Media and Culture

Presented by David Gordon at “The Failure of the Keynesian State,” the Mises Circle in Houston, sponsored by Jeremy S. Davis.

"From the Austrian perspective, if some form of collaborative activity is involved in the creation of literature, it is still always collaboration among individuals, whereas in the Marxist view collaboration is typically understood in collectivist terms."

"The Austrian School is the most humane form of economics we know, and the most philosophically informed — hence we regard it as the most relevant to humanistic studies."

Cather's most straightforwardly economic book is O Pioneers! (1913).

Western society uses its schools and other public institutions to build an impenetrable wall of destructive social conditioning around the individual.

If composers could set still-unmatched records of productivity without copyrights while earning a living, writers could do this in an environment t

I will focus on existing and emerging possibilities for writers to earn a living in a world where no copyrights exist.

Our board consists of world-class scholars working in the libertarian tradition — a veritable who's who of Austrolibertarianism.

With iTunes U, the entire body of scholarship accumulated in the minicivilization of Mises.org can enjoy the widest possible distribution.

"It turns out that there was nothing inevitable about cultural decline. All it takes is one person to make the change."