Biographies

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.

This was the first book on economics that just jumped out and grabbed me. I had read a few before, but they were boring. Very boring.

Hamiltonian mercantilism is essentially the economic and political system that Americans have lived under for several generations now.

I congratulate the Ludwig von Mises Institute for bringing back into print Hayek's writings on business cycles.

Many laboring in the thriving cottage industry of Hayek biographers, critics and interpreters have commented on the transition from a "Hayek I" to a "Hayek II" that began in the late 1930s, portraying it as almost wholly an intellectual re-orientation and change in research interests. Few, if any, have recognized the radical alteration in analytical procedure and rhetorical style that characterized this transformation.

When I reached page 222 of Vindicating Lincoln, I almost threw the book across the room. There I read, "First, the latest iterations of European philosophy during the antebellum period

Men have, in other words, a right to secede from a state they deem immoral, for whatever reasons.