[Day 24 of Robert Wenzel’s 30-day reading list that will lead you to become a knowledgeable libertarian, this article was published on LewRockwell.com on July 21, 2004.] Mr. Gary Haugen INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION Dear Mr. Haugen: I attended your speech at Regent College in Vancouver on July 14, 2004; I wanted to comment at that time, but the
[Day 26 of Robert Wenzel’s 30-day reading list that will lead you to become a knowledgeable libertarian, this article originally appeared on LewRockwell.com, January 1, 2004.] I resist the notion that we have a “right to unionize” or that unionization is akin, or, worse, an implication of, the right to freely associate. Yes, theoretically, a labor
[ Libertarian Papers (2010)] The essence of libertarianism is its nonaggression principle. In order to determine whether some act or concept or institution is compatible with this philosophy, one may use this as a sort of litmus test. If you initiate violence against someone, you must pay the penalty for so doing, and are presumptively acting
Murray N. Rothbard used to say that it is impossible to convince the economically illiterate with reductios ad absurdum . Why? This is because the very purpose of this type of logical argument is to embarrass our friends on the Left (and the Right too, sad to say, see below) by taking up the premises of their proposals and applying them to cases
Gary Becker passed away on May 4, 2014 at age 83. There will be many obituaries written about this Nobel Prize winning economist, focusing on his numerous and important contributions to the dismal science. Here, instead, I will tell a more personal story, my own private interactions with my first mentor, Gary Becker. I entered the Columbia
Con la economía del empleo y el desempleo constantemente discutida en las páginas de economía y las campañas políticas, dediquemos nuestra atención a los fundamentos y a extirpar algunas falacias. Si los medios de comunicación nos dicen que «la inauguración de la fábrica XYZ ha creado 1.000 nuevos empleos», nos alegramos. Cuando la empresa ABC
[ Austrian Economics Newsletter , otoño de 1993] El Profesor Gary S. Becker, ganador del Premio Nobel 1992 de Ciencias Económicas es como el Profesor Moriarty del famoso Sherlock Homes. Holmes decía de Moriarty, «Una y otra vez, en casos de los más variados tipos (falsificaciones, robos, asesinatos) he sentido la presencia de esta fuerza». De
Previamente, yo, Walter Block, publiqué un artículo sobre el uso de la palabra «capitalismo». Defendía el empleo de esta nomenclatura en la promoción del libertarismo, criticando la formación de un grupo , liderado por mi viejo y buen amigo, Sheldon Richman, llamado Libertarios contra el Capitalismo. Ahora soy coautor de esta réplica a Sheldon con
[Extracto de Defendiendo lo indefendible ] El avaro nunca se ha recuperado del ataque de Charles Dickens en Un Cuento de Navidad . Aunque el avaro había sido duramente criticado antes de Dickens, la representación de Ebenezer Scrooge se ha convertido en definitiva y ha pasado a formar parte del folclore de nuestro tiempo. De hecho, la actitud se
«¡Muerte a los especuladores!» es un grito de todas las hambrunas que haya habido. Lanzado por demagogos que piensan que el especulador mata de hambre al aumentar el precio de la comida, este grito se ve fervientemente apoyado por las masas de ignorantes económicos. Este tipo de pensamiento, o mejor de no pensamiento, ha permitido a los dictadores
What is the Mises Institute?
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.