In a conversations in the comments of another post on September 7, I said: “Obama too is guilty of warmongering, nationalism, and corporatism, just as the bailouts and other interventions that Romney and Ryan supported also contributed to regime uncertainty. Obama is just slightly less disastrous on foreign policy grounds, and Romney is slightly
Today would have been the 84th birthday of JoAnn Rothbard. Read about Joey and listen to her speak about her husband, Murray, who called her his “indispensable framework”. (Thanks to Pat
Ludwig von Mises, the most important social philosopher in history, was born 131 years ago today. To learn about this heroic figure, check out Tom Woods’ excellent resource page on
The Ludwig von Mises Institute welcomes its new Executive Director, and inaugural Carl Menger Research Fellow, Peter G. Klein! Lew Rockwell announced the appointment at the Manhattan Mises Circle . Click here for audio, or read the transcript: Peter is an associate professor of Economics at the University of Missouri. He also taught at the
In the Wall Street Journal editorial (”How the Fed Favors the 1%”) Doug French pointed out last week, the author, hedge fund CIO Mark Spitznagel, draws on Hume, Mises, Rothbard, and Hayek. He doesn’t cite Richard Cantillon , although he might well have, as he is touching on “Cantillon effects” in the following passage: David Hume, the
In End the Fed , Ron Paul writes: Early on, I had heard Ludwig von Mises lecture at the University of Houston. This was probably in 1972, a year before his death. At that time I was extremely busy with my medical practice but saw a very small newspaper notice that Mises would be lecturing at the university on a weekday. I knew there was only
Check out Ron Paul’s great comeback at 4:04. Krugman accused Paul of wanting to go back a hundred years in monetary policy. Paul pointed out that Krugman’s inflationism is going back over a thousand years to go the ruinous currency debasement of ancient times. (In Human Action , Mises argued that such debasement led to the fall of the Roman
John Tamny at Forbes cites Mises to explain how the Lone Path to Cheap Healthcare is Expensive Healthcare , and how the path to highly scarce healthcare is state-mandated “free” and “affordable” healthcare. “Healthcare is not an inalienable right as the Left maintains. How could it be, considering it didn’t even exist until very recently and still
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