The Free Market 25, no. 1 (January 2007) When I was about 18 years old I purchased my first bit of real estate. It was a four-family apartment house in the Sheepshead Bay neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, right near the ocean. I thought that one day it would become quite valuable. It was rent controlled and the rents were extremely low, so I
The Free Market 26, no. 10 (November 2008) Writing the introduction to Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt was a labor of love for me. You know how women sometimes say to each other “This dress is you!”? Well, this book is me! This was the first book on economics that just jumped out and grabbed me. I had read a few before, but they were
Volume 19, Number 2 (Summer 1999) An Interview with Walter Block Walter Block is professor of economics at the University of Central Arkansas and chairman of the department. He is also co-editor of The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics , and his work on a wide range of theoretical and political issues has advanced the practical application
Milton Friedman died today at age 94. May he rest in peace. I don’t want to discuss the Reagan and Thatcher “revolutions” he supposedly inspired. Nor his “Free to Choose” series, his many years with the University of Chicago and the Hoover Institution, or his Nobel Prize in Economics. These will be covered, I expect, by others, and in great
[ I Chose Liberty: Autobiographies of Contemporary Libertarians • By Walter Block • Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2010 • x + 398 pages] Why is it important that we Austrolibertarians have a book of autobiographies, such as this present one? (Yes, yes, I know, Austrian economics is a positive science, while libertarianism is a normative discipline.
Gary Becker passed away on May 4, 2014 at age 83. There will be many obituaries written about this Nobel Prize winning economist, focusing on his numerous and important contributions to the dismal science. Here, instead, I will tell a more personal story, my own private interactions with my first mentor, Gary Becker. I entered the Columbia
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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.