Topic: History

Actually, the Gilded Age Was Awesome for Equality

– October 25, 2019

The invocation of the Gilded Age like a cheap political talking point is bad economics and bad economic history.

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Collectivist Revivalism and the New Attack on Liberty

– October 22, 2019

Liberty cannot be destroyed as long as they are any who hold it dear in their hearts, who share what they know and understand about it with others.

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Introduction to Farsi Edition of Human Action

– October 15, 2019

Now you own it. Learn from it. Return to it again and again. May it always be with us, widely circulated in every land and every language, forever.

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Why Is AIER Publishing Karl Marx?

– October 14, 2019

Reading the source helps you find the root errors and not get buffeted about by fake arguments that turn up on the news daily. In general, this task just granted me more confidence in a similar way that reading the right-Hegelians did.

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Introduction to The Best of Karl Marx

– October 14, 2019

To the modern economist directly grappling with Marx’s economic theories remains a necessary step for pursuing informed and rigorous engagement with their unavoidable political progeny.

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The Marginal Marginalist from Prague

– October 9, 2019

Cheers to Franz Cuhel, long dead, long forgotten, not even translated to English, and now not even mentioned by current historians of the Austrian School.

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Progressivism Is An Imposter

– October 8, 2019

We are nearly all socialists now, while not knowing it.

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Emergent Genius: The Case of Bill Evans

Emergent Genius: The Case of Bill Evans

– October 6, 2019

Great musical performance consists of at once learning all things and then forgetting all things to make something new. This is what Bill Evans did.

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Gresham's Law

Gresham’s Law Is Not the Reason for the Corruption of Democracy

– October 6, 2019

Gresham’s Law is not the reason why the malicious field of politics attracts particularly awful people.

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Impeachment at Home and Climate Hysteria Abroad

– October 1, 2019

Do we need another demonstration that politics is the problem and not the solution to human affairs?

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The Myth of Imminent Collapse

– September 30, 2019

Worries about civilizational collapses by the Thunbergs and Extinction Rebellions of the world are exaggerated. We are nowhere near the brink of disaster.

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Reasons for Hope

– September 30, 2019

The world would be a tiny bit less free and the economy faintly less productive without each of the many, mostly small, contributions to classical-liberal scholarship and to the sharing of liberal ideas with the public.

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