I In recent years the concept of “alienation” and the arguments surrounding it have assumed an increasing importance as part of the case against an economic order based on private property in the means of production. As the more strictly economic criticisms of capitalism prove, to a greater or lesser degree, to be unfounded or inconclusive, the
This article is excerpted from a talk delivered at the 2018 annual meeting of the Property and Freedom Society . Introduction Ladies and gentlemen, the first task for any intellectual or ideological effort is to understand the environment surrounding it. Whether we like it or not, we live in a decidedly illiberal age: an age hostile to private
[Friedrich A. Hayek’s Nobel Prize Lecture delivered at the ceremony awarding him the Nobel Prize in economics in Stockholm, Sweden, December 11, 1974. This lecture, along with “A Free-Market Monetary system,” can be found here in book form.] The particular occasion of this lecture, combined with the chief practical problem which economists have to
One of the most important concepts in economic theory is the quantity of money. However, when going from theory to practical application, things get messy. In the real world, it’s not obvious how to count up the amount of “money” in the economy at any given time. Because of this ambiguity, economists have developed several different “monetary
This talk by Mises Institute President Jeff Deist was delivered on June 19, 2015 at a lunchtime meeting of the Grassroot Institute in Honolulu at the Pacific Club. The talk was part of the Mises Institute’s Private Seminar series for lay audiences. To schedule your own Private Seminar with a Mises Institute speaker, please contact Kristy Holmes
[This is the last formal talk of Ludwig von Mises [1881–1973], delivered May 2, 1970 at an economic seminar sponsored by The Society of Praxeology in Seattle, Washington. It was attended by 600 students, teachers, and others. This text was transcribed from audiotape by Bettina Bien Greaves and edited, primarily for syntax and punctuation, by Percy
[ Excerpt from the opening speech given at the Mises Institute’s 35th Anniversary gala in New York City, October 6, 2017 .] Thank you Ashton. Thank you all so much for making the time to be with us here on this fantastic fall weekend in New York. We hear a lot about young people turning to socialism. Ashton is not one of them. She worked for a
[ The audio and video versions of Professor Hoppe’s keynote address presented at the Mises Institute’s 35th Anniversary celebration in New York City on October 7, 2017, can be found here . ] I first met Murray Rothbard in the summer of 1985. I was then 35 and Murray was 59. For the next ten years, until Murray’s premature death in 1995, I would be
Introducción Señoras y señores, la primera tarea de cualquier esfuerzo intelectual o ideológico es comprender el entorno que lo rodea. Nos guste o no, vivimos en una edad decididamente iliberal: una era hostil a la propiedad privada, el individualismo, la civilidad, el habla, la libertad académica, la cultura, incluso a la civilización misma. El
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