Rothbard on the Economics of Crime
Laurent Carnis describes Rothbard on the Economics of Crime at the 2003 Austrian Scholars Conference.
Laurent Carnis describes Rothbard on the Economics of Crime at the 2003 Austrian Scholars Conference.
Recorded at the Reassessing the Presidency seminar; March 2004. (44:14)
Boom, Bust, and the Future (19:39) January 18-19, 2002
Recorded at the Reassessing the Presidency seminar; March 2004. (27:02)
Recorded at Mises University 2003.
The role of the intellectual is a perennial question. Why do they act the way they do? Why are they hostile to the free market? Is the state really virtuous and the market really vicious? Mises thought the anti-capitalist mentality was rooted in envy. He also thought our entire culture was soaked in contempt for money-making.
Mises was quite clear on the dividing line between psychology and praxeology: Psychology deals with theories to explain why people choose certain ends, or how people will act in certain settings. Praxeology, on the other hand, deals with the logical implications of the fact that people have ends and the fact that they act to achieve them. Robert Murphy explains.