Ludwig von Mises: A Scholar Who Would Not Compromise
The fact that I could take exception to some of Mises's teaching does not make me an apostate. It should prove, instead, that the great teacher had produced students with open and critical minds.
The fact that I could take exception to some of Mises's teaching does not make me an apostate. It should prove, instead, that the great teacher had produced students with open and critical minds.
Left-wing intellectuals such as Polanyi are always weeping about the "Coca-Colaization" of the rest of the world, bemoaning the supposedly lost glories of "folk culture" in the undeveloped countries, writes Rothbard.
Newly discovered and translated article by Ludwig von Mises about Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk on the tenth anniversary of his death.
Menger's was an analytical method that began with the smallest empirical phenomena and proceeded logically from there. He called this the "empirical method."
Frédéric Bastiat reminds us of the dangers to all sides of using military force as a means of securing resources or to bring freedom to foreign peoples.
On Keynes's book has been founded a new economic church, completely furnished with all the properties proper to a church, such as a revelation of its own, a rigid doctrine, a symbolic language, a propaganda, a priestcraft, and a demonology.
For a while the postwar ideological climate seemed to be the same as during the war: internationalism, statism, adulation of economic planning and the centralized state, were rampant everywhere.
Like many others, Mises anticipated the outbreak of World War I years in advance. Unlike many others, he dreaded it.
Out of false theories of employment, money, and interest, Keynes has distilled a fantastically wrong theory of capitalism and of a socialist paradise erected out of paper money.