When Oswald Spengler, in one of his minor books, scornfully characterized German classical liberalism as “a bit of the spirit of England on German soil,” he was merely displaying the willful blindness of the school of militaristic-statist German historians, who refused to acknowledge as a true compatriot any thinker who did not form part of the
In 1900 Churchill began the career he was evidently fated for. His background—the grandson of a duke and son of a famous Tory politician—got him into the House of Commons as a Conservative. At first he seemed to be distinguished only by his restless ambition, remarkable even in parliamentary ranks. But in 1904, he crossed the floor to the
I attended Roger Garrison’s lecture on the Austrian theory of the business cycle at the LSE. The auditorium was packed, probably 250-300 in the audience. To my mind, Roger’s presentation was nothing short of brilliant. Poised, witty, yet unremitting in his calm reasoning, he showed how this “oddball,” out of the mainstream theory is by far
Writes Alberto Mingardi, former summer fellow at the Mises Institute: “This was published yesterday by the Wall Street Journal Europe . I thought you may be interested in reading it.” *** Italy’s Tyranny of Labor Protection Alberto Mingardi French public sector workers are dreaming up new schemes for disrupting daily life, while unions in Britain,
[This essay originally appeared as “The Theory of Economic Development and the European Miracle” in The Collapse of Development Planning , edited by Peter J. Boettke.] Among writers on economic development, P.T. Bauer is noted both for the depth of his historical knowledge, and for his insistence on the indispensability of historical studies in
These are boom times for histories of World War I. Like its sequel, though to a lesser degree, it seems to be the war that never ends. Works keep appearing on issues once considered settled, such as the “Belgian atrocities” and the reputation of commanders like Douglas Haig. Last year, Cambridge published a collection of 500-plus pages on one of
More troubling news from the regime that we were so assured would bring all good things to Ukraine. So that’s 3 for 3: corruption, Socialism , bankruptcy .
From my 1980 article, which seems oddly relevant today: “Libertarians are not ‘against’ tradition. But we make certain elementary distinctions. It is time conservatives like van den Haag began doing likewise – starting with the distinction between the traditions that mankind has voluntarily generated and preserved, and those stemming from
News item: “Britain is to become the first country in the world where the movements of all vehicles on the roads are recorded. A new national surveillance system will hold the records for at least two
I’m would like to add my voice to the celebration over the publication of Mises: The Last Knight of Liberalism . It is a magnificent work of scholarship, not only definitive on Mises’s life and works, but also brilliantly delineating the Vienna of the time, the development of the Austrian school, the place of other thinkers like Hayek, and Mises’s
What is the Mises Institute?
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.