Biographies

Rothbard was the leading student of Ludwig von Mises, an innovator in Austrian economics and libertarian political theory, and the intellectual inspiration for the Mises Institute from its founding in 1982 until his death.

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

Presented as part of the Austrian Workshop seminar series. Recorded at Pebble Hill (Auburn, Alabama) on 17 November 1997.

Roderick Long celebrates Ayn Rand's work and influence in this piece written on the centenary of her birth.

Recorded 15 January 2005 at The Trouble with Taxation Conference, Charlottesville, Virginia.

Recorded 14 January 2005 at The Trouble with Taxation Conference, Charlottesville, Virginia.

In the Paris of the 1720s, writes Sean Corrigan, there took place a duel; a contest of both wills and intellects.

Hans F. Sennholz, winner of the 2004 Gary G. Schlarbaum Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Liberty, is one of the handful of economists who dared defend free markets and sound money during the dark years before the Misesian revival.

Professor Mises had come to the United States in 1940 and joined the faculty of the Graduate School in 1945. At that time he had already published his Bureaucracy (1944) and Omnipotent Government (1944) and undoubtedly was laboring on his magnum opus, Human Action (1949) which built on its German-language predecessor Nationalökonomie.