Biographies

The eminent Austrian economist Israel M. Kirzner turns 83 today.

It's hard to believe it's been 30 years since Lew founded the Institute, working from his dining room table.

John Kenneth Galbraith is increasingly perceived as a misunderstood thinker whose insights were ahead of their time and whose work was too hastily dismissed.

Does our attitude toward elections prove that we are politically ignorant, shiftless, irresponsible, and get no better government than we deserve?

Vlad Tepes III, the man who would become the inspiration for Count Dracula, was one of the most atrocious and cruel tyrants in history.

The real legacy of Cesar Chavez is negative: forget the charisma and the hype and learn some economics.

The key step in secularizing dialectic theology, and thus in paving the way for Marxism, was taken by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831).

No one who met Jim Sadowsky could ever forget him.

Ronald Hamowy was a strong Rothbardian in his political views, and was a member of the Circle Bastiat.

No reader of these essays can fail to note one respect in which Leland Yeager resembles two quintessential Austrian economists, Mises and Rothbard.