Andrew Carnegie: An Economic Biography
Samuel Bostaph (University of Dallas) discusses his recent book, Andrew Carnegie: An Economic Biography.
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Mises Weekends: Revisiting Rothbard
On the latest episode of Mises Weekend, Jeff Deist and Matt McCaffrey discuss Murray N. Rothbard's enduring legacy.
Matt McCaffrey: Revisiting Rothbard
Jeff Deist and Matt McCaffrey discuss Murray N. Rothbard's enduring legacy, plus the new Rothbard Reader.
Murray Rothbard at 90
March 2 would have been Murray Rothbard's ninetieth birthday. His immense knowledge, creativity, and devotion to liberty are unequaled.
Carl Menger: Founder of the Austrian School
In this excerpt from his brilliant Mises: The Last Knight of Liberalism, Guido Hülsmann illustrates how Carl Menger's experience as a financial journalist led to his developing the revolutionary foundations of the Austrian school of economics.
Murray Rothbard: The Godfather of Libertarianism
A free-wheeling discussion of what Murray Rothbard was like as an intellectual, a scholar, and a person
Wilhelm Röpke (1899 - 1966)
Wilhelm Röpke died on this date fifty years ago. He was an excellent economist thoroughly grounded in a realistic view of human action and who, therefore, continually fought against the dehumanizing effects of Keynesian and mathematical economics.
Liberty, State, and Union
Bassani shows that Jefferson was a special kind of libertarian. He did not believe in government, but for one or two areas. Nor did he believe in the “union” much less the nation state. He was a radical individualist who had no use for the...
Notes and Recollections: With the Historical Setting of the Austrian School of Economics
Written between 1940 and 1941, shortly after he arrived in the United States, Notes and Recollections is in effect Mises’s pre-1940 intellectual autobiography. This work reveals how Mises developed his theories, wrote his books, lectured, and...
