rare, in these days, to hear a political discussion which takes adequate account of the interests of the...
BooksJuly 17, 2009Raymond Moley"Individualities may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation." This was a comment by Benjamin Disraeli a century ago when he was beginning the task of building the Conservative Party, a party that still lives a lusty, constructive life...
Audio/VideoMarch 13, 2009Thomas E. Woods, Jr.Thomas E. Woods, Jr., discusses several of his recent books, including the latest 'New York Times' bestseller, "Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and Government Bailouts Will Make Things Worse." Recorded at the annual Austrian...
