Biographies

Does our attitude toward elections prove that we are politically ignorant, shiftless, irresponsible, and get no better government than we deserve?

Vlad Tepes III, the man who would become the inspiration for Count Dracula, was one of the most atrocious and cruel tyrants in history.

The real legacy of Cesar Chavez is negative: forget the charisma and the hype and learn some economics.

The key step in secularizing dialectic theology, and thus in paving the way for Marxism, was taken by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831).

No one who met Jim Sadowsky could ever forget him.

Ronald Hamowy was a strong Rothbardian in his political views, and was a member of the Circle Bastiat.

No reader of these essays can fail to note one respect in which Leland Yeager resembles two quintessential Austrian economists, Mises and Rothbard.

Gore Vidal's "American Chronicle" series  proved that there was, in fact, a substantial market for skepticism about the glorious American past.

Living Economics by Peter J. Boettke merits the attention of all students of Austrian economics.

 I immediately appreciated the realism of Austrian economics, which contrasts starkly with the often wildly unrealistic assumptions of neoclassical theory.