Biographies

Gary Becker passed away on May 4, 2014 at age 83.

The Henry Hazlitt Memorial Lecture, sponsored by James Rodney.

Spencer asked: “How could the pursuit of trade, which is voluntary, sit well with the practice of militarism?”

"It turns out that Taft was right on every question all the way from inflation to the terrible demoralization of the troops.”

Once I understood the fundamental choice was between laissez-faire and statism, it was clear: there was no “third way.”

Mises and Schumpeter are the most famous economists trained by the older Austrian School.

The James E. Kluttz Lecture, presented at the 2012 Mises Institute Supporters Summit.

Mary Sennholz, wife of Austrian economist Hans Sennholz and friend of Margit and Ludwig von Mises, recently spoke about her long career as a writer and editor, and as a friend and colleague of many other giants of the Austrian School. We hope her next project is a biography of her husband, Hans.

Chadwick believed in incentive-based social reform. He also wrote about moral hazard problems, anticipating many insights of contemporary economics.

It was Mises's misfortune that during his life his economic and political ideas were so out of fashion. But, his legacy is lasting and strong.