World History

Did the EU bring free trade to Europe? Not at all, says Terry Arthur. The heyday of free trade was the 100 years between the Napoleonic Wars and World War 1.

For all the talk about the triumph of capitalism, write J. Stromberg and J. Tucker, the free market has few friends in politics or the world of ideas. Thus do the writings Murray Rothbard, the leading defender of the market economy of his generation, still shock and clarify.

Tzvetan Todorov’s career as a writer has taken  a surprising course. A Bulgarian long resident in France, he acquired an international reputation as a structuralist literary critic.

Gertrude Himmelfarb is an intellectual historian of great distinction. She has specialized in British nineteenth-century history; and her book on Lord Acton, her study of nineteenth-century thought on poverty,

Presented as part of the Mises Institute’s Summer Seminar Series in Auburn, Alabama, on 31 May 2004.

Recorded 15 October 1988.

Grant Nülle discusses a form of outsourcing that is unproductive, costly, and warlike.

Recorded in 1971.

The first World War might also be called the war that never ends, writes Ralph Raico.

From the Libertarian Heritage Series, sponsored by the Center for Libertarian Studies. Recorded on October 16, 1981.