Prosperity vs. Peace
Collectivism and interventionism emphasize the importance of national boundaries.
War and Foreign Policy
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American Musketeers
"But if peace meant disaster to the company, it also taught it an important lesson. A company that manufactured more rifles than it could sell to hunters, or to its own government, must seek foreign business."
How Civilization Deals with Torture States
She seems to me dubiously to assimilate international law to domestic law.Scarry has in any case given us in her excellent and provocative book an indictment of recent American policy difficult to answer.
The Siren Song of Pax Americana
"The financial burdens of hegemony are difficult to overestimate. "
The Blockade and Attempted Starvation of Germany
"Soon the women who stood in the pallid queues before shops spoke more about their children's hunger than about the death of their husbands."
The Person with the Bomb Rules
The constitutional arrangement is far from perfect. But, at least if its provisions are obeyed, there is a barrier imposed on arbitrary and secret rule by one person.
Pearl Harbor: The Seeds and Fruits of Infamy
A president faced an economic depression that wouldn’t go away, and a deeply disgruntled electorate. Not for the first or last time, the option of entering a war seemed politically appealing. How badly did FDR want a war and to what lengths was...
5. Revolutionary War Finance
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
9. The War of 1812 and Its Aftermath
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
War and Inflation: Financing the Empire
Recorded from The Mises Circle in Phoenix, Arizona, April 10th, 2010. Sponsored by James M. Rodney.
