Biographies

Recorded at the Ludwig von Mises Institute, Auburn, Alabama; 5-6 February 1999.

DiLorenzo identifies the inception of a basic and malign influence, economic nationalism, on American history.

These four novels are of definite ideological interest to libertarians

1996 Mises Institute Supporters Summit, San Francisco, California; February 9-10, 1996.

Many people were outwitted by Madoff. Many more people are today being outwitted by the government and its central bank. And it will all end in disgrace and disaster, only on a far, far grander scale.

Tragically, it is in the nature of government, when its failures are exposed, to claim that if only it had more power it could have performed its duties in the manner it had promised.

DiLorenzo also wants to dismantle "government's Hamiltonian monopoly on money," which would in itself be a major setback to despotic government.

Folsom places great emphasis on Roosevelt's character, and the president comes off very poorly indeed.

We are once again in a situation where the public and the economics profession have rushed to judge capitalism as the source of periodic and severe crises.

For until Rothbard's work is carefully studied by every advocate of liberty, the value of his contributions to the libertarian system cannot be fully appreciated and, moreover, the unity and true historical context of libertarianism will not even be fully grasped.