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Some people hang around on Mises.org to see what kind of amazing content we are making available now. Well, so for these folks, here is a wonderful thing. The Complete Writings of Thomas Paine : Volume 1 and Volume 2 . So if you dig into this, you are set for reading 2000+ pages. How’s that for x-treme content? Plus, these PDFs all have very

One of my favorite blogs on Mises.org is Copyfascism Watch because it always raises challenging questions and offers great arguments and documentation. Today, the top item concerns End User License Agreements: “One of the problems that needs to be resolved in the copyfight is the validity of licenses, which not only includes all EULAs, but

A funny and interesting review of The Revolution .

I’m really taken with this gizmo designed to change the header for Community users.

Thanks to Don Lloyd for this link to an interesting story about a British machine that modeled the workings of the British economy: A sensation when it was unveiled at the London School of Economics in 1949, the Phillips machine used hydraulics to model the workings of the British economy but now looks, at first glance, like the brainchild of a

Sometimes articles are so exasperating there is no sense in even attempting a response, but usually these don’t appear in the Wall Street Journal . Selection from Thomas Frank: What has overtaken America’s working people is not a natural disaster like “globalization,” and not even some kind of societal atavism in which countries regress

Guido Hulsmann received the following: I must congratulate you on the fine writings and historical revelations in your book on Mises-Last Knight of Liberalism . My grandfather had fought under his command in the Austro-Hungarian army in WWI. The losing side has relatively few historical texts written in English. So yours is very eloquent and

If this video doesn’t motivate you to jump on the next raft to Finland, I don’t know what will. The worst part is not that the narrator admits the country is yet another dying experiment of socialism, but that the director convinced the participants to smile and be happy about “getting by” with the little income they’re allowed to take home. One

A student who just earned his M.A. sent us this picture of his graduation cake.

The word was that Speed Racer is the most anti-capitalist movie to appear in many years , so of course I walked in the theater ready to rip apart its thematics . Well, what a disappointment. It scores no points against capitalism as a system of economics. If you consider the core institutions of capitalism as private property, consumer