Capitalism

As war rages in the Middle East, we are reminded of what Mises wrote in 1949 on warfare and its awful effects.

While philosophy is a discipline that has been hijacked by the Left, once in a while a philosopher comes along and surprises us.

The state is held together by violence and nothing else. There is no such thing as "the social contract." But even violence cannot make a state last past its time, as we saw with the USSR.

Economists and political elites fondly claim that economic growth is due to increased technological knowledge. That is only partly true.

While Graham Priest seems to have "rescued" Marxism from the labor theory of value, he cannot rescue Marxism itself.

While philosophy is a discipline that has been hijacked by the Left, once in a while a philosopher comes along and surprises us.

Crack-Up Capitalism will be of interest to many readers of The Austrian because of what it says about Murray Rothbard; and for th

In his new book, 'Crack-up Capitalism,' Quinn Slobodian sloppily attacks Rothbard's views on market freedom. But in his efforts to attack Rothbard generally, Slobodian also gets Rothbard wrong on slavery, on Indians, on war crimes, and more. 

The state is held together by violence and nothing else. There is no such thing as "the social contract." But even violence cannot make a state last past its time, as we saw with the USSR.

Economists and political elites fondly claim that economic growth is due to increased technological knowledge. That is only partly true.