World History

All history is partly conjectural, because our knowledge is always limited.

Food was the symbol and reality of prosperity. Food meant the good life. Food meant security, health, and happiness.

The Malthusian fallacy created the common view that economics is cold, hardhearted, excessively rational, and opposed to the welfare of people.

Recorded at Mises University 2011.

Recorded at Mises University 2011.

Jefferson writes mournfully, "What a cruel reflection, that a rich country can not long be a free one!"

There is a revolution afoot, one that is happening much more quickly than the Industrial Revolution.

A triumphant movement of Adam Smith disciples really begins only with Dugald Stewart.

Bruce Ivins had the skill, the opportunity, and the motives to single-handedly produce the crisis that the state needed, writes Floy Lilley.

Bellikoth Ragunath Shenoy was born in 1905 in the village of Bellikoth, near Mangalore, in the southern Indian state of Karnataka. He became a hugely influential proponent of Hayekian theory and policy. He is sadly neglected today.