World History

It’s somewhat striking that modern libertarian advocates of patent rights seem bl

William Anderson today talks about America’s pockets of socialism and how they collapse when tested

USA Today reports on Jan Grzebska, a polish worker who awakened from a 19-

It seems that Poles, much like the ancient Spartans, have a choice to end up either with a shield or upon it.

Recorded at Mises University 2007.

Every four years, as the November presidential election draws near, I have the same daydream: that I don’t know or care who the president of

In the 30’s and 40’s when the world was young and naive, Freud and his fellow psychotherapists had legions of followers.

Mises was in his prime from 1920-1934 while he was 39-53 years old. Three main areas in these years were certain people, his intellectual contributions, and other work.

Mises’ socialist calculation argument reshaped the debate about socialism. It was not true that socialism could work and could use the same techniques as capitalism. The book Socialism had a decisive impact on Hayek and other rising economists.

Mises was not surprised by WWI, 1914-1920.  He was posted on the Northern Front of the Austro-Hungarian towns as a Lieutenant in an artillery unit.