This article published in the Monthly Review, March 2005 , meaning this year, not a century ago: “The only solution, as difficult as this may be to contemplate at the present time, is socialism; socialism, that is, as the socialist movement always meant it to be: revolutionary, democratic, egalitatarian, environmental, necessitating mass
The audio for my lecture last week is now online: “ On the Need to Raise Taxes in Alabama. “ (See also the schedule of this series, sign up for a local alert , and see the full media page
The government created the flood —written in 1999 about a different (but similar) flood. “Ignoring science and experience, military engineers consistently marched to the tune of the “levees-only theory,” which in practice requires a huge capital and maintenance expense to build and maintain these ever-higher earth- and stoneworks to hold back the
The Huntsville Times was prompted by Bill Gates’s good comments on education to interview others on the topic, and I was among them. Note the person quoted at the end of the piece, who suggests that the solution to the public school problem is for the government to get the kids earlier (age 3) and teach them longer. The story: Virtual classroom is
In this H-net review , our book Tariffs, Blockades, and Inflation: The Economics of the Civil War , is both attacked (no surprising) and recommended (all to the good): In short, Tariffs, Blockades, and Inflation lacks historical perspective. However, I do not believe this comment will offend the authors. They show repeated contempt for historians
Jacques Chirac seems to be on the verge of waging all out war against the gravest possible threat to his country: ultra-liberalism (hint: that’s what Misesians favor). He has announced that ultra-liberalism is the “communism of our time” because it poses a threat the Euro social model in which politicians and bureacrats run people’s lives. Good
Freakonomics (William Morrow, 2005) by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner has been reviewed several times on Mises.org ( 1 , 2 , 3 ), but there are some points to add. Levitt’s coauthor Stephen Dubar has written an interesting and informative book and the title is all too accurate. Readers will be exposed to precious little economics, only the
This webpage econphd.net provides an inside look at mainstream economics. It includes information on rankings, admission standards, graduate textbooks, lecture notes ect. It would seem that the mathemization of economics is complete and there is no longer any actual economics in economics, at least in graduate training at the major universities.
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