Political Theory

The American government has transformed itself from “humanitarians with a guillotine” to “humanitarians with weapons of mass murder and destruction.”

From the session on “Secession: A Mainstay of Freedom,” presented at the Austrian Economics Research Conference.

From the session on “Foundations of Libertarian Political Philosophy,” presented at the Austrian Economics Research Conference.

From the session on “Studies in Business Cycles,” presented at the Austrian Economics Research Conference.

Part of the Authors Forum, presented at the Austrian Economics Research Conference.

From the session on “Monetary Theory and Policy,” presented at the Austrian Economics Research Conference.

Calvin Coolidge, on spending and taxation, was quite Rothbardian well before Rothbard. According to Amity Shlaes, “Coolidge didn’t favor tax cuts as a means to increase revenue or to buy off Democrats. He favored them because they took government, the people’s servant, out of the way of the people.”

A transcription of a wide-ranging lecture, full of insight as well as humor, by the great Austrian economist and social theorist Hans-Hermann Hoppe, discussing the state, anarchy, democracy, monarchy, crime, security, and more. Delivered at the 2009 Mises University.

The story of pork’s decline involves the usual suspects: special interest lobbying arms and the federal government’s 30+ years of war on dietary fat.

What is one to make of the president's diminishment of the causal connection between the productivity of individuals and the success of their pursuits?