Why Does Inequality Matter?by T.M. Scanlon Oxford University Press,2018, 170 pp. T.M. Scanlon, who taught philosophy for many years at Princeton and Harvard, is among the leading ethical and political thinkers of the past fifty years or so. Though far from a libertarian, he takes libertarian views with terrific seriousness and has striven to react […]
Anatomy of Liberty in Don Quijote de la Mancha: Religious Beliefs, Feminism, Slavery, Politics, and Economics in the First Modern Uniqueby Eric Clifford GrafLanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2021, 290 pp. Abstract: Anatomy of Liberty in Don Quijote de la Mancha: Religion, Feminism, Slavery, Politics, and Economics in the First Modern Novel is Eric Clifford Graf’s […]
By: Gary D. Barnett “The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are rather efficient in every wickedness.” ~ Joseph Conrad, Under Western Eyes pt. 2, ch. 4 (1911 ) It is not just difficult to comprehend, but nearly difficult to think, that only a little portion of mankind can […]
Robert Luddygave a lecturein sorely missed out on 2019 entitled “Henry Hazlitt’s Long-Term Economic Thinking: Foundation of Entrepreneurial Excellence.” Throughout his talk, it’s clear that Hazlitt has had an extensive effect on Luddy– an entrepreneur who’s displayed quality for decades. How is it that Luddy personifies success? One possible explanation is that he overlooks the […]
Purchasing Submission: Conditions, Power, and Libertyby Philip HamburgerHarvard University Press, 2021, 320 pp. Philip Hamburger has actually made a revolutionary contribution to American constitutional law. He shows that what is frequently regarded as a narrow topic, “unconstitutional conditions,” of interest only to specialists, remains in fact essential to comprehending our contemporary system of government and […]
Yuri Nicholas Maltsev is an Austrian school economist and economic historian from Tatarstan. He earned his BA and MA degrees from Moscow State University and PhD in labor economics at the Institute of Labor Research in Moscow. Before defecting to the United States in 1989, he was a member of a senior Soviet economics team […]
1. Human history can be viewed from many angles. One of them is to see it as a struggle for power and domination, as a struggle for freedom and against oppression, as a struggle of good against evil. That is how Karl Marx (1818–83) saw it, and Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973) judged similarly. Mises wrote: […]
By: Gary D. Barnett “No government wants their citizens to be well informed, for when the citizens are well informed and begin believing on their own, federal governments will have absolutely nothing to do, hence the extremely principle of government will disappear from the face of earth. The extremely presence of government or state is […]
Critical race theory (CRT) has actually become the cultural wedge concern of 2021. An essential question is what will be CRT’s result on the future of freedom. Since CRT assumes a finite financial pie and presumes all economic interactions as zero-sum, the continuing adoption of CRT in American society will necessarily lead the United States […]
The Important Austrian EconomicsChristopher J. Coyne and Peter J. BoettkeVancouver: Fraser Institute, 2020, 68 pp. David Gordon (dgordon@mises.org) is a senior fellow at the Mises Institute and editor of the Journal of Libertarian Researches. Christopher Coyne and Peter Boettke, both teachers of economics at George Mason University, say, “The function of this book is to […]
