Robert Taft and His Forgotten “Isolationism”
"It turns out that Taft was right on every question all the way from inflation to the terrible demoralization of the troops.”
"It turns out that Taft was right on every question all the way from inflation to the terrible demoralization of the troops.”
Once I understood the fundamental choice was between laissez-faire and statism, it was clear: there was no “third way.”
Mises and Schumpeter are the most famous economists trained by the older Austrian School.
The James E. Kluttz Lecture, presented at the 2012 Mises Institute Supporters Summit.
Mary Sennholz, wife of Austrian economist Hans Sennholz and friend of Margit and Ludwig von Mises, recently spoke about her long career as a writer and editor, and as a friend and colleague of many other giants of the Austrian School. We hope her next project is a biography of her husband, Hans.
Chadwick believed in incentive-based social reform. He also wrote about moral hazard problems, anticipating many insights of contemporary economics.
It was Mises's misfortune that during his life his economic and political ideas were so out of fashion. But, his legacy is lasting and strong.
Archived from the live Mises.tv broadcast, this lecture was presented by Robert Murphy at the 2013 Mises University, hosted by the Mises Institute
What did the diamond and water paradox have to do with an important Austrian tenet that reversed economic thinking?
Presented to Mr. Henry Getz. Includes remarks by Peter Klein and Lew Rockwell. Recorded at the Mises Institute on 5 June 2013.