The Impossibility of Limited Government: The Prospects for a Second American Revolution
Recorded at the Reassessing the Presidency seminar; March 2004. (47:26)
Political Theory
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The History of Taxation
Charles Adams is a rare tax historian who leads us back to Greeks and Romans and the history of liberty. The Battle of Marathon was critical for Greek civilization to seize control of Western Civilization. The Greeks had no direct taxation, just indirect. This is what fostered liberty.
A Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Human Spirit: The Luddites Revisited
Butler Shaffer does a Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Human Spirit: The Luddites Revisited at the 2003 Austrian Scholars Conference.
William McKinley: Architect of the American Empire
Recorded at the Reassessing the Presidency seminar; March 2004. (30:28)
Rothbard on the Economics of Crime
Laurent Carnis describes Rothbard on the Economics of Crime at the 2003 Austrian Scholars Conference.
The Politics of Recession
Recorded at the 2003 Supporters Summit: Prosperty, War, and Depression.
(26:24)
Colonial America and the American Revolution
Albion’s Seed is a great book about the four migration folkways into the colonies from Great Britain during 1629 through 1775. The groups had many characteristics in common which may be what made future union possible, but the groups were also different. Puritans hated Quakers. Everybody hated Catholics. The competing regional cultures created quite a laissez-faire outcome between the community-based groups and more individualistic groups.
