Grab some tootsie rolls, charge the Alamo, read some Keats, but more importantly drink a beer for Carl Menger’s birthday. Some friends and I have been taking nominations for the most Mengerian meal and the most Mengerian film. Any suggestions? Current Nominations for films: A. Cars, the town’s profit drops off because it’s too general a production
Happy Birthday today to Murray N. Rothbard who would have been 81 if my calculations are correct. And happy early birthday to Gustave de Molinari who would be really old tomorrow.
In this article, Daniel J. D’Amico reviews Changing the Guard: Private Prisons and the Control of Crime which was edited by Alexander Tabarrok. Volume 21, Number 2 (2007) D’Amico, Daniel J. “ Changing the Guard: Private Prisons and the Control of Crime , Alexander Tabarrok, ed..” Journal of Libertarian Studies 21, No. 2 (2007):
Both the Austrian school of economics and the Virginia school of political economy have been staunch defenders of classical liberalism and free markets. But their commonalities run deeper, including an emphasis on rules and institutions, subjectivism, and the power of ideas. The Foundation for Economic Education is pleased to announce “From Vienna
Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 18, no. 2 (Summer 2015) Neither Carl Menger, Ludwig von Mises, Murray Rothbard, nor Israel Kirzner are found within the bibliography of David Skarbek’s latest book The Social Order of the Underworld: How Prison Gangs Govern the American Penal System published by Oxford University Press. In fact, no citations
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The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard.
Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.