Education

There are very few times in a student’s life when he or she can escape the drills and drudge

Was George Stigler sympathetic to the Austrian school? Lachmann doesn’t think so because Stigler was a favorite student of Knight. Austrians should have dealt with Keynes, instead they quarreled with Knight.

What policies do Austrians pursue? Those that favor the market.

The professors of tomorrow can either be free to think, research, write, and publish, without interference by the state or its proxies, or they risk becoming what Barzun calls commissars with PhDs.

Considering the state of public education, aren't vouchers a step in the right direction? Laurence Vance says no: vouchers will make the present system worse.

A few days ago, the supposedly politically independent Swedish government agency Skolverket (the Agency for Education)published a report which show

Robert Murphy critiques Steven Landsburg's call to slow the spread of AIDS through a very counterintuitive call for more promiscuity.

There is a program at the School of Journalism of Ne

If one holds to the Austrian views, writes William Anderson, teaching economics is both easier and more difficult. 

Not long after the common school movement began, a new movement appeared, writes Barry Simpson. This new movement called for compulsory attendance.

Recorded 10/15/2004 at Radical Scholarship: The Guerrilla Movement for Liberty.