In addition to her shorter piece on the English Levellers, Roberta Modugno has provided this longer, footnoted piece as well, including: The Levellers were concerned with economic rights and these economic rights were a direct consequence of the right to self-ownership and included individual property rights, freedom to produce, sell, buy and
[This article is excerpted from Human Action : The Scholar’s Edition . An MP3 audio file of this article, read by Jeff Riggenbach, is available for download .] 1. Economics and Praxeology Economics is the youngest of all sciences. In the last two hundred years, it is true, many new sciences have emerged from the disciplines familiar to the ancient
“Kant on Property Rights” by Marcus Verhaegh. Verhaegh disputes the claim that Kant’s description of property rights requires government fiats. Rather, he writes, property claims in a Kantian system acquire legitimacy through an on-going process of negotiation and acceptance among private individuals. In fact, he claims, when reviewing the whole
The non-chalant tone — look at those guys in the fever swamp — they think that debt is bad, it’s fine — Or at least that’s Matt Ygelias’s position. This video contains about the same amount of economic argument:
Great Britain Goes to a Planned Economy; Lord Keynes’s Preview of Bretton Woods; The Fiscal Realism of Beardsley Ruml; Garrett on Hayek’s Road to Serfdom; Mind and Morals of Harold J. Laski; Collective Bargaining as a Social Evil; Philosophy of James F. Lincoln, Industrialis; and
Does American Business Want Free Enterprise?; A Kansas Manifesto; Book Review by Garet Garrett; Planned vs. Free Markets, by Mordecai Ezekial; British Ideas of the Cartel; and more
The Free Market 7, no. 3 (March 1989) A Free Market Breakthrough by Jeffrey M. Herbener The day before my Free Market Reader arrived in the mail, I was discussing economics with a group of businessmen. In response to a request for a book giving an introduction to free-market economics, I recommended Henry Hazlitt’s Economics in One Lesson . But
The Free Market 5, no. 12 (December 1987) This special edition of the Free Market is devoted to Henry Hazlitt Henry Hazlitt: Giant of Liberty For more than seven decades, Henry Hazlitt has taught the economics of freedom. With pathbreaking theoretical work and a unique ability to communicate with the non-economist—shown forth especially in his
Jeff Deist and Peter St. Onge discuss some of the fundamental questions about money in this electronic age. What do Menger and Mises tell us about the origins of money? What’s the difference between “money” and a “medium of exchange”? Was Hayek right about degrees of
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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.