Where in the World? Best Places for Your Money for 2005
Recorded at the Austrian Economics and Financial Markets conference at The Venetian Hotel Resort Casino, Las Vegas, 02-18-2005
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Taxation and Literary History, or Who Killed John Keats?
Recorded 15 January 2005 at The Trouble with Taxation Conference, Charlottesville, Virginia.
The Mises Circle: Thomas DiLorenzo
Thomas DiLorenzo discusses his book How Capitalism Saved America - The Untold History of Our Country from the Pilgrims to the Present at a
The Continuing Relevance of Menger
Menger's Principles of Economics is a remarkable book, writes Gil Guillory. Most of what is found in the great systematic treatises by Mises and Rothbard is treated in almost precisely the same way as Menger treated them in 1871.
That Insufferable “Giving Tree”
Chris Westley asks what Shel Silverstein really meant to say with his book The Giving Tree. It is bad economics leading to a dangerous political bent.
Two Very Fashionable Frauds
Two books have become almost cult classics among the academic left, and both reveal shocking ignorance of the most elementary level of economic logic. Thomas DiLorenzo explains.
Austrian on China’s Great Depression
Krassimir Petrov, an alumnus of Mises Institute programs, presents China&#
End of Another Progressive-Era Relic
Historians are fond of saying that the Progressive Era ended at the end of World War I, writes William Anderson.
5. The Wealth of Nations: Ideology, Religion, Biology, and Environment
Ideological factors, especially comparative religions, are considered. Until 1500, China was the most developed region on the globe. Confucianism has no promise of an afterlife. There are no miracles for them. They are realistic and rational. Confucius is not a god or prophet. He is revered as a great teacher. His teachings are compatible with capitalism.
Do Capitalists Have Superior Bargaining Power?
The "superior bargaining power" argument has always been the most important argument on behalf of unionism and of all the legislative privileges that unions enjoy. Thomas DiLorenzo points to Mises's demolition of the idea.
