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Libertarianism and the Old Right
Koch organizations are no longer shocked to see us taking different views in areas like vouchers and trade treaties. They serve one agenda with a particular style, approach, and audience, and we serve another with a different style, approach, and audience.
The Spring is Silent on DDT
The politics of the environmentalists are increasingly predictable and obvious. They oppose all forms of capitalistic innovation. Indeed, they represent a special kind of danger to the human race that socialism never did.
Friedman Contra Rothbard
In a series of posts to an Internet discussion group several years ago, David Friedman severely criticized Murray Rothbard's account of Adam Smith in his Economic Thought Before Adam Smith
The Muddied Waters of Adam Smith’s Life
James Buchan’s new book provides further evidence to support Murray Rothbard’
The Myth of Functional Finance: Mises vs. Lerner
D.W. MacKenzie recounts the sad saga of naive economists who believed that they could use fiscal policy to counter the business cycle.
Hayek’s Birthday!
May 8 marks the 1899 birth of Friedrich Hayek. Though best known as an economist, he was acclaimed for contributions in many fields.
Sowing the Seeds of the Next Crisis
Thorsten Polleit warns that one should not get carried away by wide spread euphoria.
Rothbard Makes Sense, and More
Murray Newton Rothbard (1926–1995) was one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century.
