Thorsten Polleit emails: Today, Murray N. Rothbard shows up in Switzerland’s most prominent newspaper, Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ), in an article titled “Dangers of the paper money system”: http://www.nzz.ch/aktuell/ wirtschaft/uebersicht/ gefahren-des-systems-mit- ungedecktem-papiergeld_1. 17034050.html Rothbard is noted as being the leading
I was reading Jeffrey Herbener’s incredibly educational introduction to The Meaning of Ludwig von Mises (which he also edited), and came across a quote he cites from Carl Menger’s Investigations into the Method of the Social Sciences that makes abundantly clear how close Menger and Mises were to each other on method, contrary to the claims of
Robert Murphy on Krugman and iPhone 5 in The American Conservative . Check out all the Keynesian and Monetarist objections in the comments. Even a TAC columnist weighed in to defend government stimulus. Walter Block also takes on Krugman’s iPhone follies, making the excellent point that what is basically Krugman’s “Obsolescent Window Fallacy” is
This young Austrian is having quite a year. In July he won LvMI’s 2012 Douglas E. French Prize, “for the student who emerges from the Mises University oral examinations with the best record, as chosen by the examining committee.” And just last week, he won the Society for the Development of Austrian Economics’ 2012 Carl Menger Essay Contest for
Ron Paul: “I’m delighted to be here for the 30th anniversary of the Mises Institute. I was delighted to help start this Institute with Lew Rockwell many years ago. Let me tell you, the work of the Mises Institute is crucial. This is important. This is more important than all political action. We have to change people’s hearts and minds, and their
The Louis E. Carabini Distinguished Lecture: Reflections on the Loss of Liberty , at the 2012 Mises Institute Supporters Summit, on October 26. My favorite moment is at 49:33 : “I guess I’ll reveal my anarchistic bona fides by saying that I agree with Lysander Spooner. As the country had the right to secede from Great Britain, we have the right
Gary North on how Rockefeller-financed Federal spooks established the mainstream academic narrative on American involvement in the World Wars. If you’re short on time, he gets down to brass tacks at 11:33 . The Carl Davis Lecture, presented at the 2012 Mises Institute Supporters Summit: “The Truth About War: A Revisionist Approach”. Recorded at
So says Peter Klein. The James M. Rodney Lecture, presented at the 2012 Mises Institute Supporters Summit: “The Truth About War: A Revisionist Approach”. Recorded at Callaway Gardens, Georgia, on 26 October 2012. Includes an introduction by Llewellyn H. Rockwell,
Woods is truly our movement’s best orator. His closing words at 18:51 are particularly stirring. The Jerry Pogue Lecture, presented at the 2012 Mises Institute Supporters Summit: “The Truth About War: A Revisionist Approach”. Recorded at Callaway Gardens, Georgia, on 26 October
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