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.
READ MOREBorn on a Tennessee farm 100 years ago on October 3, Buchanan came of age when the ideas of John Maynard Keynes reached their zenith among economists.
READ MORE“History and human progress are driven far more by ordinary people doing sometimes extraordinary things than by special people with a unique destiny.” ~ Stephen Davies
READ MOREEconomist Richard Ebeling reflects on his life and career, learning from and being colleagues with many of the greats, from Rand to Hayek to Morgenstern to Rothbard.
READ MOREThe real story of anarchy – life without the state – is not one of chaos but the opposite: our failing as a civilization is that we probably have an overly competent propensity to create social systems of control from which we end up having to rebel from time to time.
READ MOREWhen was the last time vast numbers of people commonly celebrated a domestic achievement of government? You have to go back a half century to the first moon landing.
READ MORECoercive policies extended beyond eugenic sterilization, forced and voluntary.
READ MOREIf enough people discover and rediscover the timeless truths in the pages of Human Action, the ideas of Ludwig von Mises may well assist us in stemming the growing tide toward an even larger leviathan state that dangerously looms in front of us.
READ MOREDeirdre Nansen McCloskey is a one-woman university, a polymath’s polymath in an age of ever-increasing academic specialization. She has done ground-breaking work across several fields, and her academic appointments show it.
READ MOREIn fact, inequality studies have been a mainstay of the discipline since at least 1948.
READ MOREWe must have the confidence that freedom is both good in itself and need not be compromised in the face of asserted collectivist dangers abroad or the challenges to liberty here at home.
READ MOREMost of the tragedies – such as the Franklin expedition – were publicly funded.
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