The exact date escapes my memory but many will know it. Ludwig von Mises was to be the featured scholar at the Future of Freedom Conference at Long Beach State University. He would be introduced by Dirk Pearson, then going by the name Sky Deorious or something. The way I got to meet von Mises is that I came to be the designated driver to pick him
In a recent article critical of Robert Nozick’s book Anarchy, State, and Utopia , Samuel Scheffler argues that it is possible to give greater than libertarian scope to natural rights so that, contrary to Nozick’s conclusions, non-voluntary redistribution of income would be morally justified. Volume 2, Number 3 (1978) Machan, Tibor R. “Against
Insider trading per se is obtaining information from non-public sources and using it for purposes of enhancing one’s financial advantage. Is there anything unethical or morally wrong in this
Walter Block has penned a response to my paper in which I argue that there isn’t much more than a verbal difference between limited government (minarchist) and defense-insurance agency (anarchist) libertarians. Block disputes my thesis for one reason: He defines government as necessarily coercive. Volume 21, Number 1 (2007) Machan, Tibor R.
Back in the mid-’80s, I had a very brief stint as a civilian employee with the federal government of the USA. It was actually my second gig with the government, my first having been four years of military service in the U.S. Air Force. Both experiences taught me about a good deal, including public finance. Let’s start with that Air Force
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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.
