Harry Potter and Walter Block’s decline to the state.
Walter Block’s recent thread “I blew my chance to be on the payroll with every
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Memorandum on Catholicism, Protestantism, and Capitalism
In this February 1957 memo, Rothbard sets down some thoughts on the Aristotelian background of marginal utility and Austrian economic theory.
Readings on Ethics and Capitalism, Part I: Catholicism
In this unpublished memo to the Volcker Fund in May 1960, Rothbard discusses some of the enormous differences among Catholics on political and economic questions.
Hyperinflation and Hyperreality: Thomas Mann in Light of Austrian Economics
Decisively refuted by the facts of economic life, Marxism has been forced to retreat to the one place in the academy where empirical reality seems to carry no weight in an argument: the humanities departments.
Bring Back the Breakfast Drink
Everyone knows the rule: drink no liquor before noon. How insufferable such advice is! It has caused morning drinkers to hide their habits, deny them when confronted, and otherwise feel like they are doing something wrong or immoral or socially intolerable, a combination which leads to other forms of pathology.
Another Take on a Mises Song
At the Mises University this year, there will be another performance of “Mises: The Musical“
The Anti-Capitalism of Batman Begins
Pro-market movies seem atypical for Hollywood, and a thoughtful summer blockbuster seems almost an oxymoron.
The Myth of the Cell-Phone Addiction
Pundits and bloggers are addicted to decrying the supposed cell-phone addiction of Americans, writes Jeffrey Tucker. Actually, there is a rational explanation for why we observe so much cell-phone yammer and why we find it so alarming.
