Articles related to privatized roads etc. recently posted on WalterBlock.com : “Road Socialism,” International Journal of Value-Based Management , 9 (1996): 195-207 “Compromising the Uncompromisable: Speed Limits, Parades, Cigarettes,” Asian Economic Review , Vol. 40, No. 1 (April 1998): pp. 15-29 “Theories of Highway Safety,” Transportation
Concerning Mises and the opera , I once said, perhaps even at a formal Mises event, as a joke, that I oppose all government intervention, except that the govt should force everyone to read Man, Economy and State . I was trying to show what a moderate I was. I’ll bet that if it turns out that Mises said what is claimed he said about opera, it was
I have put together a memo to students interested in the Austrian School who are considering a PhD in economics. It addresses the question of where to go and who to study with once you are there. Granting that there is no perfect program, there are many options available. Here is my memo . Please email me with suggestions or
Dear Colleagues: We owe it to our students to give them the most full and accurate information we have about phd programs. Don’t get angry with me if I’ve been unjust to your school, or ignored it altogether. My info is only as good as what I’ve been given; please correct any errors and omissions in what appears below. I’m limiting this to phd
Here is an email I received from Scott Flaherty . It includes a range of interesting objections to the idea of getting rid of the state monopoly on law. Maybe Rothbardian-Misesians of the world would like to have a crack at them. “During our advocacy for the privatization of law, we have come across several objections which I would like to share
My memo on graduate schools and Austrian economics has been update, and I’ve also worked on another memo that concerns other social sciences: Economics in Graduate School Social Sciences in Graduate School. Both are permanent links from the fellowship page
At Freedom Fest, Walter Block was interviewed by CSPAN’s Book TV to discuss his new book Space Capitalism: How Humans Will Colonize Planets, Moons, and Asteroids. Click here to watch Dr. Block make the case for privatizing the final
I first met Larry Moss in 1966. He was a first year economics graduate student at Columbia University; I was one year ahead of him there, in my second year. It soon became clear that we were on the same wavelength as far as political economy was concerned; he and I were part of a small band of free enterprisers at Columbia, surrounded by a bunch
I regard Grove City College and Loyola University New Orleans as the best two places in the U.S., heck, on the entire planet, for young people interested in an Austro libertarian undergraduate education, where cultural Marxism will not be shoved down their throats. Or, rather, where this will be minimized, compared to other colleges. Both are very
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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.
