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The professors of tomorrow can either be free to think, research, write, and publish, without interference by the state or its proxies, or they risk becoming what Barzun calls commissars with PhDs.

Recorded at the Austrian Economics and Financial Markets conference at The Venetian Hotel Resort Casino, Las Vegas, 02-18-2005

Recorded 15 January 2005 at The Trouble with Taxation Conference, Charlottesville, Virginia.

Thomas DiLorenzo discusses his book How Capitalism Saved America - The Untold History of Our Country from the Pilgrims to the Present at a

Menger's Principles of Economics is a remarkable book, writes Gil Guillory. Most of what is found in the great systematic treatises by Mises and Rothbard is treated in almost precisely the same way as Menger treated them in 1871.

Chris Westley asks what Shel Silverstein really meant to say with his book The Giving Tree. It is bad economics leading to a dangerous political bent.

Two books have become almost cult classics among the academic left, and both reveal shocking ignorance of the most elementary level of economic logic. Thomas DiLorenzo explains.

Krassimir Petrov, an alumnus of Mises Institute programs, presents China&#

Historians are fond of saying that the Progressive Era ended at the end of World War I, writes William Anderson. 

Ideological factors, especially comparative religions, are considered. Until 1500, China was the most developed region on the globe. Confucianism has no promise of an afterlife. There are no miracles for them. They are realistic and rational. Confucius is not a god or prophet. He is revered as a great teacher. His teachings are compatible with capitalism.