An Economic Analysis of Power
Michael Rozeff explains ways in which power comes to work its evil. A ruler is never as careful with public money as with his own.
World History
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10. Reparations
Libertarian punishment theory is two teeth for a tooth plus cost of capturing plus scaring if appropriate. It is part of reparations. It is necessary to find the rightful owner of property even if many generations have passed. But, the burden of proof of ownership gets harder.
Six Months that Changed the World
John V. Denson discusses the world-changing events that happened between January and June 1919: disastrous decisions that resulted in creating a platform for Hitler to rise in Germany, the Second World War, and beyond.
Eugen Richter and Late German Manchester Liberalism: A Reevaluation
Mark Skousen Saving the Depression: A New Look at World War II Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Paper Capture Plug-in
Natural Elites, Intellectuals, and the State
This monograph engages the long-running controversy about the origin of the state.
Karl Marx: Communist as Religious Eschatologist
Israel M. Kirzner The Economic Calculation Debate: Lessons for Austrians Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Paper Capture Plug-in
It’s Never Enough
The Group of Eight finance ministers will meet this week in Perthshire, Scotland, writes Joseph Potts, to address various weighty financial decisions that their governments have expropriated from the more-capable hands of their citizens.
Remembered Past: John Lukacs on History, Historians, and Historical Knowledge: A Reader, by Mark G. Malavasi and Jeffrey O. Nelson, eds.
John Lukacs, in his own estimation, is much more than an ordinary historian. In what he considers his most important book, Historical Consciousness, he elaborates "not a philosophy of history but its opposite:
Robert Nisbet and the Conservative Intellectual Tradition
Delivered as part of the Mises Institute’s Summer Seminar Series.
