Biographies

What inspires us about the life of Mises, writes Lew Rockwell, is not his victimhood but his triumph over evil.

While upholding the radical ideal, Rothbard combined idealism with realism, scholarship with accessibility, and boundless curiosity with commitment to truth.

As the Marxians do not admit that differences of opinion can be settled by discussion and persuasion or decided by majority vote, no solution is open but civil war.

Garrison developed over the course of his career what has come to be called capital-based macroeconomics, a full-blown Austrian alternative to mainstream macroeconomics that he laid out in his great work, Time and Money: The Macroeconomics of the Capital Structure.

In this issue of The Misesian, Patrick Newman explores the many ways that Rothbard remains relevant to current economic and political controversies. And other articles, all of which are in the Rothbardian tradition of advancing the scholarship of freedom and sound economics.

Murray Rothbard was born 100 years ago this week and his time on earth was much too short. Yet in that time he was here, he added much to the intellectual foundations of economic thinking.

In this issue of The Misesian we look at how the inflationist economy affects Gen Z and we look at what can be done to reclaim an economy based on saving, investing, and looking to the future.

This issue of The Misesian discusses that, without private property, there is no way to plan for the future, and one’s goods are always subject to confiscation from the more powerful. In other words, a world without private property is a lawless world.

Warren Harding provides a case for how lies and myths—in the name of the truth—can be centralized and become the dominant narrative for generations, shaping views on policy.

Greg Kaza reviews Brian Domitrovic's The Emergence of Arthur Laffer. Alienated from academia during the stagflation era, Laffer was able to reach policymakers by presenting his ideas in a simple way, such as with his famous napkin Laffer curve.