Songs from the Mises-Kreis from interwar Austria, with lyrics by philospher Felix Kauffman Lawrence W. Fertig: “The Genius of Mises’s Insights” Gottfried Haberler: “Reminiscences of Mises’s Private Seminar” F.A. Hayek: “A Tribute to Ludwig von Mises” and “A Tribute to Hayek by Ludwig von Mises” Henry Hazlitt: “Salute to Von Mises: For 92 Years He
The Free Market 26, no. 3 (March 2005) When Murray N. Rothbard (born 1926) died ten years ago, on January 7, 1995, he merited a headlined obituary in the New York Times, and many other tributes in that first sad and shocking week. Later a book appeared, and also special issues of journals and tributes of every sort. His memorial service in New
Robert Wenzel reports: Ralph Nader is out with a new book ,Unstoppable: The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State . The Washington Times reports : Among the “convergers,” he includes people “who call themselves conservatives, Libertarians, liberals, progressives, Republicans, Democrats, independents, Third Partiers,
Writes Luigi Pirri: We are happy to inform you that the Italian translation of Economic Science and the Austrian Method is now available thanks to Libreria San Giorgio. Here’s the link: Scienza economica e metodo austriaco [ Also here
2014’s Mises University concluded last Saturday evening following a full week of seminars, lectures, and many opportunities to work with Mises faculty and fellow students to discuss, learn, and plan for the future. Tom Woods kicked off the week with his Sunday-night talk “ The Role of Austrian Economics in the Liberty Movement ” in which he
Students began to arrive Sunday afternoon and by 5 pm, the Mises Institute was filled with students from around the nation, and around the world. Everyone had plenty to talk about. Dinner was served at 6 pm, and our faculty members were sure to sit with the students so our students could get to know them and ask them questions. At 7 pm, everyone
In addition to her shorter piece on the English Levellers, Roberta Modugno has provided this longer, footnoted piece as well, including: The Levellers were concerned with economic rights and these economic rights were a direct consequence of the right to self-ownership and included individual property rights, freedom to produce, sell, buy and
[This article is excerpted from Human Action : The Scholar’s Edition . An MP3 audio file of this article, read by Jeff Riggenbach, is available for download .] 1. Economics and Praxeology Economics is the youngest of all sciences. In the last two hundred years, it is true, many new sciences have emerged from the disciplines familiar to the ancient
“Kant on Property Rights” by Marcus Verhaegh. Verhaegh disputes the claim that Kant’s description of property rights requires government fiats. Rather, he writes, property claims in a Kantian system acquire legitimacy through an on-going process of negotiation and acceptance among private individuals. In fact, he claims, when reviewing the whole
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