Biographies

From An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume II. Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.

One doesn't have to read far into the works of George Orwell to discover that he had no understanding of economics whatsoever and was not personally a libertarian in the sense we have in mind when we use that word today.

The Royal Company was at last dead, stillborn, and old du Noyer's loss was the French public's gain.

Anderson's contribution to economic theory is summed up in his two books: Social Value and The Value of Money.

David Howden review Hans-Hermann Hoppe's 2009 Festschrift.

Barthélemy de Laffemas comes to our attention because of the dozens of execrable pamphlets he wrote on behalf of the mercantile system that he was

"Everyone who opposed his views, according to Laffemas, was selfish, ignorant, and/or a traitor, and should be dealt with accordingly. All who disobeyed the regulations and prohibitions should suffer confiscation of their goods as well as death."

Freethought, de Cleyre wrote, was "the right to believe as the evidence, coming in contact with the mind, forces it to believe. This implies the admission of any and all evidence bearing upon any subject."

"Do you think Alan might basically be a social climber?"—Ayn Rand

The fact is that, exactly as Mark Lilla fears, when people distrust authority in a generalized way and start thinking for themselves, often without much relevant information to guide them, they'll make many decisions that they'll later regret. But whose decisions are they to make?