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History is only a tiresome repetition of one story. Persons and classes have sought to win possession of the power of the state in order to live luxuriously out of the earnings of others.

His emphasis on property, capital, entrepreneurship, and above all, his commitment to human action and not government action, makes his long-forgotten work on economics worthy of a revival.

"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.