A Treatise of His Own
How did a masterpiece like Man, Economy, and State come to be written? Stromberg unearths Rothbard's correspondence: "I shall try to do for Mises what McCulloch did for Ricardo."
Education
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The Role of the Intellectuals
The role of the intellectual is a perennial question. Why do they act the way they do? Why are they hostile to the free market? Is the state really virtuous and the market really vicious? Mises thought the anti-capitalist mentality was rooted in envy. He also thought our entire culture was soaked in contempt for money-making.
Human Action and Man, Economy and State in the History of Thought
Recorded at Mises University 2003.
Roosevelt’s WWII Policies of Unconditional Surrender and the Morgenthau Plan
Presented at the Mises Institute on June 17, 2003.
A Little Market, a Lot of State
England's undergraduate institutions are rife with outdated and understaffed facilities, crumbling infrastructure, and poorly compensated instructors, all consequences of deferred investment prompted by the need to meet the current expenses of accommodating the influx of new degree-takers. Grant Nülle says that this the fate of all socialist institutions. Blair's proposed reform fall far short of what is necessary.
“Free” Education and Literacy
A common view promoted by advocates of "free" or public education is that a private system would lead many children to forego an education. Literacy rates would decline, and America would slide down a slippery slope toward low economic growth and stagnation. Barry Simpson looks at the history and finds that the opposite is true.
Vouchers: Another Central Plan
Laurence Vance offers a critique of John Merrifield's school voucher proposal. If the public school system were abolished, or even rendered irrelevant, what would be the point in collecting tax money from all citizens and redistributing it to those who have school-age children? How is this any different from a Great Society redistribution scheme? In short, Merrifield's "competition" and "choice" could, in practice, amount to vast wealth redistribution and another layer of educational central planning: not choice but market-based socialism.
The Worm in the Apple: How the Teacher Unions Are Destroying American Education, by Peter Brimelow
If Peter Brimelow is to succeed in showing, as his subtitle states, that teacher unions — he has in mind principally the National Education Association — are destroying American education, he faces a preliminary task.
