I have taught at several institutions of higher learning in my life. My main motivation for doing so, apart from earning a living of course, is an attempt to “pass on the baton.” When I was a young pup, there were quite a few people who went out of their way to instill in me something very precious: an appreciation for free market economics and
John Gilmore on inflight activism, spam and sarongs : Q: You are not a great fan of copy protection. But how shall intellectual property holders commercially survive in an environment where perfect copies are a part of everyday life? A: I thought I knew that answer in 1989, but I wasn’t sure, so I started a business to see if I was right. Cygnus
Here is an interesting list of libertarian philosophers . Coda: what appeared in my inbox, which is blogged here, seemed to be only a helpful reference tool. In fact, and on closer look, it seems to be something else entirely, with conspicuous exclusions and plenty of other problems. If it is useful, use it; if not, toss
Milton Friedman reminds readers of Opinion Journal that he is still an education socialist. The separation of finance (public) and administration (private)? Imagine how that would system would affect, say, WalMart or Dell. At the least, it would require compulsory shopping laws—a correlary to the compulsory education that Friedman still believes
This is a tale of two economists, Larry Summers and Hans-Hermann Hoppe. They have much in common, in addition to their adherence to the dismal science. Each is quite prominent in his field. Summers was Treasury Secretary in the Clinton Administration, and is now President of Harvard. Hoppe is a professor of economics at the University of Nevada at
This long and fascinating piece by James Piereson, appearing in the WSJ, inadvertantly documents a hugely important shift: the move from foundation support for libertarianism in the 40s-60s to neoconservatism today. This has been as disastrous as it as been
There is this guy, Lew Rockwell, who writes regularly on these pages. I don’t know if you’ve noticed it or not, but the man is an extremist. Yes, I repeat that: an extremist! He has no sense of proportion, nor balance. Instead, he marks out the most extreme positions on any given subject, and tries to make them sound, horrors!, reasonable. The
the main problem I have with Hans on indifference is that he seems to let Nozick off the hook. Nozick says that in order to define a good, you’ve got to have indifference in economics, since a good is defined as that which with regard to all members of the class, we are indifferent between them. to say this in other words, if butter is a good,
(With assistance from Bill Barnett) I am perhaps one of the most heavily published of all Austro libertarians now active, at least in terms of refereed journals and law reviews (205, plus 32 forthcoming, for a total of 237 as of today), so these hints, below, might be of some use to you. At least they are based on a wealth of experience, garnered
What is the Mises Institute?
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.
