Live blog index Doug French introduced the conference, in a room in the St. Esteban Convent in Salamanca, Spain, that just overwhelms you with its history and meaning. Our coffee was served in a hall said to be the place where Columbus actually waited to meet with Queen Isabella to find out the fate of his proposed exploration of the new world.
It’s 2009 and 14 years after Murray N. Rothbard died, and one of his last plans that he had talked about with Jesus Huerta de Soto was an international conference in Salamanca, Spain, the birthplace of economics, Gabriel Calzada, head of the Juan de Mariana Institute in Spain, pushed for this to happen this year, the 400th anniversary of Mariana’s
Live blog index There is a scene in Lawrence of Arabia in which Lawrence is presented with the white garb of an Arab sheik following his amazing rescue of a man during a long trek through the desert. He puts it on and finds a private spot and practices walking, running, bowing, and playing the part. It is the viewer’s first signal of consummated
If only the Tea Party were actually that smart, but, even so, The Atlantic makes a good case that Ron Paul is the intellectual leader of the revolt . Incredibly, the reporter actually seems to understand libertarianism and the Austrian
It’s political session, and I know this because my own neighborhood is festooned with political signs that say things like: Joe STEVENS District Attorney Mark MAYBERRY Family Judge And so on, but they do not just say this once. If you are fan of STEVENS or MAYBERRY you apparently see the need to post not just one or two sign but ten or twenty of
In his November 17, 2008, ML report, David Rosenberg writes: “With this in mind, we were fortunate to have a client mail us a book titled America’s Great Depression by Murray N. Rothbard. We think it is an absolute must-read, on the scale of Amity Shlaes’ The Forgotten Man. In this book, you will learn that the New Deal machinery was established
An interesting email just arrived from Poland: I was reading Poland’s major weekly publication “Wprost” (roughly translated “Direct”) and took note of their selection for the 2008 Person of the Year, the Polish Premier Donald Tusk. In an interview, he was asked an interesting question (I am translating from Polish): Interviewer: “In the fight with
I’m told that Ludwig von Mises is mentioned on this BBC show on the Industrial Revolution . Maybe someone can listen and comment on precisely where during the 45-minute show.
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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.
