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Murray N. Rothbard
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How does government intervene in the economy? What are the consequences? What are the motivations behind passing these interventions? The lives of the people involved explain why they do these things. Rothbard delves into the religious views of the leaders in American history to understand motivations. Schools, drink, and Sabbath laws were the
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Murray N. Rothbard
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Where did Benjamin Strong - head of the Fed - come from? Rothbard continues to reveal the individuals who shaped our world and wars. Morgan’s empire brought us the irrational and useless WWI. Foreign policy today rests upon this Morgan outlook. The Versailles Treaty was a harsh thoughtless division of lands and economies. Many powerful politicians
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Donald W. Livingston
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You can’t take Southern secession seriously because of slavery. Illinois is worth pondering because Lincoln supported the laws against blacks because he did not think that free blacks could ever mix with whites. A superior position was assigned to the white race. Lincoln meant every word. He voted against every suggested improvement for blacks. He
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Murray N. Rothbard
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Recorded at the Mises Institute, May 1994.
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Joseph R. Stromberg
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One of the problems of the American Empire is that there is a lot of empire denial going around. You cannot want to rule the world and yet say that what you value is laissez-faire economics (like National Review does). How do you distinguish empire from imperialism? In the 18 th century an empire was any large state somewhere. Imperialism
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Joseph R. Stromberg
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Recorded at the Mises Institute, May 1994.
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Hans-Hermann Hoppe
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Recorded at the Mises Institute, May 1994.
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Mark Thornton
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The Spanish and Portuguese were not very effective about colonizing the New World, despite finding gold and silver and claiming land. The London Company arrived about 1611 with indentured servants. Life expectancy was as young as twenty-one, although food supplies were better in the New World. Land was cheap and available to most immigrants. The
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Mark Thornton
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Salutary neglect of the colonies spurred innovation and abundance in a spirit of freedom. Bitterness crept into the relationship after the French and Indian War when the British kept colonialists out of certain territories and began taxing them internally and increased tariffs. The Stamp Acts were internal taxes. No taxation without