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The following arrived in my inbox: I am glad about the publication of Hülsmann’s book. It has a delightful prose and shows mastery in the domain of relevant literature as well as historical details taken from Mises’ personal archive I think. I also regret that the book had been published without some valuable references contained in the 2003 draft

The last few days, I’ve seen so many things on Mises.com that I wanted to blog here, but there’s really way too much: the best thing is to get over there now and get involved in what is turning out to be a wonderful conversation about liberty and economics. In any case, I do want to draw attention to this post and this picture: one of six Mises

The new issue of Chronicles contains the usual odd mix of anti-statism and statism blended into a strange brew that recalls the Free Silver Populism of the late 19th century (down with taxes and up with inflation! Down with Wall Street and up with protection! ). There are good articles, such as Doug Bandow’s attack on the government census, and

David Veksler has a blog on Mises.com in which he details the technology behind Mises.org/com. It makes for great reading.

Please read the descriptions here and here , if only so you know what Garrett achieved with these two works, which, for reasons I cannot comprehend, were lost to history. 

A great mystery to me is why Garrett’s novels aren’t better known, and, indeed, seemed to have vanished as a cultural presence, even within the libertarian movement. It is something of a miracle that we were able to publish them at all, and bring them before the public anew. I finally found a clue to a missed opportunity here in John Chamberlain’s

By popular demand .

How did the Mises Institute come to be the publisher of Mises: The Last Knight of Liberalism ? Clearly a book of this level of significance, one might suppose, would be published by the likes of Chicago, or Oxford, or Cambridge. How and why did we end up doing it “in house,” so to speak? It’s a fascinating story that gets to the heart of the

Today the CD called “In Rainbows” by Radiohead (a British rock band) goes on sale, and the sales figures will provide an exhibit in the relationship between free downloads and retails sales. the New York Times covers the issue here , but I think we all know what the results of this little experiment will be. CD sales will be amazing. Now,

Brian Doherty writes that the Ron Paul movement is the most exciting development in libertarian politics in a century, or maybe ever.