Here is an article on Monopoly , the game by Parker Brothers, written by Ben Powell, now of San Jose State, back in February 2004. It was posted before we had a blog that permitted reader reaction. Out of the blue this morning, this email arrived to our offices, and the writer challenged us to post it. So I’m posting it. You can criticize and
Several years ago, perhaps during the mad cow scare, it became something of a trial to get beef at a restaurant that was properly cooked. To get anything less than well done, you had to order rare, and do so clearly and emphatically. I always suspected that this problem—which seems to have abatted—had something to do with health inspectors, or
After spending 20 mins trying to log in (when did life becoming nothing but a series of log ins?) I finally got to the Wall Street Journal article everyone is pinging me about, in which Mary O’Grady quotes Mises. Indeed the article opens with the following Mises quote: “It is an established fact that alcoholism, cocainism, and morphinism are
There I stood with 8 olive pits in my cheek, talking to the checkout lady at the grocery store as she waved my half-pound container of antipasto over the scanner light. All the while, I hoped she that she wouldn’t notice or ask why I sounded like I had marbles in mouth. Like many shoppers before and after, I had been standing at the olive bar
A duck gets sick in France; Britian goes nuts . Here are the number of “confirmed” cases of death so thus far . Tens of thousands worlwide? Actually 15 in 2006. Here is a thing I wrote on this
Gary North has a very nice piece today on LRC on Ed Opitz. I read his book in college, and it had an impact. The one time I met him was about 15 years ago on a weekend when I was doing some research at FEE. He practiced his French horn for several hours in the office, which is enormously charming because most brass players never pick up their
This is a fascinating review of Rothbard’s economic treatise , by Henry Hazlitt, published in National Review, September 25, 1962. He loves the book, of course, but introduces criticisms toward the end, particularly pertaining to the Rothbardian perspective on repudiating government debt, the legalization of blackmail, and the strict distinction
Web junkies have become accustom to the idea that anything Google does is glorious, so it has come as something of a shock to realize that the its takeover of Blogger has been, well, not going well. In fact, for many people, the conversion has been a calamity. Among those blogs that have converted, hundreds, perhaps thousands, perhaps hundreds of
What is the Mises Institute?
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.
