[This article appears online for the first time and is reprinted from The Alternative: An American Spectator (February 1975), where it appeared under the title “Ludwig von Mises.”] It is said that a number of years ago, when Bill Buckley was at the beginning of his career of college-speaking, he once wrote two names on the blackboard and thereby
The Free Market 15, no. 4 (April 1997) It is the widespread view in academia that John Maynard Keynes was a model classical liberal in the tradition of Locke, Jefferson, and Tocqueville. Like these men, it is commonly held, Keynes was a sincere, indeed, exemplary, believer in the free society. If he differed from the classical liberals in some
The question of immigration has become acute in virtually all Western nations, including the United States. Here, as elsewhere, leaders of movements to limit immigration, especially from the “Third World,” often combine this with uninformed attacks on the free market, particularly on international free trade. But there is no necessary connection
No one could have admired and respected Ludwig von Mises more than did Murray Rothbard, who dedicated his magn um opus in economic theory, Man, Economy, and State , to his great mentor. Yet Rothbard did not shy away from criticizing Mises when he believed such criticism to be called for. Thus, in The Ethics of Liberty , Rothbard subjects Mises’s
I attended Roger Garrison’s lecture on the Austrian theory of the business cycle at the LSE. The auditorium was packed, probably 250-300 in the audience. To my mind, Roger’s presentation was nothing short of brilliant. Poised, witty, yet unremitting in his calm reasoning, he showed how this “oddball,” out of the mainstream theory is by far
Writes Alberto Mingardi, former summer fellow at the Mises Institute: “This was published yesterday by the Wall Street Journal Europe . I thought you may be interested in reading it.” *** Italy’s Tyranny of Labor Protection Alberto Mingardi French public sector workers are dreaming up new schemes for disrupting daily life, while unions in Britain,
The title of this talk, as some of you will know, is taken from a recent book by the heroic Russian dissident intellectual, Andrei Amalrik, Will the Soviet Union Survive to 1984 ? What is implied is not that things will suddenly go kaput in 1984 — that would be too much of a coincidence — but that, in terms of the present discussion, for the next
(Address to the Mt. Pelerin Society, Brussels, September, 1974. Previously unpublished.) The New Left of the late 1960s was an international phenomenon and one which manifested appropriately differing emphases in different countries. It is my impression that it was the American wing of the New Left that most often expressed a point of view with
From the Foreword by David Gordon ... Much of Ralph Raico’s scholarly work centers on French classical liberalism. We are thus especially fortunate to be able to publish an essay by him on one of the greatest French classical liberals of the nineteenth century, Alexis de Tocqueville. The essay appears to be an introduction to an edition, which
[This essay originally appeared as “The Theory of Economic Development and the European Miracle” in The Collapse of Development Planning , edited by Peter J. Boettke.] Among writers on economic development, P.T. Bauer is noted both for the depth of his historical knowledge, and for his insistence on the indispensability of historical studies in
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