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Organized Crime: The Unvarnished Truth About Government
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Author: Thomas J. DiLorenzo
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Category: U.S. Economy, U.S. History
Politics and thieves, coercion and regulation, fascism and the Fed, centralization and liberty, workers and unions, trade and freedom, free-market achievements and government disasters in American history — this book covers it all! Organized Crime collection of essays in the tradition of Austrian political economy —a combination of applied
Hamilton’s Curse
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Author: Thomas J. DiLorenzo
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Category: Big Government, U.S. History
Court historians have long praised the glories of Alexander Hamilton as the greatest of the founding fathers. This view is back in vogue as U.S. economic policy becomes ever more statist. In this work, Professor Thomas DiLorenzo provides the other view. He shows that Hamilton is the architect of most of today’s failed economic policies:
Lincoln Unmasked
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Author: Thomas J. DiLorenzo
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Category: U.S. History
DiLorenzo discusses how the Lincoln cult came into being and came to dominate national politics--and how completely far from the truth they have strayed. They have buried the reality of who he was and what he did in the service of a mythical civic ethos that celebrates devotion to the central state above all else. They say that Lincoln struck a
How Capitalism Saved America
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Author: Thomas J. DiLorenzo
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Category: Media and Culture, U.S. Economy, U.S. History
Thomas DiLorenzo has a marvelous analytical talent and a knack for drawing the reader’s attention to the material that matters. His new book employs this talent in defense of the whole history of free enterprise in America. How long have we waited for a book like this? A very long time. It is called  How Capitalism Saved America: The Untold
The Real Lincoln
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Author: Thomas J. DiLorenzo
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Category: U.S. History
In this book, Thomas DiLorenzo calls for a complete rethinking of a central icon of American historiography. He looks at the actions and legacy of Abe Lincoln from an economics point of view to show that Lincoln’s main interest was not in opposing slavery but in advancing mercantilism, inflationism, and government spending: the “American system”
Axis of Evil: America’s Three Worst Presidents
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Author: Thomas J. DiLorenzo
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Category: U.S. History
DiLorenzo, Thomas J., Axis of Evil: America’s Three Worst Presidents (Auburn, AL: Mises Institute, 2024). The Siena College Research Institute, the American Political Science Association, and C-SPAN all publish rankings of American presidents by “mainstream” historians, political scientists, and other “presidential experts.” Abraham Lincoln and
Property Rights, Civilization, and Their Enemies
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Author: Thomas J. DiLorenzo
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[This article is adapted from a lecture delivered at the Reno Mises Circle in Reno, Nevada. on May 20, 2023.] It is not an exaggeration to say that property rights are a prerequisite for civilization. As Ludwig von Mises wrote in The Free and Prosperous Commonwealth : Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the
Review: The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health
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Author: Thomas J. DiLorenzo
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In his must-read new book,  The Real Anthony Fauci , Robert F. Kennedy Jr. describes how journalist Liam Scheff chronicled Fauci’s “secretive experiments on hundreds of HIV-positive foster children at Incarnation Children’s Center (ICC) in New York City and numerous sister facilities in New York and six other states between 1988 and 2002” (p.
The Rise of Economic Fascism in America
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Author: Thomas J. DiLorenzo
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Category: Cronyism and Corporatism, U.S. History
When people hear the word “fascism” they naturally think of its ugly racism and anti-Semitism as practiced by the totalitarian regimes of Mussolini and Hitler. But there was also an economic policy component of fascism, known in Europe during the 1920s and ‘30s as “corporatism,” that was an essential ingredient of economic totalitarianism as
Why Everyone Should Read These Two Essays by Ludwig von Mises
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Author: Thomas J. DiLorenzo
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Category: Austrian Economics Overview, Interventionism
Like virtually all of the work of Ludwig von Mises, these two essays, his 1958 Liberty and Property  and his 1950 Middle-of-the-Road Policy Leads to Socialism  are timeless. They are as important now as they have ever been and will increase in relevance as the growth of government continues almost unabated. The growth of government constitutes an