Biographies

Hamiltonian mercantilism is essentially the economic and political system that Americans have lived under for several generations now.

I congratulate the Ludwig von Mises Institute for bringing back into print Hayek's writings on business cycles.

Many laboring in the thriving cottage industry of Hayek biographers, critics and interpreters have commented on the transition from a "Hayek I" to a "Hayek II" that began in the late 1930s, portraying it as almost wholly an intellectual re-orientation and change in research interests. Few, if any, have recognized the radical alteration in analytical procedure and rhetorical style that characterized this transformation.

When I reached page 222 of Vindicating Lincoln, I almost threw the book across the room. There I read, "First, the latest iterations of European philosophy during the antebellum period

Men have, in other words, a right to secede from a state they deem immoral, for whatever reasons.

Recorded at Mises University 2008.

The Frederick L. Maier Lecture, recorded at Mises University 2008.

Solzhenitsyn had enough courage to equate socialism and Nazism as equally evil and morally reprehensible.