The Virtue of Nationalism Yoram Hazony Basic Books, 2018 285 + vii pages Yoram Hazony is a thinker of great originality, and in The Virtue of Nationalism , he enables us to see nationalism in a new way. He is not a libertarian, but his way of looking at nationalism can be of great value to libertarians in understanding how our views should be
Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism Quinn Slobodian Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2018, X + 381 pp. David Gordon (dgordon@mises.com) is a Senior Fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute. Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 21, no. 3 (Fall 2018) full issue, click here. Quinn Slobodian, a historian at Wellesley
Today would have been the 90th birthday of Burt Blumert, one of the greatest personalities of the modern libertarian movement. Burt was the indispensable man behind the scenes and was a key figure in the Mises Institute, the Center for Libertarian Studies, and LewRockwell.com. He was one of Murray Rothbard’s closest friends; and when you met him,
Mr. Mark Lautman has given me permission to share the following letter: When I started reading Rothbard’s book, I gave the three-line summary to my wife. “It’s a book written by Murray Rothbard in the 1950s about libertarian economics. It’s published by the Mises Institute. Rothbard was a disciple of an Austrian economist Mises.” “Mises?” she
War with Russia? From Putin & Ukraine to Trump & Russiagate . By Stephen F. Cohen. Hot Books-Skyhorse Publishing, 2019. Xiii + 225 pages. Stephen Cohen, a renowned authority on Russia, raises a question that applies more widely than the current confrontation between Russia and the United States, vital though it is that we understand that conflict.
Alienated America: Why Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse Timothy P. Carney Harper Collins, 2019 xiv + 348 pages Timothy Carney, a researcher at the American Enterprise Institute and editor at the Washington Examiner , has a message of vital importance for supporters of the free market. This message is not, though, the only theme of his
Money and Government: The Past and Future of Economics Robert Skidelsky Yale University Press, 2018 xiv + 402 pages The title of Murray Rothbard’s Power and Market provides a useful entry to understanding Robert Skidelsky’s long and learned book. Rothbard drew a contrast between peaceful cooperation through the free market and State coercion.
JEFF DEIST: Does economics need philosophy? The idea of a school of economics having a philosophical underpinning might strike some people as odd. Why should economists care about philosophy at all? DAVID GORDON: Well, that’s a very good question. You see, what Mises held was that economics has a distinct method or way of proceeding, and he felt
[Review: Reflections on Ethics, Freedom, Welfare Economics, Policy, and the Legacy of Austrian Economics . By Israel M. Kirzner. Peter J. Boettke and Frédéric Sautet, eds. Liberty Fund 2018. Xiv + 782 pages.] Everyone interested in Austrian economics owes a great debt to the editors of the vast collection of articles by Israel Kirzner, one of the
Today would have been Murray Rothbard’s 93 nd birthday. He was an unforgettable friend, whose immense knowledge of many different fields was unsurpassed in my experience. In a lecture on the Austrian Theory of the Business Cycle, he mentioned the common objection that the expansion of bank credit might have no effect, if investors anticipated
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.