Biographies

Delivered at the Mises Institute on 21 June 2012.

A powerful state, Butterfield said, will endeavor to portray itself as the champion of the good, locked in battle with the forces of evil.

"The most significant thing that I have noticed about conversation in America is that there is so little of it."

It is hard to escape the conviction that Say's law has stirred up a series of storms only because of its obvious political implications and consequences.

Self-made billionaire Sheldon Adelson says the secret to his success was "never knowing anything" about the businesses he entered.

A particularly outstanding feature of J.B. Say's treatise is that he was the first economist to think deeply about the proper methodology of his discipline.

David Ricardo made one vital contribution to economic thought and to the case for freedom of trade: the law of comparative advantage.

Every great European nation translated Say's Trait into its own language.

By the turn of the 19th century, the views and doctrines of Adam Smith had swept the board of European opinion.

The impacts of Mises’ life and work have been resounding now for 100 years