Biographies

Recorded at the Mises Institute, May 1994.

Recorded at the Reassessing the Presidency seminar; March 2004. (30:28)

Recorded at the Mises Institute, May 1994.

Ronald Hamowy discusses Hayek and the Common Law: An Assessment at the 2002 Austrian Scholars Conference.

The battle for liberty is in the end a battle over ideas, writes Jude Blanchette. If the last testament of one of the last great socialists of our time is any indication, the struggle for freedom and capitalism is indeed a hopeful one. And yet, while the world can live without the ideas of Pierre Bourdieu, it could use his sense of passion.

A tribute to Ludwig von Mises by Alfred Tella.

When we really study the action axiom, writes Robert Murphy, we see that it summarizes an incredibly complicated, and tremendously important, fact about the world. In order to succeed in the present environment, it is simply indispensable for each of us to attribute intentions and reason to other beings. To put it simply, if you want to get anywhere in life, you have to assume that other humans act.

The quest for greater realism in the social sciences: this is the core mission of Misesian scholarship in our times. At its heart this is a quest for the full truth, and even though we cannot expect to ever gain a full picture of anything here on earth, we should attempt to do so. If Misesians remain faithful to their mission, it will not fail to yield a rich harvest.

In the works of Jacobs, the order present in a well-functioning urban area emerges as the result of human action but not human design. It arises from a myriad of individuals each pursuing their own interest and carrying out their own plans, within a framework of rules that encourages peaceful cooperation over violent aggression.

In the great debates of the period, it was said that Hayek had lost to the New Economics of Keynes and his followers. It was more precisely true that the Keynesians had won not by having better argument but force of government policy. The Misesians and Hayekians of the time decided that they would fight the battle of ideas and thus sprang up a host of institutions that would continue the work of liberty, despite all political impediments.