The Free Market 26, no. 9 (September 2005) [Originally written as an introduction to For A New Liberty] There are many varieties of libertarianism alive in the world today, and they owe a great debt to the work of Ludwig von Mises. His top American student was Murray N. Rothbard, and Rothbardianism remains the center of its intellectual gravity,
[ Originally published September, 2011. ] Several years ago, the police entered the office of a young professor at a reputable university and arrested him for an online crime. They took the professor away, booked him, and then offered him a deal: admit guilt and get off easy. The professor said to the few people to whom he was permitted to speak
[ Originally published August 02, 2003 .] For today’s generation, Hitler is the most hated man in history, and his regime the archetype of political evil. This view does not extend to his economic policies, however. Far from it. They are embraced by governments all around the world. The Glenview State Bank of Chicago, for example, recently
[Originally published April 29, 2004.] What is and what is not free trade is a source of unending confusion, as the new World Trade Organization ruling on US cotton demonstrates. It’s a good thing to have the US cotton subsidy racket receive a thorough thrashing, even if at the hands of an unnecessary and objectionable body such as the WTO. If it
[First published April 20, 2005.] Politics, like war, robs words of their meaning. This is especially true of the language of economics. For example, economists know what investment means and that it’s good for the economy; but the government uses investment to mean its profligate spending projects which are, of course, harmful to the economy. In
[ Originally published May 18, 2006. ] I’m beginning to think that the epithet “consumerism” is just another word for freedom in the marketplace. It’s true that the market is delivering goods, services, and technological advances by leaps, day after day. People claim that they are so inundated with techno advances that they don’t want any more.
[ Editor’s note: As we face another so-called government shutdown, some may recall that we’ve been down this road before. In this 1996 article , Lew Rockwell explains that government “shutdowns” are neither as unpopular, or as troublesome, as the media and Washington politicians assume. ] According to official history, the 104th Congress doomed
[ Esta charla se impartió en el Círculo Ron Paul-Mises del Instituto Mises 2018 en Lake Jackson, Texas ] Hay una crisis, y solo usted, y personas como usted, pueden sacarnos de ella. ¿Qué es esta crisis? Por un lado, la orden estatista está colapsando a nuestro alrededor. América está sumida en una guerra inútil en Afganistán. Una política
JEFF DEIST: Un tema que se discutió recientemente en nuestra Cumbre de Patrocinadores es si nosotros estamos ganando o perdiendo. Entonces, dos preguntas: ¿Quién es “nosotros” y estamos ganando? LEW ROCKWELL : Bueno, “nosotros”, fundamentalmente, somos todos los que creemos en la civilización, quienes se oponen a lo que está sucediendo desde la
Cuando conocí a Ludwig von Mises, era exactamente como lo había imaginado: amable, brillante, digno, bien educado y vestido, un caballero de lo que Murray Rothbard llamó «un mundo más viejo y mejor». Su esposa, Margit, había sido una actriz, y ella tenía gran belleza, inteligencia y presencia también. Un genio, Mises fue el mayor economista del
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