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My  most recent post  featured links to a radio episode and magazine article that briefly mentioned the plight of citizens as it related to nutrition after the Castro Revolution. If you are interested in learning more about the consequences of socialism for Cuba I recommend the following: This is an article by one of my favorite conservative

What were the three greatest successes of the revolution? Education, health, and defense. What were the three greatest failures? Breakfast, lunch, and dinner. — Cuban food joke The radio program The Splendid Table recently featured a story about the rediscovery of good food in Cuba. One of the segments featured an interview with writer Tamar Adler

Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 18, no. 4 (Winter 2015): 568–571 Edward W. Younkins has made a very welcome contribution to business and economic education with his book Exploring Capitalist Fiction . In this book he documents how various ideas about business, commerce, and economics have been communicated through literature, plays, and

“I champion an economic order ruled by free prices and markets...the only economic order compatible with human freedom.” Wilhelm Röpke died on this date fifty years ago. He was an excellent economist thoroughly grounded in a realistic view of human action and who, therefore, continually fought against the dehumanizing effects of Keynesian and

In September 1993, President Bill Clinton reassured his radio audience that “if you work hard and play by the rules, you’ll be rewarded with a good life for yourself and a better chance for your children.” Picking up that theme over eighteen years later, President Barack Obama affirmed that “Americans who work hard and play by the rules every day

In Ludwig von Mises’s intellectual testament, Memoirs, he discusses his life and work in Europe prior to 1940. In that book he reveals that he first read Carl Menger’s Principles of Economics around Christmastime in 1903. “It was through this book,” Mises relates, “that I became an economist.” Before that, in his first years at the University of