Do you ever watch the business news and think: what would Murray Rothbard say about this? He remained a news junky all his life, even while working on his grand scholarly treatises. He was no academic snob; he believed, like Mises, that economics was the business of everyone. It is in this book that you find his running commentary on all the
This collection of essays and articles provides a small sampling of Flynn’s work, as well as a look at some of the great themes that animated the Old Right. The articles and essays in this volume were chosen to highlight Flynn’s advocacy of limitations on the intrusive, interventionist state, and the disastrous consequences of allowing those
In perusing the essays in this volume, one reads over and over of Rothbard’s enthusiasm, his optimism, his zest for life, and especially his sense of humor. He was an enthusiast for many things—Austrian economics, libertarianism, politics, chess, German Baroque church architecture, jazz, and watching sports. He was never depressed—always
Henry Hazlitt confronted the rise of Keynesianism in his day and put together an intellectual arsenal: the most brilliant economists of the time showing what is wrong with the system, in great detail with great rigor. With excerpts from books and articles published between the 30s and 50s, it remains the most powerful anti-Keynesian collection
The second volume of Bettina Bien Greaves’s complete bibliography of Mises. It tells who has been writing about Mises, where, and what they had to say. Using this book is a useful way to track the progress of the Austrian School since the founding of the Mises
A definitive defense of the methodological foundations of Austrian economics. Hoppe sets the praxeological view (economics as a purely deductive science) against positivism, while taking the critics of the Austrian approach head on. Hans-Hermann Hoppe rests his argument on the Kantian idea of the “synthetic apriori “ proposition, thereby expanding
Una defensa definitiva de los fundamentos metodológicos de la economía austriaca. Hoppe opone el punto de vista praxeológico (la economía como ciencia puramente deductiva) al positivismo, al tiempo que se enfrenta frontalmente a los críticos del enfoque austriaco. Hans-Hermann Hoppe apoya su argumentación en la idea kantiana de la proposición
The Free Market 13, no. 11 (November 1995) Copy Japan! was the cry of the 1980s. That country, economically speaking, appeared to have it all: an industrial policy that knew good and bad investments before markets themselves did, a disciplined workforce, and, most of all, an unshakable banking system in which everyone had confidence. Surveying
The Free Market 13, no. 11 (November 1995) Since October 1993, we have lived through the biggest buying spree of firearms in the history of the U.S. It began just before the passage of the Brady Bill and has yet to die down. And the boom in sales will continue so long as members of the governing elites are infatuated with the prospect of gun
The Free Market 13, no. 11 (November 1995) In the story of Rumpelstiltskin, an evil dwarf saves the life of a king’s bride by spinning flax into gold. But the price is high for performing this seeming miracle. She must give the dwarf her first-born child. The story could be an allegory for the “micro-credit” movement, the current enthusiasm of
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