Biographies

Recorded 14 January 2005 at The Trouble with Taxation Conference, Charlottesville, Virginia.

In the Paris of the 1720s, writes Sean Corrigan, there took place a duel; a contest of both wills and intellects.

Hans F. Sennholz, winner of the 2004 Gary G. Schlarbaum Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Liberty, is one of the handful of economists who dared defend free markets and sound money during the dark years before the Misesian revival.

Professor Mises had come to the United States in 1940 and joined the faculty of the Graduate School in 1945. At that time he had already published his Bureaucracy (1944) and Omnipotent Government (1944) and undoubtedly was laboring on his magnum opus, Human Action (1949) which built on its German-language predecessor Nationalökonomie.

Recorded at Mises University 2004.

Lew Rockwell offers a tribute to Hans Sennholz, the first student in the United States to write a dissertation and receive a PhD under the guidance of Ludwig von Mises.

The President today, writes Adam Young, is the focus of political and increasingly social life. He is presented to the public as an all-purpose master of every issue and situation, a veritable demigod in his reputation for near omniscience and infallibility.

Thomas Szasz has long been the foremost critic of involuntary psychiatric commitment, and his many books on psychiatric tyranny have won for him a well-deserved reputation as a champion of liberty.

In his An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Murray Rothbard toppled Adam Smith from his place as the founder of modern economics. 

Under Alan Greenspan's rule at the Fed, the function of the central bank as a bailout institution has experienced a new golden age, writes Antony Mueller.