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Posted here : So, these Austrian guys, from what I remember, are uber-free market capitalists and are a strong intellectual foundation for the modern day Libertarian movement. The guy who was giving the lecture was a prominent economist of the Austrian school himself, he’s called Murray Rothbard. The talk is really lively and entertaining and I

From the newly refurbishment Markets and Data page on Mises.org:

This stuff must be driving the elites nuts.

You know, socialist governments are just so sweet. They pay people to take vacations, and surely no one can complain about that! And just look at the US in this chart : not a single paid vacation day is offered to Americans, which surely accounts for some sort of national pathology. < /Sarcasm > This Economist snippet is very interesting the way

A former student blogs about Hans Hoppe

This morning, the New York Times headlines a scoop on how the Justice Department has shifted its energy from prosecuting race-oriented civil rights cases to religious-oriented civil rights case. I was prepared to think: here we go again with unjust laws being used to privilege groups based on their political affiliations. The story seemed to be a

I think this might be the last of the Chodorov books available to be put online. If not, please let me know. In any case, this is a treasure: One is a Crowd . It collects his most profound essays on individualism, many of which I hope to see as Daily Articles. I was riveted by his biographical essay on the meaning of his own Jewishness to his life

John Derbyshire explains why he is tempted by Ron Paul’s views on government but must ultimately reject them. His argument seems to be that if government is small, it’s fine to favor small government. But if it is vast and imperial, we should favor that too. Doesn’t this reduce “conservatism” to nothing but status quo cheering of the state? I

A new survey, reported by the Telegraph , shows that nearly every teen on the planet is a music pirate, and the reality is slowing dawning on recording company execs that they need to find a way to serve the consumer rather than depend the government to protect their state-enforced