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Murray Sabrin's Memoir: From Liberal Democrat to Libertarian Running for Governor of New Jersey

BiographiesBook ReviewsMedia and CulturePoliticsU.S. History

11/17/2023Mises Media
Murray Sabrin has a long history with the Austrian movement and is one of two people who had Murray Rothbard on his PhD committee. He talks with Bob about his memoir, From Immigrant to Public Intellectual: An American Story .
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Jeremy Bentham: From Laissez-Faire to Statism

BiographiesFree MarketsInterventionism

02/25/2023Mises Daily Articles
Bentham began as a devoted Smithian, but over time he became more and more statist.
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Ferdinando Galiani, an Italian Precursor to the Austrians

BiographiesFree MarketsGlobal EconomyHistory of the Austrian School of Economics

01/03/2023Mises Daily Articles
According to Galiani, interest equalizes present and future money. It is a means to compensate for the palpitations of the heart that a creditor must endure until the money is returned.
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The Decline and Fall of Gorbachev and the Soviet State

BiographiesOther Schools of ThoughtPhilosophy and Methodology

08/30/2022Mises Daily Articles
The people of the USSR rightly considered Gorbachev to be just another Communist Party hack. His "reforms" were only expedient measures designed to preserve communism.
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The Sudden Emergence of Tom Paine

BiographiesU.S. HistoryPolitical Theory

08/03/2022Mises Daily Articles
"Paine not only laid bare the roots of monarchy, but provided a brilliant insight into the nature and origins of the State itself."
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Garet Garrett: Far Forward of the Trenches

BiographiesFree MarketsU.S. History

08/01/2022Mises Daily Articles
Garrett wanted his government to mind its own business. This is because he wanted Americans to be able to mind their own business without being taxed, conscripted, or killed in other people's causes.
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John Lilburne: The First English Libertarian

BiographiesFree MarketsWorld History

07/30/2022Mises Daily Articles
Lilburne's courageous campaigns for liberty resulted in his spending much of his life in prisons.
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Why Murray Rothbard Is a Great Economist

BiographiesAustrian Economics Overview

07/28/2022Mises Media
A brief biography of Rothbard and his important works, and a survey of some of his contributions to economics.
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John T. Flynn and the Myth of FDR

BiographiesThe FedU.S. History

07/19/2022Mises Daily Articles
Roosevelt needed the war and wanted the war, and the war came.
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