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[Composed for the occasion of Ludwig von Mises’s 90th birthday.]   Unquestionably the most significant and challenging development in the historiography of science in the last decade is the theory of Thomas S. Kuhn. Without defending Kuhn’s questionable subjectivist and relativistic philosophy, his contribution is a brilliant sociological insight

“Human action, unlike the movement of stones, is motivated.” The mathematical method, like so many other fallacies, has entered and dominated present-day economic thought because of the pervading epistemology of positivism. Positivism is essentially an interpretation of the methodology of physics ballooned into a general theory of knowledge for

  “O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason.” – Shakespeare, Julius Caesar [As published in the August, 1989, issue of The American Libertarian] The recent death of Abbie Hoffman has swiftly transformed the long-forgotten clown of the New Left into a veritable publishing industry. As one long-time member of that

[This article was originally published in Outside Looking In: Critiques of American Policies and Institutions, Left and Right . New York: Harper and Row, 1972, pp. 60-74. Reprinted in The Logic of Action Two: Applications and Criticism from the Austrian School . Glos, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 1997, pp. 185-199.]   From the very first we

Marx as Millennial Communist Reabsorption Theology Hegel as Pantheist Reabsorptionist Communism as the Kingdom of God on Earth: From Joachim to Müntzer The Takeover of Münster The Reappearance of Communism in the French Revolution The Burgeoning of Communism in the 1830s and 1840s Karl Marx: Apocalyptic Reabsorptionist Communist Notes   Time

[First published in Continuum, Summer 1964, pp . 220–231]   In the spate of recent books and articles on the burgeoning conservative movement, little has been said of its governing ideas and its intellectual leadership. Instead, attention has been centered on the mass phenomena of the right wing: the Billy James Hargises, the Birchers, the various

[This article originally appeared in Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics , Vol. 2, No. 3 (Fall 1999), pp. 3–51. It is also reprinted in A History of Money and Banking in the United States and as a monograph .] The Progressive Movement Unhappiness with the National Banking System The Beginnings of the “Reform” Movement: The Indianapolis

From Chapter 2 of The Logic of Action II .

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Much is heard these days of the distinction between human rights and property rights, and many who claim to champion the one turn with scorn upon any defender of the other. They fail to see that property rights, far from being in conflict, are in fact the most basic of all human rights. The human right of every man to his own life implies the