Biographies

In Nock's view, the usurpation of social power by state power went hand in glove with a rise in war, intra-social conflict, arbitrary authority, indebtedness, and many other injustices.

Hazlitt popularized sound economic thinking, was a critic of Keynes, and contributed to ethical moral philosophy. Not bad for a poor fatherless boy and college dropout.

According to Say, all productive enterprises are created by individuals in society, not by the state. It is the responsibility of productive enterprise to support the continuity of families.

American essayist Albert Jay Nock celebrates the life and work of the great English sociologist and libertarian Herbert Spencer.

In this short biographical entry on Ludwig von Mises, Murray Rothbard recounts a great man's life and work and explains his significance to the world of ideas and the history of his time and ours.

The idea of private property not only agrees with our moral intuitions—it is the sole just solution to the problem of social order.

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.