War and Foreign Policy
Fleury, Fénélon, and the Burgundy Circle
For all these reasons, appealing to a monarch to impose laissez-faire from above can only be a losing strategy.
Unintended Consequences of Trade Sanctions
The bottom line is that trade sanctions create poverty.
Wealth Redistribution, Domestic and International
Problems of international development aid and the domestic welfare state. Recorded at Mises University 2010.
Louis XIV: Apogee of Absolutism
Catholic political thought had come a long way from the Spanish scholastics.
Gathering Data while Washington Burns
It should come as a monumental embarrassment to future social scientists to observe that their mainstream predecessors were worse than useless for
Under the Rule of the Cardinals, 1624–1661
Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal de Richelieu (1585–1642), considered the mass of Frenchmen simply as animals to be prodded or coerced in ways that
Japan’s Gift to FDR
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor made war inevitable. But the attack was not Roosevelt's reason for going to war. It was his excuse.
21. The Civil War
From Part I of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: “The History of Money and Bank
Prosperity vs. Peace
Collectivism and interventionism emphasize the importance of national boundaries.