Pictures of the Socialistic Future • Eugen Richter • Trans. Henry Wright • LvMI, 2010 • 160 pages. This review originally appeared on CobdenCentre.org . If someone gave me a gold sovereign for every time in my life I had heard a variation on the following phrase, then in the words of Private James Frazer , from Dad’s Army , I would now be an
Ethics of Money Production • By Jörg Guido Hülsmann • Auburn, AL: Ludwig von Mises Institute • Xi + 280 pages. In these times of Robert Zoellick , the president of the World Bank, calling for a return to the gold standard, it becomes necessary for us to examine whether we can trust a nascent world government to provide us with sound money and an
The world center of gravity of the Austrian-economics movement has long been the United States, especially since Ludwig von Mises arrived there on August the 3rd, at the age of 58, in a turbulent 1940. The 1998 Spanish publication of Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles , by Jesús Huerta de Soto — followed by the English translation in 2006 —
[The Cobden Centre, May 2, 2011] If you believe in a Creator, then you must acknowledge that He (or She) possesses an incredible sense of humor. Without this, how do you explain Iceland? Fortunately for us, and particularly perhaps for the Irish, the Greeks, and the Portuguese, this deific challenge is detailed gloriously in the new book, Deep
Originally published by the Cobden Centre, May 12, 2011 The remarkable thing about being an aspiring Rothbardian is that no matter how much Rothbard you read, the next virgin Rothbard book on your reading list is always a superb surprise. The twists and the turns on the route are remarkable, though they are almost always consistently within the
The Cobden Centre, May 16, 2011. When the bestriding colossus Murray N. Rothbard departed this life, he left the rest of us with the hallowed gifts of his thoughts, his books, and his ideas (as well as an occasional secret desire to wear bow ties), and the happily reverberating sound of that anarchic cackle. However, to those few — those lucky few
The Mystery of Banking • By Murray N. Rothbard • Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2008 • 298 pages. This review was first published at the Cobden Centre. If What Has Government Done To Our Money? is an hors d’oeuvre, then The Mystery of Banking is the main appetizer in our quest to understand how the current global financial crisis arose. Far meatier
This is going to be tricky to do from a hillside in Cornwall, with a flaky mobile connection and an iPad with a one-letter-at-a-time keyboard. However, it’s pouring down with rain this August morning, so let’s examine the real sickness at the heart of British society, which is the constant-inflation policy of the British government. This
Back in 1998, I was working in the filthy world of trade. I’d received this book from Mises.org one morning and had to wait until lunchtime before I could read it. I then sat in my car in a dreary supermarket car park and opened it up. It took less than an hour to get through. However, the clarity, the penetration, the directness, the sheer thrill
This is a transcript of Jeff Deist’s interview with Andy Duncan on Mises Weekends. Jeff Deist: Ladies and Gentleman, welcome to Mises Weekends . I’m your host, Jeff Deist, and I’m very happy to be joined by Andy Duncan. Andy, how are you this evening in the UK? Andy Duncan: Well, it’s very nice to be with you again, Jeff. JD: Andy, I’d like to get
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