James Watt: Monopolist
Boulton and Watt's refusal to issue licenses allowing other engine makers to employ the separate-condenser principle clearly retarded the development and introduction of improvements.
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A Book that Changes Everything
No, the authors are not really Austrian, and I'm not even sure that they can be called libertarians, but they understand the competitive process in ways that would make Hayek and Mises proud.
Yankee Confederates: New England Secession Movements Prior to the War Between the States
Sponsored by the Mises Institute and held at the College of Charleston in South Carolina; 7-9 April 1995.
Secession and the Moral Compact
Sponsored by the Mises Institute and held at the College of Charleston in South Carolina; 7-9 April 1995.
How to Secede in Business Without Really Leaving: Evidence of the Substitution of Arbitration for Litigation
Sponsored by the Mises Institute and held at the College of Charleston in South Carolina; 7-9 April 1995.
Was the Union Army’s Invasion of the Confederate States a Lawful Act?
Sponsored by the Mises Institute and held at the College of Charleston in South Carolina; 7-9 April 1995.
Does Law Require Legislation?
Rather than accept either administrative law or legislation, Leoni calls for a return to the ancient traditions and principles of "judge-made law" as a method of limiting the State and insuring liberty.
Courts and Congress: America’s Unwritten Constitution, by William J. Quirk
Courts and Congress defends a revolutionary thesis. If asked, who has the final say in our government on the meaning of the Constitution, most people would say, the Supreme Court.
New Deal or Raw Deal? How FDR’s Economic Legacy Has Damaged America, by Burton Folsom, Jr.
Readers of The Mises Review will not be surprised to learn that Folsom considers the New Deal a failure. Nevertheless, even those already familiar with such books as John T. Flynn's The Roosevelt Myth will find Folsom's book valuable.
Rescuing Justice from Equality
"Those of libertarian inclinations tend not to hold it unfair for those with superior talents to benefit from them."
