Mao Zedong, founder of the People’s Republic of China, qualifies as the greatest mass murderer in world history , an expert who had unprecedented access to official Communist Party archives said yesterday. () At least 45 million people were worked, starved or beaten to death in China over these four years () Mr Dikötter is the only author to
Paul Krugman is fretting that the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development is listening to the “ Pain Caucus “, since it is recommending austerity measures. Not to worry Mr. Krugman, Team Profligacy is on the case! From Spiegel : Europe is eager to begin paying down sovereign debt. The US wants to see Germany and France continue
In the Introduction to his new book, The Capitalist and the Entrepreneur ( published as a Mises Daily), Peter Klein tells us of his path to Austrian Economics, as well as his pleasant encounters with Murray Rothbard and Israel Kirzner. He also tells us of the basic thrust of his book: “The essays collected in this volume reflect my efforts to
Quote Bastiat: “Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all.” – Frédéric Bastiat (via reddit
Today Paul Krugman responded to his, as he put it, “haters”: “others are using that out-of-context remark about the Fed “needing” to create a housing bubble.() So did I call for a bubble? The quote comes from this 2002 piece, in which I was pessimistic about the Fed’s ability to generate a sustained economy. If you read it in context, you’ll see
Tom Woods just delivered his first Mises Academy live session (for his online course The New Deal: History, Economics, and Law ) and the student consensus in the public chat is clear: as one student wrote, “great first class!!!” First, Woods gave an outstanding lecture on the origins of the 1929 crash (see his informative slides here ). Then he
There is a YouTube video entitled “ A Critique of Austrian Economics “, made by an anonymous YouTuber, which has had over twenty thousand views. The reader is dripping with insipid condescension; he reads the whole thing in this pedantic sing-song voice that is quite emetic in effect. So that you don’t have to listen to that, and so as to thus
George Carlin in 1991: We enjoy war. And one reason we enjoy it is that we’re good at it. You know why we’re good at it? Because we get a lot of practice. This country is only 200 years old, and already we’ve had ten major wars. We average a major war every twenty years, so we’re good at it! And it’s just as well we are, because we’re not very
(Hat-tip: David Kramer ) Daniel Hannan, addressing the European Parliament (emphasis added): “Mr President, let me tell you the story of two African countries. In 1978 Kenya banned the hunting of elephants and that decision was followed by an almost total destruction of elephant herds in Kenya. Round about the same time – in 1979 – Rhodesia, as it
According to Le Monde , crisis is the “Motor of Capitalism”. As I responded in Reddit/Economics (which is not nearly as Bolshie as Reddit/Politics), it is ironic that the article depicts Hank Paulson as a representative of capitalism, as he is one of the greatest anti-capitalist figures in modern history. But it is rather fitting that he is
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