Bryan Caplan recently blogged about “the awful” John Stuart Mill, calling him ”shockingly muddled.” Rothbard, more than perhaps any other scholar, exposed Mill’s muddleheadedness and its likely roots. His verdict on Mill was that he was a “woolly minded man of mush” and his philosophy “a vast kitchen midden of diverse and contradictory
In his recent wonderful book, Classical Liberalism and the Austrian School , Ralph Raico gives Eugen Richter (1830-1906), the neglected hero of authentic German liberalism, his due. As I read the chapter, I kept feeling as if I was reading about Ron Paul. Just as Ron Paul has been “Dr. No” in Congress, Richter was a veritable “ Herr Nein ” (or
In the first chapter of Classical Liberalism and the Austrian School , Ralph Raico considers the connection between Austrian economics and laissez-faire. For the most part, the early Austrian economists Menger and Bohm-Bawerk, stuck to pure theory, and did not venture much into advocacy. Just how liberal they were is a fascinating question that
A message on behalf of Professor Gerard Casey: “Would the person who emailed Gerard Casey in early March concerning political options for libertarians and who didn’t receive a reply, please resend his original message. The original message was inadvertently
What is “ The Secret To Germany’s Low Youth Unemployment “? Apprenticeship programs, says NPR. Absolutely no mention of the fact that Germany has no statutory minimum wage as of yet (although Merkel wants
Join Walter Block on Friday, May 4 at 7pm Eastern for a private webinar on Free Market Environmentalism . Dr. Block writes: All too often free enterprise is blamed for environmental problems. I will demonstrate that the real problem is statist takeovers of private enterprise and violation of private property rights. Examples to be discussed: air
Austrian economist John Cochran was interviewed for “La Escuela Austriaca desde Adentro” (The Austrian School from Inside), Vol. III edited by Adrián Ravier, which is scheduled for publication later this year. Here is that interview. Dr. John P. Cochran is Emeritus Dean-School of Business and Emeritus Professor of Economics at Metropolitan State
In a Supreme Court of India case concerning that country’s tyrannical Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act , the dissenting judge, S. H. Kapadia a judge cited Rothbard: Mr. Murray N. Rothbard, an eminent educationist and Professor in Economics, in his Book “Education: Free and Compulsory” [1999, Ludwig von Mises Institute,
John Aziz has posted “ A Critique of the Methodology of Mises & Rothbard .” He objects to Mises’ statement that: Our statements and propositions are not derived from experience. They are not subject to verification or falsification on the ground of experience and facts. by averring: This is completely wrongheaded. All human thought and action is
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