Mises Daily Monday: To “Give Back,” Add Real Value
Mises Daily Monday by Peter St. Onge. "Giving back" is big these days, but how can we know if we're really making a contribution that someone values?
Mises Daily Monday by Peter St. Onge. "Giving back" is big these days, but how can we know if we're really making a contribution that someone values?
In chapter 80 of Conceived in Liberty, his history of the American Revolution, Rothbard addresses modern attempts to re-frame the American Revolution as some sort of "conservative" revolution that merely preserved a way of life, and was not a radical departure from the past.
"...the deep-seated radicalism of the American Revolution goes far beyond this. It was inextricably linked both to the radical revolutions that went before and to the ones, particularly the French, that succeeded it."
Here is an interesting table comparing 9 schools of economic thought.
Mises Daily Thursday by Dale Steinreich.
In less than 20 minutes David Gordon surveys Plato, Aristotle, Stoic philosopher Zeno of Citium, Frenchman Frederic Bastiat, Franz Oppenheimer, and Albert Jay Nock.
Remember Peak Oil? Yeah, that's long over.