Biographies

It is not uncommon to see mainstream journalists accused of not bothering to read Hayek before they sit down to write about him.

A triumphant movement of Adam Smith disciples really begins only with Dugald Stewart.

Ludwig von Mises opined in the 1920s that Bastiat’s “critique of all protectionist and related tendencies is even today unsurpassed. The protectionists and interventionists have not been able to advance a single word in pertinent and objective rejoinder.”

Bellikoth Ragunath Shenoy was born in 1905 in the village of Bellikoth, near Mangalore, in the southern Indian state of Karnataka. He became a hugely influential proponent of Hayekian theory and policy. He is sadly neglected today.

The American empire bestrides the globe, leaving destruction and poverty in its wake.

She had loved working with and for Albert Jay Nock. She had learned so much from him.

Anyone in the freedom movement owes a debt to Isabel Paterson. She was brilliant, productive, tenacious, and complicated. Professor Cox's work is worthy of his subject.

Libertarian science-fiction fans under 40 are probably at least a little unclear on just who or what the Futurians were.

Delivered to Mises Institute summer fellows on 14 June 2011. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.

He is the kind of politician even an anarchocapitalist could love.