Biographies

If Austrian economics seems daunting, just read Hazlitt.

If Keynes was such a model champion of the free society, how can we account for his peculiar comments, in 1933, endorsing, though with reservations, the social "experiments" that were going on at the time in Italy, Germany, and Russia?

Mises was not one to praise individual economists very often. But he still had his favorites.

Bob Murphy explains how he got into Austrian economics and libertarianism.

Writing about the cultural background of Ludwig von Mises, an eminent former compatriot of mine, poses some difficulties: how to present you with a world radically different from yours, a world far away, which in many ways no longer exists.

Teaching literature has changed now that the humanities have become a species of what is known as grievance studies, concerned with whether a given author is sexist or racist or classist. This is a cultural shift in education, and not for the better.

There is no other means to attain full employment, rising real wage rates and a high standard of living for the common man than private initiative and free enterprise.

Presented at Mises University 2019.

Without Rothbard Austrian economics and libertarianism would have taken a very different turn.