15 Great Austrian Economists
Richard Posner, often said to have free-market sympathies, will mediate the Microsoft case. But he can't be trusted to defend property rights, says Walter Block.
Biographies
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JoAnn Beatrice Schumacher Rothbard (1928-1999)
She was Murray's "indispensable framework" and a scholar in her own right.
Max Lerner: Pilgrim in the Promised Land, by Sanford Lakoff
Sanford Lakoff admires Max Lerner greatly. As a student of Lerner's at Brandeis University in 1949, his "adulation soon became obvious and made me the butt of jokes."
Goethe on National Greatness
This year marks the 250th birthday of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the greatest of all German writers and poets and one of the giants of world literature. In his political outlook, he was also a thorough-going classical liberal, arguing that free trade and free cultural exchange are the keys to authentic national and international integration. He argued and fought against the expansion, centralization, and unification of government on grounds that these trends can only hinder prosperity and true cultural development
Mises Takes the Prize
Why the achievements of Ludwig von Mises have been unjustly overlooked by academia. (An essay by James P. Philbin.)
Wilhelm Röpke
A tribute to a hero of our times on the centenary of his birth, by Shawn Ritenour.
The Roosevelt Myth, by John Flynn
Ralph Raico points out in his incisive introduction to this fiftieth anniversary edition of The Roosevelt Myth that many take sharp criticism of FDR to constitute sacrilege against the civic religion of the United States.
