Coke's legal-economic philosophy might be summed up in a phrase he used in Parliament in 1621: "That no Commodity can be banished, but by Act of Parliament."
"As long as the easy, attractive, superficial philosophy of Statism remains in control of the citizen's mind, no beneficent social change can be effected, whether by revolution or by any other means."
Rothbard shows that Gresham’s law was introduced not by Sir Thomas Gresham but by the “arrogant, boorish, and feisty” Sir Thomas
The Memoranum did not only denounce debasement and call for a high-valued currency, but it also enunciated "Gresham's law" that the cause of a shortage of gold coin in England was the legal undervaluation of gold.
Jeffrey Tucker interviews Mark Thornton, senior fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute, and editor of the new translation of Richard Cantillon
Rothbard’s vast published output does not exhaust his thinking and writing.
Fahrenheit 451 acknowledges that powerful impulses toward mindless conformity and suppression of deviation exist in the population itself — that, on a deep level, many, many people want to be "protected" by the state from the risk of being offended and from the necessity of thinking for themselves.
"This is firsthand experience of the truth of Mises's argument against socialism: that without market prices for factors of production, there is no intelligent or rational way to organize society."
These documents are a joyful alternative career of Rothbard’s writings and research, and as such inherently one of the most valuable (and mos
