Intellectuals are pro-power and anti-market. Great presidents are war presidents who glorify power. The Costs of War and Reassessing the Presidency are recommended books on this topic. The First World War was a turning point which vastly extended state power, and vastly destroyed social power.
Mill played a crucial, but inflated, role in liberalism. Rothbard did not like Mill much. Mill was a disaster on economic freedom and international issues. Mill rejected that workers and capitalists shared interests. Mill was anti-capitalist.
For two years, we have been innudated with denunciations of "corporate greed" that has supposedly created scandal and led to prosecutions of CEOs, writes Gary Galles.
Did the EU bring free trade to Europe? Not at all, says Terry Arthur. The heyday of free trade was the 100 years between the Napoleonic Wars and World War 1.
For all the talk about the triumph of capitalism, write J. Stromberg and J. Tucker, the free market has few friends in politics or the world of ideas. Thus do the writings Murray Rothbard, the leading defender of the market economy of his generation, still shock and clarify.
Gertrude Himmelfarb is an intellectual historian of great distinction. She has specialized in British nineteenth-century history; and her book on Lord Acton, her study of nineteenth-century thought on poverty,
Tzvetan Todorov’s career as a writer has taken a surprising course. A Bulgarian long resident in France, he acquired an international reputation as a structuralist literary critic.
Presented as part of the Mises Institute’s Summer Seminar Series in Auburn, Alabama, on 31 May 2004.
Grant Nülle discusses a form of outsourcing that is unproductive, costly, and warlike.
