Archive for Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr
What We Know, When We Know it
Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., is president of the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama. To outsiders, mainstream economics can look strange and obscure, or even silly and pointless. The mathematical techniques that dominate most academic journals can be intimidating in themselves. And they are all the more alarming since the subject matter of economics—people [...]
1May1997 | Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr | 0 comments | ContinuedCivil Rights Socialism
Mr. Rockwell is president of the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama. The Fabian Society of Britain believed in three central doctrines of political economy. First, every country must create its own form of socialism. Second, socialism imposed slowly is more permanent than the revolutionary form. and third, socialism is not likely to succeed [...]
1May1996 | Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr | 1 comment | ContinuedInsurance: True and False
Mr. Rockwell is president of the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama. The movie classic Double Indemnity tells the story of a couple’s attempt to commit murderous insurance fraud. Their plans were foiled through the investigation of a hard-bitten insurance executive. At the time, audiences were shocked that a middle- class couple would attempt [...]
1Apr1996 | Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr | 0 comments | ContinuedFree Market Economists: 400 Years Ago
Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., is president of the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama. Students of free enterprise usually trace the origins of pro-market thinking to Scottish professor Adam Smith (1723-90). This tendency to see Smith as the fountainhead of economics is reinforced among Americans because his famed book An Inquiry into the Nature [...]
1Sep1995 | Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr | 1 comment | ContinuedBook Review: Civil Wrongs: What Went Wrong With Affirmative Action by Steven Yates
ICS Press: San Francisco • 1994 • 256 pages • $22.95 "Sensitive" is the word people use to describe political rows over civil rights, an issue that mixes economics, social policy, and race. We know what we’re supposed to think: the "civil-rights struggle" was the most heroic political movement in American history. We are not, [...]
1Jun1995 | Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr | 1 comment | ContinuedHenry Hazlitt: Journalist of the Century
Mr. Rockwell is president of the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama. This speech was delivered at a Mises Institute Conference commemorating Henry Hazlitt, held on November 28, 1994, in New York City. Henry Stuart Hazlitt wrote brilliantly and presciently for more than eight decades on culture, government, economics, and political affairs. He warned [...]
1May1995 | Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr | 0 comments | ContinuedHow Government Makes Natural Disasters Worse
Mr. Rockwell is president of the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama. An earthquake or hurricane always generates an inspiring rush of private generosity. People are never more willing to help their neighbors than when they are casualties of nature. It’s also inspiring when, as after the Midwestern floods, the victims adapt to their [...]
1Jun1994 | Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr | 1 comment | ContinuedTo Repair The Culture, Free the Market
Mr. Rockwell is president of the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama. A much longer version of this article will appear in The Intercollegiate Review. Traditionalists and economic libertarians have more in common in the culture war than they might think, for capitalism helps create and sustain a conservative culture. The enemy, for all [...]
1Mar1994 | Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr | 0 comments | Continued-
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