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I - Introduction A Statement of the Concept Positivism and the Charge of Tautology Professor Samuelson and “Revealed Preference” Psychologizing and Behaviorism: Twin Pitfalls A Note on Professor Armstrong’s Criticism II - Utility Theory Ordinal Marginal Utility and “Total Utility” Professor Robbins’s Problem The Fallacy of Indifference The

Introduction Why The Welfare State? Yankee Postmillennial Pietism Yankee Women: The Driving Force Gradual Secularization of Postmillennial Pietism Yankee Women Progressives The New Deal The Rockefellers and Social Security Notes   Introduction Standard theory views government as functional: a social need arises, and government, semi-automatically,

The Individual’s Education Formal Instruction Human Diversity and Individual Instruction The Parent or the State? Children’s Associations Compulsory vs. Free Education Compulsory Education in Europe Fascism, Nazism, and Communism Compulsory Education in the United States Arguments For and Against Compulsion in the United States The Goals of Public

[This foreword to The Theory of Money and Credit by Mises (1912) was originally published in the 1981 Liberty Fund Edition of Mises’s book.]       Ludwig von Mises’s The Theory of Money and Credit is, quite simply, one of the outstanding contributions to economic thought in the twentieth century. It came as the culmination and fulfillment of the

This article was a keynote address given at a conference entitled Asclepius At Syracuse: Thomas Szasz, Libertarian Humanist . Thomas Szasz is justly honored for his gallant and courageous battle against the compulsory commitment of the innocent in the name of “therapy” and humanitarianism. But I would like to focus tonight on a lesser-known though

In recent years, economists have invaded other intellectual disciplines and, in the dubious name of “science,” have employed staggeringly oversimplified assumptions in order to make sweeping and provocative conclusions about fields they know very little about. This is a modern form of “economic imperialism” in the realm of the intellect. Almost

The purpose of this essay is to discuss and celebrate the life and work of one of the great creative minds of our century. Ludwig von Mises was born on September 29, 1881, in the city of Lemberg (now Lvov), in Galicia, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. His father, Arthur Edler von Mises, a Viennese construction engineer working for the Austrian

This essay was originally published in The Foundations of Modern Austrian Economics , edited by Edwin Dolan (Kansas City: Sheed and Ward, 1976), pp. 52–74. Introduction The most notable development in the historiography of the Austrian school in the post-World War II era has been the drastic reevaluation of what might be called its prehistory and,

The first successful settlement in New England was something of an accident. By 1617 the Pilgrims had determined to leave the Netherlands, where their youth were supposedly being corrupted by the “licentiousness” of even the Calvinist Dutch, who, for example, persisted in enjoying the Sabbath as a holiday rather than bearing it as a penance.

In the midst of nationwide prosperity, some economic and social problems keep nagging at the public. All over the country, they take the same form. What are they? Traffic congestion, inadequate roads, overcrowded schools, juvenile delinquency, water shortages. Such matters have proven troublesome in many ways; above all, they seem to breed