World History

Under what law should the heads of governments be tried? Lew Rockwell writes that if they are tried according to every-day moral law, they would all be in big trouble.

Were the barbarians more beneficent than the Romans? A couple of Englishmen are trying to convince you that this is so.

In a peculiar way, writes Paul Trescott, the underclass are subsidized by our prosperous society.

In a reply to a recent mises.org weblog posting someone posted a challenge- Would anyone be so k

William Anderson presents the Henry Hazlitt Memorial Lecture: An Austrian Analysis of th

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I consider it as a very good sign that, while 50 years ago, practically nobody in the world had the courage to say anything in favor of a free economy, we have now, at least in some of the advanced countries of the world, institutions that are centers for the propagation of a free economy.

This talk was delivered to the Auburn University Libertarians on February 16, 2006.

We are living through a revolutionary moment, seeing the collapse of socialism at the end of the Twentieth Century.  Socialism lost its moral legitimacy. The force of modern technology required markets.

Richard Cantillon was quite Misesian before Mises. He wrote of utility theory and the entrepreneur’s uncertainty in the 1970s. Cantillon was a great money practitioner. He became a bank and banker to the Jacobite Stuart line and to John Law who launched paper money inflation.