For the foreseeable future, war between Armenia and Azerbaijan will be on the table, occasionally turning hot, just as it has in the last weeks. This conflict has no peaceful solution possible other than the one offered by Ludwig von Mises. This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon. Narrated by Millian Quinteros. Original
The Lou Church Memorial Lecture, sponsored by the Lou Church Foundation. Recorded at the Mises Institute on March 23, 2019. Includes an introduction by Joseph T. Salerno. The Austrian Economics Research Conference is the international, interdisciplinary meeting of the Austrian School, bringing together leading scholars doing research in this
It is broadly accepted that out of Enlightenment thinking came many of the “goods” of our society; goods economic, political, and social. Goods ranging from the material wealth and the technology we enjoy to classical liberalism and libertarianism. It is on the latter that I will focus. An exhaustive discussion of the connection of Enlightenment
Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 22, no. 2 (Summer 2019) full issue. ABSTRACT: This Lou Church Memorial Lecture given at the AERC in March 2019 focuses on the outcomes of the Enlightenment: reason, the individual, equality, property rights, the separation of church and state, science and politics freed from religious dogma; but also the
“All of my work has revolved around the central question of human liberty.” So writes Murray Rothbard as the first sentence of the preface of The Ethics of Liberty . Rothbard has written and spoken on many topics, much broader than libertarianism, yet his work revolved around this central question. As Hans Hoppe puts it, in addition to being a
[ This lecture was presented on July 18, 2020 at the 2020 Mises University . ] The year 2020 is not passing quietly. We are witnessing events unthinkable even a few months ago: keep your antisocial distance, wear a mask when entering a bank, follow the arrows on the floor of the supermarket, all sporting events cancelled, homeschooling—even for
Listen to the Audio Mises Wire version of this article. “The right of self-determination in regard to the question of membership in a state thus means: whenever the inhabitants of a particular territory, whether it be a single village, a whole district, or a series of adjacent districts, make it known, by a freely conducted plebiscite, that
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