Biographies

Featuring Daniel D’Amico, Jennifer Dirmeyer, Andrew Young, Vedran Vuk and Walter Block. Recorded on 5 November 2011.

Presented by David Gordon at the Mises Circle in New Orleans, 5 November 2011.

Murray Rothbard modified the famous dictum of Marx: he wished both to understand and change the world.

Americans will never reclaim the dream if presidents like Lincoln and Roosevelt are held up as examples of "great" presidents.

The Treasury needed someone who could clothe the bareness of financial heresy with a plausible nontransparent drapery. Mr. Keynes was taken into the British Treasury as its principal adviser, seated on the board of the Bank of England, and elevated to the peerage as Baron Keynes of Tilton.

Strigl's 1934 contribution to Austrian capital theory is brought to the English-speaking world for the first time.

Ludwig von Mises has safeguarded the foundations of a rational economic science.

My journey away from neoclassical epistemology began with my reading of works by F.A. Hayek.

Mises missed no opportunity, in private as well as in public, to proclaim his abhorrence of all forms of state intervention.

Ludwig von Mises was born in Lviv, but the specific place of his birth remained unknown.