Mises Search

Thus does Thom Hartmann at the Huffington Post say that “The intellectual forefathers and mothers of the insane conservative economic policies that have brought us to where we are include Ludwig Von Mises, Freidrich Von Hayeck (sic.)...” Never mind that Mises and Hayek were the 20th century’s premier opponents of loose money and central banking

I really wanted to love Inside Job , the film that won the Academy award this year for best documentary. And it is a great film, but to see it that way you have to turn your brain “off” even as you push the “on” button on your DVD clicker. The interviews are personal and interesting. The footage of Wall Street and the offices of big players in the

A new report documents the trend . What I do find annoying about these surveys is how they focus on values instead of policies. For example, it should not matter to a libertarian what a person believes about religion or morality so long as they do not want the government to do anything about it. Of course experience suggests that there is in fact

Some insight here : While Objectivists, libertarians and conservatives strongly agree on the principle of physical property rights, the picture is much more divided when it comes to ‘intellectual property’, a catch-all phrase for several different items, including patents, copyright and trademarks. In a landmark essay by Stephan Kinsella, Against

Andy Duncan is wild for Doug French’s book : “You know you have crossed into the Austrian light when you wake up one morning and everything has become clear. From that point forward, for the rest of your life, you realise that almost every societal problem you encounter, no matter how simple nor how complex, is usually something to do with

This health site dared defend smoking, pointing out that sugar is probably far more dangerous. Fascinating. The post educated me about the anti-smoking hysteria of 1917. 80 years ago, in 1917, the nation was going through one of its periodic bouts of anti-tobacco madness. Then, as now, the focus was on children, but in 1917, “children” were

The hottest commentary of the year appeared in the Wall Street Journal: Why Chinese Mothers are Superior by Amy Chua. The story has 7,200 comments and counting, and every other outlet including the New York Times, the Washington Post, Time, and everyone else, including tens of thousands of bloggers. The author’s name yields more than one million

One of our most recent uploads is The Liberal Tradition from Fox to Keynes , edited by Alan Bullock and Maurice Shock, published first in 1957. It is an extremely inspiring book that collects the great writings and speeches of English liberals from the 18th to the 20th century. The book reminds us of the fantastic achievements of the liberal

USA Today reports Paychecks from private business shrank to their smallest share of personal income in U.S. history during the first quarter of this year, a USA TODAY analysis of government data finds. At the same time, government-provided benefits — from Social Security, unemployment insurance, food stamps and other programs — rose to a record

From the Economist : “America’s universities lost their way badly in the era of easy money. If they do not find it again, they may go the way of GM.”