Paul Gottfried writes as follows: I’ve just reread Bob Higgs’s Schlarbaum Address , which is so BRILLIANT that it would require an entire book to answer the questions therein raised. Bob is absolutely correct that “liberal democratic” government is unmistakably oligarchic, that it continues to put its subjects in harm’s way, and that it milks
John Nash, who won the 1994 Nobel Prize in economics, praised the gold standard in a recent talk at Fordham. Here’s an excerpt from the news report: Nash said that various interest groups that subscribe to Keynesian, or short-term, economic theories have sold the public on the notion that inflation is acceptable or that “bad money is better than
From Mary Sennholz and Robert G. Anderson comes the very sad news of the death of Beth Hoffman, a brilliant libertarian. I got to know Beth’s competence and dedication when we worked together at Hillsdale College. So I was not surprised that when she joined the staff at FEE, she became – for more than 30 years – the heart and soul of the place,
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The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard.
Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.