Friedrich Hayek and American Science Fiction
When Hayek came into Mises’s employ, he favored the democratic-socialist politics of Wieser, his mentor at the university.
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Murray, My Intellectual Mentor
It was nearly 40 years ago that Murray Rothbard changed my life. I was then a PhD candidate in economics at the New School for Social Research in downtown Manhattan, while also teaching principles courses at a local university. And I was rapidly losing interest in the whole subject.
Work in Progress: A Boy and His Mom
My mom's secret was that no matter what task she tackled, she worked very fast.
Henry David Thoreau
If you want to know Thoreau, you had better pass up the diagnosticians and get down to reading Thoreau himself, writes Frank Chodorov (1887–1966).
The Disarming Honesty of Henry David Thoreau
If you want to know Thoreau, you had better pass up the diagnosticians and get down to reading Thoreau himself.
Why Bastiat Is Still Great
If we were to take the greatest economists from all ages and judge them on the basis of their theoretical rigor, their influence on economic education, and their impact in support of the free-market economy, then Frédéric Bastiat would be at the top of the list.
Stephen Pearl Andrews’s Fleeting Contribution to Anarchist Thought
Andrews seems to have been one of those people whose mind is so open that all his brains fall out.
A Bolshevik Love Story
Bukharin was simply one of millions, mostly peasants, who would die in a reign of terror.
Vienna Before the Austrian School
To young Menger, the cityscape still appeared as that of “old Vienna”: enclosed on three sides by a city wall and moat, writes Eugen-Ma
