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We now have Ron Paul’s book in , and I must say that it is very impressive. It is not just a campaign book. Actually it isn’t one at all. It is a world-view book, issue by issue, and very compellingly argued. I would not hesitate at all to give this to somehow who knows nothing about the libertarian point of view. It is also a manageable size.

A very nice review here . I hadn’t really thought of how this book is capable of being a kind of summary statement of political views for a generation of young activists — defining and

Brian Wesbury, chief economist at First Trust Advisors, offers in the WSJ an Austrian-sounding explanation of why (though I’m not sure of this “natural-rate = nominal GDP growth” stuff): Despite record passenger traffic, airlines are bleeding cash and going bankrupt. Food riots have cropped up around the world, Canada is paying farmers to kill

According to Lew , Ron’s new book is #1 on Amazon and will debut at #7 in Sunday’s NYT, making it the biggest selling libertarian book of all time. Or just get the whole collection for

This is a wonderful article in the Investors Business Daily: He Made Free Markets Invaluable . The author is Paul Whitfield, and, unusually in the world of journalism, he put a ton of work into this. He maps out a min-biography of Mises and explains his significance in the world today: When the Nazis stormed the apartment in Vienna, he was gone.

Robert Ekelund, famed economist and Austrian fellow traveler, has entered the Van Cliburn Amateur contest on Youtube. Here is his video. He is playing the Bosendorfer at the offices of the Mises Institute. You can also buy his book or... his CD

1. He has been awarded the Loyola College Department Chair’s Award for Excellence in Teaching Economics ; 2. The Franz Cuhel Memorial Prize for Excellence in Economic Education from the Prague University of Economics, presented to to him at the Prague Conference on Political Economy, April

See what you think of this print ad for Mises: The Last Knight of Liberalism .

President Bush and the Republicans are no better than the naive Great Society liberals of yesteryear in thinking that a new law and new government spending can accomplish glorious things here and abroad, and one of those programs was called Reading First and it generated billions in spending. Billions. I swear that the propaganda for this program

Take a look at this great clipping from the Buenos Aires newspaper from 1959, when Mises visited. This is courtesy of the Hayek Foundation , which has lots of photos I’ve not seen. (Thanks Adrian