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"Let's celebrate the prodigious life of Lu Mises, a life in which he fused crowning insight on how the world tackles the law of scarcity, with lifelong moral courage."

This essay by Mises reveals that he regarded Edgeworth, not Marshall, as the leading British economist of the late nineteenth century.

There is, in short national liberation (good) versus national "imperialism" over other peoples (bad). Once we get over simplistic individualism, this distinction should not be difficult to grasp.

The first libertarian intellectual, writes Murray Rothbard, was Lao-tzu, the founder of Taoism.

The hallmark of Frank A. Fetter's approach to economic theory was his "radicalism," writes Murray Rothbard.

Here is Robert LeFevre’s classic argument for a purely free society, the essay that made him a leading, if controversial, spokesman for the libertarian position on government and society.

Mises wrote his first New York Times editorial in March 1941.

American essayist Albert Jay Nock celebrates the life and work of the great English sociologist and libertarian Herbert Spencer.

Decade after decade, he fought militarism, protectionism, inflationism, every variety of socialism, and every policy of the interventionist state, writes Ralph Raico.

Antony Mueller explains that measuring the economy as a whole owes its popularity to the Cold War—that the origin of the GDP lies in the management of the war economies of the first half of the twentieth century.