Biographies

What inspires us about the life of Mises, writes Lew Rockwell, is not his victimhood but his triumph over evil.

This year marks the 100th anniversary of Ayn Rand's birth. Her books sold in the millions and were most effective in transforming a generation of readers into ardent anti-communists and strong capitalists.

Lew Rockwell visits Justin Raimondo's great biography of the master thinker.

Recorded at the 2005 Austrian Scholars Conference, Mises Institute, Auburn, Alabama.

Biographical remarks about Lachmann (1906-1990). Then, Lachmann describes Austrian economics as being subjectivism (individual human action), a certain attitude to time (the future is unknowable), and a distrust of macroeconomic entities (they exist, but Austrians look at macro as mechanistic).

Was George Stigler sympathetic to the Austrian school? Lachmann doesn’t think so because Stigler was a favorite student of Knight. Austrians should have dealt with Keynes, instead they quarreled with Knight.

What policies do Austrians pursue? Those that favor the market.

New in the Ward and Massey Libraries, among 25,000 titles. Lord Robbins, Autobiography of an Economist (London: MacMillan, St.

Recorded at the Austrian Economics and Financial Markets conference at The Venetian Hotel Resort Casino, Las Vegas, 02-19-2005

Rothbard was the leading student of Ludwig von Mises, an innovator in Austrian economics and libertarian political theory, and the intellectual inspiration for the Mises Institute from its founding in 1982 until his death.