Decline of the Great Tradition
Our institutions have conducted among themselves a grand competition for numbers — on ruinous terms.
U.S. History
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Thomas Jefferson’s Free-Market Economics
Jefferson was disillusioned by the public debt, high taxation, government spending, flood of paper money, and bank monopolies that accompanied the war.
Thanksgiving and Marginal Utility
Why is it that men become less thankful as their blessings increase? Marginal-utility theory helps us understand.
The Costs of War: America’s Pyrrhic Victories
This book is one of the most significant ever written by Denson. It contains essays that have been turned into major movies and documentaries, and influenced politics in ways no one could have expected. The thesis in brief: the warfare state is...
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Rotten from the Start: The Inherent Corruption of Central Banking in America
Presented by Tom DiLorenzo at the Mises Circle in New Orleans, 5 November 2011.
Reflections on Education
Education can regulate what intelligence one has, but it cannot give one any more.
Lincoln and Roosevelt: American Caesars
Americans will never reclaim the dream if presidents like Lincoln and Roosevelt are held up as examples of "great" presidents.
How to Do Economic History
Austrians have a different way of understanding history. For Rothbard, for example, a particular price datum is, no less than the Spanish-American War, a historical event, and its causes must be traced back to the subjective aims governing human plans and choices.
Rothbard Revises the History of the Great Depression
We now see, thanks to Rothbard's insights, that the Hoover-Roosevelt period was really a continuum.
