Today would have been MNR’s 80th, as mentioned here and here . I just happened to be going through an archive of old issues of the Free Market today and found this article by Lew Rockwell for Rothbard’s 60th: March Is Rothbard Month by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. On March 1st in New York City, through the generosity of Mr. Robert D. Kephart, the
From PrisonPlanet.com : Republican Congressman Predicts Bush Impeachment Says US close to dictatorship Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com | March 3 2006 Republican Congressman Ron Paul has gone on record with his prediction that the impeachment of George W. Bush is right around the corner but warned that in the meantime the US was slipping
Murray Rothbard was always so gentle in his disagreement with his mentor, Ludwig von Mises. They disagreed on natural rights; they disagreed on the necessity of the State; and they disagreed on foreign policy (based, I suspect, on disagreements #1 and #2) What might seem at first to be the least significant is (4) their disagreement on the best
Since Lew Rockwell has blogged here about the Nobel Peace Prize, and Jeffrey Tucker and others ( 1 , 2 , 3 ) have blogged about the so-called Nobel Prize in Economics, I thought I’d take the opportunity to point out, once again, that these two prizes do not come from the same foundation. In his will, the Swedish capitalist Alfred Nobel
11/9/06 Ted Roberts 2101 Aftonbrae Dr. Huntsville, AL 35803 Recently, I had a stimulating discussion with the IRS about some bonds which matured in 2004. The discussion had to do with the fact that X dollars worth of bond repayment was NOT, as my IRS friends insisted, a profit demanding capital gain taxes. It was simply a return of my loan of
Statesmanship and Self-government The Colonial System Colonial Trade versus Free Trade American Principles The great sociologist William Graham Sumner explains how the imperialist wars result in the very opposite of their stated intentions. In this 1899 speech, he demonstrated how the ideals of the US were in danger of being displaced by the
What do Charles Tomlinson’s article, ‘The Myth of the Tree Shortage’ and Christopher Westley’s blog thread, ‘Digital TV is a Civil Right ‘ have in common? Both timber and radio spectrum are scarce resources that have been managed by government ownership and ‘private’ licensing. In both cases, government management has led to misallocation, poor
Wally Conger posted this to his blog today: Until Ralph Raico completes his definitive book on classical liberalism, his ten-lecture Mises Institute course from Summer 2003, History: The Struggle for Liberty , will stand as his greatest tribute to freedom. He traces the roots of liberalism and its first volleys against the State to the “Dark Ages”
Murray Rothbard gave a lecture at Polytechnic University in the 1970s on the economics of labor and labor regulation. I assume it was part of his regular teaching duties for basic economics. You can download the audio file here. Two of my favorite-ever Rothbard quotes are in that one lecture, and I can’t find them written out anywhere, so I’ve
Ivan Eland, Director of the Center on Peace & Liberty at The Independent Institute, writes in a recent article : [I]s the conventional wisdom correct that the United States needs to exchange blood for oil? Many economists don’t think so. Before the first Gulf War, two Nobel laureates in economics — Milton Friedman on the right and James Tobin on
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